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Pharmaceutical & Cosmetic Testing

From your R&D facility to the marketplace, we offer testing solutions compliant with FDA standards, ensuring product safety and efficacy against microbial contamination.

Cosmetic & Pharmaceutical Testing Services

Kappa Labs is a full service, FDA registered and accepted, and ISO Acccredited, microbiological testing labortory, with over 35 years of testing experience. Product safety is a major focus in the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industry.

Antimicrobial preservatives are added to cosmetics, personal care products and pharmaceuticals to prevent naturally occuring microbiological growth, as well as growth from contamination unintentionally introduced during  the manufacturing and packaging process.

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USP analysis – Microbial limits <60>, <61> & <62>

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Nutritional & Dietary Supplements Testing <2021>, <2022>

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Effective Microbial Reduction Testing <51>

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Stability Testing of Pharmaceutical, Cosmetic & OTC Products

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HPLC Analyses for Potency & Identity

Pharmaceutical Potency Verification – USP NF

Active Ingredient Analyses
Active Ingredient Identity Analyses
Sunscreen SPF Testing & Verification
Complete High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
Botanical & Nutritional Supplement Analysis

Microbiological Limits USP <60>, <61>, <62>

Burkholderia cepacia
Total Aerobic Microbial Count
Total Combined Mold & Yeast
Salmonella & Escherichia coli
Staphylococcus aureus
Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Preservative Effectiveness Testing USP <51>

Escherichia coli
Staphylococcus aureus
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Candida albicans
Aspergillus niger
Burkholderia cepacia (added)

Microbial Enumeration Testing <2021>

Nutritional & Dietary Supplements
Total Aerobic Microbial Count
Total Mold & Yeast Counts
Bile-tolerant Gram Negative Bacteria

Microbial Absence of Organisms <2022>

Staphylococcus aureus
Salmonella spp.
Escherichia coli

Stability Studies

USP Chemical Analyses
USP Microbiological Analyses
High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
Chemical Analyses

To Get Started

Send an e-mail to the Kappa Labartories (info@kappalabs.com) or use the contact form below.  Be sure to include with the following details.

  1. Description of the sample to be analyzed.
  2. Description of matrix to be analyzed.
  3. Determination of methods to be employed.
  4. Number of samples and number of analytes to be determined.