RESEARCH INTERESTS

Our interests include the areas of pharmaceuticals, polymers, general organics, nutrition, medical devices, nutraceuticals, agriceuticals, foods, applied biochemistry and metabolism including clinical medicine. Company efforts are also directed to analytical problem-solving areas of environmental health, biomaterials and forensics. Chromaceutical also has special interests in chemical engineering and process design within a framework of analytical chemistry to ensure product quality.

Areas of Expertise

• Development of separation science technology when applied to organics as well as polymerics.
• Service work (diverse applications) routine and novel.
• Analytical protocol development for quality control/ quality assurance (QC/QA).
• Product specification compliance and analysis of food and non-food ingredients.
• Analytical biochemistry.
• Validation studies that abide by the International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH) guidelines for release specifications of pharmaceuticals, food ingredients, additives or other products.
• Development and analysis of process control parameters. Correlation studies between analyte concentrations and one or more chemical, biological or microbiological factors.
• Product deformulation.
• Investigative "good" versus "bad" studies.
• Pharmacokinetic studies contained in fluid sample matrices.
• Basic research and development supporting product development culminating in written drafts for patent applications or provisional patent disclosures.
• Analytical studies - Chromaceutical undertakes analytical studies that have short, medium or long-term durations.