Cosmetics and Healthcare Products
Industry
For more than 30 years, we have been analyzing your cosmetic products to ensure their compliance with the various standards (ISO, USP, EUP,...) or your own.
We work together intensively in order to shorten time and costs in the development of new products or in the improvement and optimization of existing ones.
You will find our support for all those tests, studies, technical advice or know-how transfer that you need for your business to grow and develop.
Some of our activities and services in these sectors would be:
Physicochemical Analysis
- Physicochemical parameters: humidity, density, viscosity, etc.
Determination of actives by chromatographic and spectrophotometric techniques:- Preservatives
- Solar filters
- Vitamins
- Determination of contaminants
- Heavy metals
- Ethylene oxide
- Residual solvents
- Formaldehyde
- 1,4-dioxane
- Parabens
- NIAS
- Development and validation of analytical methods (ISO 12787)
Microbiological Analysis
- Microbiological quality control in raw materials and final formulas:
- Total mesophilic aerobic bacterial count ISO 21149:2017
- Enumeration of yeasts and molds ISO 16212:2017
- Determination of Staphylococcus aureus ISO 22718:2016
- Determination of Candida albicans ISO 18416:2016
- Determination of Escherichia coli ISO 21150:2016
- Determination of Pseudomonas aeruginosa ISO 22717:2016
- Development and validation of microbiological tests
- Preservative System Efficacy Test (Challenge test) ISO 11930/2019 and Ph. Eur. 5.1.3 Efficacy of antimicrobial preservation
- Identification of microorganisms by:
- Advanced phenotypic methods: identification by MALDI-TOF MS (matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (maldi-tof) mass spectrometry (ms))
- Large staining, microscopy/classical phenotypic methods (biochemical galleries)
- Growth promotion of culture media Ph. Eur. 2.6.12
- Sterility Ph. Eur. 2.6.1
- Environmental and surface control ISO 14698 and NCF
Other Analysis
- Facility qualification: Environmental and surface control and cleaning validation
- ICH Q1a (R2) and ISO 18811 stability testing: Design, storage and/or analysis
- Migration studies
- Implementation of rapid microbiology analysis methods
- Sealing test - Self-sealing test (Ph. Eur. 3.2.9 Enclosure systems)
Biological Safety
- Skin irritation and in vitro sensitization
- Eye corrosion and irritation
- Genotoxicity