ACTA offers comprehensive analytical services to support your testing needs. The following is a list of the USP General Chapter tests performed at ACTA.
MICROBIOLOGICAL TESTS
51 Antimicrobial Effectiveness Testing 55 Biological Indicators - Resistance Performance Tests; Total Viable Spore Count 61 Microbiological Examination of Nonsterile Products: Microbial Enumeration Tests 62 Microbiological Examination of Nonsterile Products: Tests for Specified Microorganisms
Biological Tests and Assays
85 Bacterial Endotoxins Test 87 Biological Reactivity Tests, In Vitro
Chemical Tests and Assays
Identification Tests 181 Identification - Organic Nitrogenous Bases 191 Identification Tests - General 193 Identification - Tetracyclines (Method II only) 197 Spectrophotometric Identification Tests 201 Thin-Layer Chromatographic Identification Test
Limit Tests211 Arsenic 221 Chloride and Sulfate 223 Dimethylaniline 226 4-Epianhydro-tetracycline 231 Heavy Metals 241 Iron 251 Lead 261 Mercury (Method I only) 271 Readily Carbonizable Substances Test 281 Residue on Ignition
Other Tests and Assays301 Acid-Neutralizing Capacity 331 Amphetamine Assay 341 Antimicrobial Agents - Content 351 Assay for Steroids 381 Elastomeric Closures for Injections 391 Epinephrine Assay 401 Fats and Fixed Oils 411 Folic Acid Assay 425 Iodometric Assay - Antibiotics 441 Niacin or Niacinamide Assay 451 Nitrite Titration 461 Nitrogen Determination 466 Ordinary Impurities 467 Residual Solvents 481 Riboflavin Assay 501 Salts of Organic Nitrogenous Bases 511 Single-Steroid Assay 531 Thiamine Assay 541 Titrimetry 551 Alpha Tocopherol Assay 561 Articles of Botanical Origin 571 Vitamin A Assay 581 Vitamin D Assay 591 Zinc Determination
Physical Tests and Determinations611 Alcohol Determination 621 Chromatography 631 Color and Achromicity 641 Completeness of Solution 643 Total Organic Carbon 645 Water Conductivity 651 Congealing Temperature 661 Containers - Plastic 671 Containers - Performance Testing 698 Deliverable Volume 701 Disintegration 711 Dissolution 721 Distilling Range 724 Drug Release 730 Plasma Spectrochemistry 731 Loss on Drying 733 Loss on Ignition 736 Mass Spectrometry 741 Melting Range or Temperature 755 Minimum Fill 771 Ophthalmic Ointments 781 Optical Rotation 785 Osmolality and Osmolarity 788 Particulate Matter in Injections 789 Particulate Matter in Ophthalmic Solutions 791 pH 831 Refractive Index 841 Specific Gravity 851 Spectrophotometry and Light-Scattering 891 Thermal Analysis 905 Uniformity of Dosage Units 911 Viscosity 921 Water Determination
General Information
1065 Ion Chromatography 1072 Disinfectants and Antiseptics 1086 Impurities in Official Articles 1092 The Dissolution Procedure: Development and Validation 1111 Microbiological Attributes of Nonsterile Pharmaceutical Products 1111 Microbiological Examination of Nonsterile Products: Acceptance Criteria for Pharmaceutical Preparations and Substances for Pharmaceutical Use 1116 Microbiological Evaluation of Clean Rooms and Other Controlled Environments 1117 Microbiological Best Laboratory Practices 1150 Pharmaceutical Stability 1151 Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms 1223 Validation of Alternative Microbiological Methods 1225 Validation of Compendial Procedures 1226 Verification of Compendial Procedures 1227 Validation of Microbial Recovery from Pharmacopeial Articles 1230 Water for Health Applications 1231 Water for Pharmaceutical Purposes
Dietary Supplements
2021 Microbial Enumeration Tests - Nutritional and Dietary Supplements 2022 Microbiological Procedures for Absence of Specified Microorganisms - Nutritional and Dietary Supplements 2023 Microbiological Attributes of Nonsterile Nutritional and Dietary Supplements 2030 Supplemental Information for Articles of Botanical Origin 2040 Disintegration and Dissolution of Dietary Supplements 2091 Weight Variation of Dietary Supplements