Contract Research and Analytical Services

A. Contract Research

Selim Laboratories provide contract research, method development, and non-routine analytical services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and agrochemical industries requiring compliance with national and international quality standards, such as Good Laboratory Practices (GLPs), current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs), or International Standard Organization (ISO 17025). Examples of such services include:

1. Analysis of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), impurities profiles, and related compounds using GC/MS and HPLC/MS/MS
2. Extraction, separation, and purification of API, reactive or thermally unstable compounds, using supercritical fluid extraction and supercritical fluid chromatography  combined with mass spectrometric SFE/SFC/MS techniques.
3. Metabolism and environmental fate studies for product development, registration, and commercialization of agrochemicals and consumer products.
4. Exposure assessment studies for product registration and data recall under the U.S. Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). Expertise in conducting occupational exposure studies in agricultural and industrial settings, including dermal, inhalation, and total body exposure to hazardous chemicals (e.g. pesticides, biocides, fungicides, disinfectants, and well as heavy metals).

B. Analytical Services

Selim Laboratories provide routine analytical services in several areas of environmental, food and feed analysis, and abused drug testing. These analytical services follow the approved protocols of relevant agencies or organizations, such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC), and the guidelines of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, respectively. These routine analytical services include:

1. Analysis of pesticides and their breakdown products in food, water, and air samples. This includes organochlorines, organophosphates, carbamates, 2,4-D’s, and pyrthrines.
2. Analysis of mycotoxin in raw agricultural commodities, cereals, and animal feed. This includes aflatoxins, ochratoxin A, vomitoxin (deoxynivalenol), T-2 toxin, diacetoxyscirpenol, fumonisins, and zearalenones.
3. Analysis of abused drug and their metabolites. This includes marijuana, cocaine, opiates, barbiturates, amphetamines, phencyclidine, benzodiazepines, gamma hydroxybutyrate, and other substances.