USP General Chapters

 

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 Tests
211 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 Assays
301 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 Determinations
611 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