Pharmaceutical analysis request [1]
Sciensano conducts several pharmaceutical analyses for governmental institutions. Including all analysis methods used for the quality check of regular medicines and for the characterisation of illegal medicines and health products.
Techniques for analysis of medicines are conductend under accreditation [2].
Medicines
active pharmaceutical ingredients (API)
- tests as stated in the European pharmacopee and USP
licensed medicines
- (U)HPLC (UV-Fluo-RI)
- UV/VIS spectroscopy
- IR
- uniformity of mass
- uniformity of content
- pH
- friability
- desintegration
- dissolution
- secability
- relative density
unlicensed medicines
- (U)HPLC (UV)
- UV/VIS spectroscopy
- IR
- uniformity of mass
- uniformity of content
- pH
- desintegration
- relative density
analysis of suspected illegal medicines
- GC-MS
- LC-MS (HRAM)
- LC-MS/MS
- IR
detection of medicines and illegal substances in dietray supplements
- GC-MS
- LC-MS (HRAM)
- LC-MS/MS
- IR
Cosmetics
allergic fragrances
- GC-MS
whitening agents (skin whitening products & teeth bleeching products)
- LC-MS (HRAM)
- GC-MS
conservatives
- HPLC-DAD
Medical devices
hyaluronic acid
- carbazole micro-assay
- ATR-IR
Sterility testing on illegal injectables
E-cigarettes
nicotine determination
- GC-MS
- LC-MS/MS
- UPLC-UV
flavour determination
- GC-MS
- LC-MS/MS
- UPLC-UV
determination of additives
- GC-MS
- LC-MS/MS
- UPLC-UV
Eric Deconinck [3] for more information and prices (only for governmental institutions).