Weck Laboratories has expanded the suite of tests offered for contaminants in
food products including produce, fish tissue, pharmaceutical formulations,
nutritional supplements and raw materials.
Our advanced instrumentation that includes multiple units of triple
quadrupole LC/MS, triple quadrupole GC/MS and ICP-MS, combined with powerful
sample preparation instrumentation and techniques including microwave digestion,
Accelerated Solvent Extraction (ASE), Solid Phase Extraction (SPE), Solid Phase
Microextraction (SPME) and automated Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC) cleanup
provides the tools to perform a whole range of testing capabilities to detect
contamination on these products and verify compliance with current regulations.
In addition to our custom method development services, Weck Labs offers the
following validated tests:
- Elemental Impurities by ICP-MS USP <232>/<233>: This test determines trace
amounts of heavy metals on pharmaceutical, drug products and nutritional
supplements to establish compliance. Read more…
- Multi-Residue Pesticide Screen by GC-MS/MS: The analysis covers organochlorine,
organophosphorus, triazine and pyrethroid pesticides in liquid matrices—water,
juice, etc.—or solid matrices—produce, herbs, tablets, animal tissue, etc.
- Multi-Residue Pesticide Screen by LC/MS: this technique covers a very high
number of pesticides that are generally not amenable to analysis by traditional
techniques (GC or GC-MS). Our new state-of-the-art LC-MS/MS can screen for over
two hundred pesticides in many matrices.
- Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in food products: PAHs are analyzed by
triple quadrupole GC-MS/MS at very low levels in a variety of matrices,
including fish and plant tissues, and pharmaceutical formulations.
- Residual Solvents: Analysis of solvents in pharmaceutical products by USP <467>
is performed using headspace and GC/MS to detect the target solvents.
Additionally, this technique can identify unknown or non-target solvents in
pharmaceutical formulations.
- Cleaning Validation for production equipment at pharmaceutical facilities: this
test is performed by analyzing Total Organic Carbons on swabs from equipment.
- Microbiological Testing in juice and food products: Analysis of salmonella,
total coliforms, e. coli, fecal coliforms,
bacterial speciation, streptococcus and enterococcus.