Process & Product Testing

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ALS - Columbia provides process/product testing and quality control testing for many of our industrial clients.

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Pharmaceutical and Nutraceutical Industries

ALS - Columbia is FDA-registered and passed a 2007 FDA comprehensive quality systems and data audit with no findings. The following services are provided to the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries: monograph testing, process validation and engineering studies, analytical support for stability testing, and method development and validation.

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Pulp and Paper Industries

Over the years, ALS - Columbia has been committed to providing many process tests and product quality tests for the pulp and paper industry.

Process Tests and Product Quality:

  • FDA extractions: Conditions A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H
  • Dairyman's Standards for Total Bacteria and Total Coliform Bacteria 
  • Emissions chambers: volatile organics, sulfur speciation, odor identification, product emission studies, air treatment studies
  • Wet strength components: acetaldehyde, formaldehyde
  • RPTA protocol testing: FDA extractions; volatile organics, metals, semivolatile organics; PCBs, organochlorine pesticides, dioxin, and bacteria
  • Migration studies: FDA solvents and extractions
  • Carbonless paper: Diisononyl phthalate (DINP)
  • Proposition 65 components
  • Microwave and heated packaging emissions: acrylonitrile, benzene, carbon tetrachloride, chloroform, 1,2-dichloroethane; 1,4-dioxane, epichlorohydrin, ethyl acetate, methylene chloride
  • Coating monomers: acrylamide, ethyl acetate, vinyl acetate
  • Phthalate esters

Learn more about testing for the Pulp & Paper industry...

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Electronics Industries

ALS - Columbia has worked for a number of large electronics companies to meet their specific process and quality systems needs. Testing required under RoHS/WEEE and REACH requirements for both importing and exporting products to various countries is performed.

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Off-Gassing Studies

ALS - Columbia conducts specialized off-gassing studies using small-scale chambers both open and closed to the environment. While in these chambers, materials may be subjected to controlled conditions such as temperature and relative humidity. Any off-gassing volatile or odorous compounds may then be collected and analyzed. Each off-gassing study is customized to the client's requirements and material specifications. This is very important as not all materials are created equal and will off-gas different components at varying conditions. The goal is to bring field conditions into the laboratory and duplicate them.

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