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Industries
Pharmacy
ARL Bio Pharma provides analytical and microbiological testing for compounding pharmacies, outsourcing facilities, and health-system pharmacies. Our laboratory partners with industry suppliers bringing excellence to the compounding industry.
Services Offered:
- Potency Determination
- BUD and Stability Studies
- Sterility
- Endotoxin
- Fungal
- Microbial Identification
- Microbial Enumeration Tests
- Tests for Specified Organisms
- Antimicrobial Effectiveness Testing
- Particulate Matter by Light Obscuration
- Particulate Matter by Microscopy
Raw Material
ARL Bio Pharma qualifies drug substances, excipients, and drug products to meet pharmacopeia specifications.
Services Offered:
- Identification by IR
- Identification by UV
- Specific Gravity
- Water – Methods 1a, 1b, 2 and 3
- Residual Solvents
- Melting Point / Melting Range
- Loss on Drying
- Residue on Ignition
- Assay – HPLC, UV, Titration
- Heavy Metals
- pH
- Viscosity
- USP / NF (United States Pharmacopeia) testing
- EP (European Pharmacopeia) testing
- JP (Japanese Pharmacopeia) testing
Pharmaceuticals
ARL provides full laboratory services for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Laboratory services include testing for New Drug Application (NDA), Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA), medical devices (510K) and over-the-counter products.
Services Offered:
- Stability Studies
- Compatibility Studies
- Raw Material Testing
- Dissolution Testing
- Microbial Identification
- Bioequivalence Studies
- Pre-clinical and Clinical Analytical Testing
Forensics
ARL Bio Pharma provides comprehensive services to solve challenging drug investigations. These services are unique and specialized in pharmaceutical, toxicological, regulatory support, and research and development.
Services Offered:
- Chemical Analysis
- Biological Analysis
- Drug Diversion Testing
- Complaint Sample Testing
- Product Contamination
- Litigation Support
- Patent Infringement
- Literature Research and Review
Industrial Hemp and CBD
ARL Bio Pharma tests industrial hemp and cannabidiol (CBD) to meet industry quality specifications.
- Potency Testing
- Pesticides
- Heavy Metals
- Microbiological Examination of Nonsterile Products: Tests for Specified Microorganisms <62>
- Microbiological Examination of Nonsterile Products: Microbial Enumeration Tests USP <61>
- Stability Studies
LATEST AROUND THE INDUSTRY
Growth Promotion Testing
Growth Promotion demonstrates that media used in environmental monitoring programs, media fills, or personnel qualification are capable of supporting microorganism growth.
Benefits of growth promotion testing:
- Reduces risk of false negative results if media does not support growth
- Reduces risk of false positive results if media is contaminated (negative control sample required)
- Ensures media used in environmental monitoring provides an accurate representation of environmental control in compounding areas
- Meets FDA and USP microbiological growth media requirements
- Verifies media vendor's certificate of analysis
ARL has a new submission form specific for "Growth Promotion" tests. This new form is a quick selection form for media types, organism tests, and incubation time and temperature.
Container-Closure Systems...
The container closure system for a drug product provides critical protection for stability and sterility. It consists of all components intended to seal and protect the package/delivery system and its contents. Container-closure integrity (CCI) is the ability of the system to keep contents in, and to keep harmful environmental contaminants out.
CCI testing (CCIT) detects leaks in the container closure system. A passing test result indicates the packaging system can maintain sterility and relevant physicochemical specifications. Three types of leaks that can be detected during CCIT include:
- entry of microorganisms
- escape of the product dosage form or entry of liquids or solids
- escape of nitrogen gas or entry of oxygen, water vapor, or air gases
In February 2008, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) introduced CCIT in lieu of sterility testing as a component of a stability written testing program for sterile products. A stability study measures the extent to which a product retains, within specified limits, and throughout its period of storage and use, the same properties and characteristics it possessed at the time of compounding. Sterility is a stability characteristic that should be conducted throughout a stability study to confirm a product's shelf life.