Quality Control

The quality control (QC) team is responsible for internal monitoring and ensuring that a quality product is released to the client and that all regulatory requirements are met. QC provides facility environmental monitoring procedures and a full battery of analytical methods.

Our experienced QC staff will:

  • Demonstrate product safety
  • Characterize the product
    • Protein - SDS-PAGE, stains, HPLC, ELISA, MS, Spectrophotometry
    • Nucleic Acid - Hybridization, PCR, real-time PCR, Sequencing, RFLP, Spectrophotometry
    • Cell-based - Growth curve, doubling time, expression levels
  • Demonstrate product lot consistency
  • Demonstrate product stability
    • Historical
    • Concurrent with clinical trial
  • Monitor the Environment
    • Viable and Non-Viable Air Particles, Settling Plates, Rodac Surface Monitoring
  • Monitor Personnel
  • Develop & Validate assays

Quality Control and Quality Assurance Services

Additional services are provided by our Quality Team that can help you develop a quality system or enable an FDA submission to go more smoothly. These services are available individually or as part of a project package and include:

  • In-process and release assay development
  • Specifications and COA development
  • Standard Operating Procedure development
  • Document Control Development
  • Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) procedures and other Quality Systems
  • Vendor Qualification
    • Raw Materials
    • External Testing Laboratories
  • IND Preparation Support; Chemistry, Manufacturing and Control (CMC) section
  • Regulatory Agency Audit support

All Quality Systems and processes are outlined in our detailed Quality Manual (please contact us if you would like to know more about our quality systems).