Every day, products and materials come into contact with micro-organisms. Although many are harmless and in some cases beneficial, certain microorganisms can cause significant contamination, damage and risk to human health. Some other microbes can utilize various food products and related ingredients/products as food source, breaking the material down into nutrients and irreversibly changing the product whilst other microbes can spoil food, negatively affecting production environments, products and infrastructure, besides causing financial losses. They can cause severe illness or contaminate sterile environments.

Nextbio Research Laboratories offers comprehensive services in Microbiology Testing. At NBR, we can assist you in determining the appropriate testing parameters that are required based on regulations, source and intended purpose. The samples are put to test the same day so as to minimize turnaround time. Our Microbiological laboratory is fully compliant with current Good Laboratory Practices requirements. The Microbiology services that we offer our clients include:

• Microbial Enumeration
• Test for specified organisms
• Validation of thermal equipment
• Performing sampling at customer location
• Environment sampling
• Mapping of the manufacturing area and development of sampling sites in compliance with ISO regulations.
• Provide trend reports on the sites so that you can make decisions on manufacturing areas.

NBR has a comprehensive analytical laboratory that provides complete Wet Chemistry Testing. In addition to modern analytical instrumentation, we offer many types of trusted and tried wet chemical analyses that the pharmaceutical and food industries still widely perform and rely upon.  Often, modern instrumentation cannot ascertain results that many specific wet chemical tests provide.
At NBR, we are committed to serving our clients in all their wet chemical analyses needs and have the equipment, knowledge and experienced staff to provide this support. Furthermore, as part of this contingency to be always prepared to serve our customers’ needs, as varied as they may be, we stock large inventories of reagents, test solutions, volumetric solutions, glassware and indicators to carry out the analyses. Some common wet chemistry tests carried out at NBR include (representative list, not exhaustive; please call for more information):

• pH
• Electrical conductivity (EC)
• Hardness
• Dissolved Solids
• Turbidity
• Viscosity
• Moisture (Karl Fischer titration)
• Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD)
• Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD)
• Fluoride
• Phosphate
• Sulphate, Sulphide
• Nitrate

The analytical laboratory also has an instrumentation section equipped with state-of-the-art advanced instruments. A lot many analyses that would requires days of analysis, now have a much reduced TaT of a few hours due to automated instrumentation.
At NBR, we can help evaluate a broad range of characteristics using advanced instrumental analyses, from determining ultra-trace levels of impurities in raw materials to trace levels that may be found in finished pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and food products.
Our clients can rest assured that the instruments and methods employed at NBR are the most up-to-date innovations in technology and automation, thereby providing analyses and results that are more efficient and accurate.
A few common compendial tests completed by the laboratory include: 

• Heavy Metals
• Pesticides
• Assays
• Mycotoxins
• Vitamins
• Loss on Drying/ Residue on Ignition
• Residual Solvents
• Identification (Wet Chemistry, FTIR, UV-VIS, TLC)
• Limit tests
• Halides Testing
• Viscosity