Support for the Pharmaceutical and Natural Health Products Industries

Investigative Science Incorporated can carry out these tests by Canadian standards (Spirit of GLP) and by international standards (OECD GLP). ISI has been registered to the ISO 9001 standard since 1996, is ISO 17025 compliant, and holds a Health Canada Establishment Licence for analysis of pharmaceuticals. We are also an accredited verifier for the Canadian ETV program. ISI provides many levels of scientific support for the drug and botanicals industries. These include:

• Desktop reviews of the literature
• Chemical analysis
• Characterization of unknowns
• Research
• Analytical method development
• Experimental design
• Management of multi-centre trials
• Provision of technical results to be used in support of applications to regulatory agencies - click here for new Canadian NHP regulations
• Finished product stability trials
• Preparation and characterization of primary standards
• Help choosing a good laboratory
• GMP Implementation
• Development of new QA/QC protocols and troubleshooting of existing QA/QC protocols for the detection / prevention of Toxic Chemical Substitutions

The technical support information provided by Investigative Science has been proven numerous times to be accepted by regulatory agencies, such as Health and Welfare Canada's Veterinary Drugs Directorate (formerly BVD). See our list of Natural Health Product testing and Veterinary Drug testing.