Your needs : to develop or to optimize fast, reliable and applicable analytical methods at your production sites
What are analytical laboratory services?
Analytical laboratory services refer to the scientific testing and evaluation of materials, components, or products using standardized or customized methods. These services are critical in ensuring product quality, regulatory compliance, and performance. They include method development, validation, stability studies, impurity profiling, physical-chemical characterization, and trace analysis.
At FILAB, we provide custom analytical testing solutions for complex matrices and niche applications across various sectors including pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, chemicals, polymers, and metallurgy.
FILAB’s analytical testing capabilities
HPLC / UPLC
For active ingredient and impurity analysis
GC-MS
For volatile compound profiling
ICP-MS / ICP-OES
For trace metals in raw materials or finished products
FTIR
For structural and physicochemical characterization
TGA
For thermal behavior and degradation profile
DSC
for thermal behavior and degradation profile
We support you in method validation according to ICH Q2 (R1) guidelines and industry-specific standards.
Why choose FILAB for analytical testing?
Partnering with a specialized laboratory like FILAB for analytical testing services provides industries with access to state-of-the-art analytical instruments, a team of expert chemists, and regulatory know-how.
Outsourcing analytical method development and optimization allows you to reduce risks, save time, and benefit from consistent and reproducible results.
FILAB ensures that your methods meet international standards while remaining flexible and transposable to your production environments.
- ISO 17025 accredited analytical testing laboratory
- Multi-technique, cross-sector expertise
- Flexibility to handle routine, non-routine, and R&D testing
- Short lead times and personalized technical reports
- Confidentiality, traceability, and regulatory compliance
Use cases
Developing analytical methods for new cosmetic or pharmaceutical formulations
Verifying material conformity in raw materials
Testing residual solvents or trace elements
Investigating product degradation over time
Transferring validated methods between production sites
Regulatory submission (REACH, ISO, GMP)
FILAB provides the following services
Development of new techniques to quantify impurities using liquid chromatography coupled to a set of mass spectrometers (LC-MS/MS)
Analytical development for heavy metal analysis using ICP-AES and ICP-MS
Kinetic polymerization simulations using DSC analysis
Validation de methods in compliance with the NF T 90-210 standards
Onsite technique transfer of team training (FILAB is a CIR certified training organization)
Development of new techniques to analyze impurities using gas chromatography coupled to a mass spectrometer (GCMS)
Development of accelerated aging methods (leaching, degradation, swelling, corrosion...)
Analytical validation for the determination of solar filters in order to comply with FDA standards on “over the counter” products (ex. Sun block...).
Laboratory audit
With three levels of services – analysis, expertise and R&D support – FILAB assists companies from all sectors and of all sizes in overcoming their industrial challenges by sharing its technical know-how and the wealth of experience of its team with its clients.
FAQ
Analytical testing services refer to the scientific techniques used to identify, quantify, and characterize the chemical or physical properties of a substance or material.
These services are critical in R&D, regulatory submissions, quality control, and failure investigations.
At FILAB, our analytical laboratory performs testing on metals, polymers, ceramics, powders, coatings, and more using advanced instrumentation such as ICP, GC-MS, HPLC, XRD, and FTIR.
FILAB’s analytical laboratory supports clients in a wide range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, cosmetics, chemicals, materials, aerospace, and automotive.
Our ISO 17025-accredited methods and multidisciplinary team ensure high-quality, reliable data for both regulated and non-regulated sectors.
Yes.
FILAB is an independent analytical laboratory offering analytical testing services to support industrial clients in the development, validation, and optimization of analytical methods.
With ISO 17025 accreditation and multidisciplinary expertise, our team assists you throughout the product lifecycle: from R&D and regulatory compliance to quality control and process troubleshooting.
Whether you're developing a new formulation, ensuring batch consistency, or validating a release method, FILAB delivers accurate, fast, and tailored analytical laboratory services.
Turnaround depends on project complexity. For more information, please contact the FILAB laboratory
Method development involves designing and optimizing analytical procedures to accurately and reproducibly measure specific components in complex matrices. This is essential when no standard method exists, or when existing methods are not suitable for a new product or formulation. FILAB offers tailored method development for complex materials, active substances, trace-level impurities, extractables and leachables, degradation products, and more.
Yes.
FILAB provides full analytical method validation in accordance with ICH Q2(R1) guidelines, and client-specific protocols.
Our team validates parameters such as accuracy, precision, specificity, linearity, detection limits, robustness, and reproducibility.
Absolutely.
Once your method is developed and validated, FILAB can carry out routine testing services under the same validated conditions.
This allows you to externalize your analytical controls while ensuring consistent quality and compliance.
Our laboratory is equipped with a wide range of analytical technologies, including:
- Spectroscopy: ICP-OES, ICP-MS, UV-Vis, FTIR, XRF
- Chromatography: HPLC, GC-FID, GC-MS
- Thermal analysis: DSC, TGA
- Structural techniques: XRD, SEM-EDX, TOF-SIMS
- Surface analysis: XPS, AFM, SEM
Analytical method optimization focuses on the technical improvement of existing analytical procedures to achieve better accuracy, efficiency, and reproducibility.
Rather than developing a new method, the objective is to refine experimental conditions—such as temperature, pH, solvent type, or instrumental parameters—to enhance performance and minimize sources of variability.
At FILAB, this process is guided by a scientific and data-driven approach, using statistical tools like Design of Experiments (DoE) to evaluate multiple factors simultaneously and define optimal analytical settings.
The result is a robust and reproducible analytical method, ready to be validated and transferred between laboratories or production sites with consistent results.
Developing a new analytical method typically involves several key steps:
- Assessing the client’s analytical needs
- Drafting the study protocol defining analytical parameters and method design
- Conducting feasibility tests to verify stability and reproducibility across multiple lots
- Preparing and validating the analytical protocol to establish a robust, compliant method
Each of these steps is integral to FILAB’s analytical testing services, ensuring data integrity, reproducibility, and precision.