LabServices

As experts in glass packaging and the global market leader in pharmaceutical-grade glass vials, SGD Pharma now offers an analytical testing service for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies, CMO/CDMOs and other glass manufacturers. Customers may require expertise in glass packaging science and can delegate their analyses to a trusted partner with 100+ years of experience in glass manufacturing.

As part of this new service, we provide our customers access to a range of services in our GMP facilities. You can currently book the following:

• Standard quality control
  • Pharmacopoeias tests (USP/EP/JP) such as Hydrolytic Resistance (HR) / Ultra-Violet light transmission / Arsenic
  • Glass testing such as chemical composition with X-Ray Fluorescence, density, seed count
• Extractables studies according to ICH Q3D/water attack (conditioning described In EP 3.2.1 and USP 660)
• Delamination testing according to USP 660/1660
• Surface characterization and particle analysis (Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and binocular microscope for surface and material imaging)
• Particle analysis
  • Binocular microscope for observation
  • Scanning Electron Microscopy equipped with an EDX analyzer (SEM-EDX) to identify metallic compounds
  • Infrared spectrometer (FT-IR) to identify organic compounds