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Testing and release for pharma and life sciences

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Healthcare & Pharma

Pharmaceutical quality control testing

Normec offers expert quality control testing for pharmaceutical products, raw materials, excipients, and medical devices. Our certified laboratory is equipped to carry out a wide range of analyses, including chemical, physical, and microbiological testing. With over 15 years of experience and international accreditations, we ensure that your products meet the highest standards before they go to market.

Pharmaceutical companies, contract manufacturers, and life sciences businesses across Europe rely on our expertise. Whether it’s batch release, stability testing, or method validation — our dedicated team supports your quality and compliance processes with precision and speed.

Benefits of pharmaceutical quality control

  • Ensure regulatory compliance and avoid delays in product market entry.

  • Increase the reliability and safety of your pharmaceutical products through independent laboratory testing.

  • Strengthen your organization's image as a professional, quality-driven, and certified supplier in the pharma and life sciences sector.

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Our testing services include:

Finished Formulations Testing:

  • Physical and chemical analysis

  • Apparent volume

  • Conductivity testing

  • Density

  • Disintegration testing

  • Resistance to crushing of tablets

  • Friability

  • Dissolution testing (apparatus I and II)

  • Neutralizing capacity

  • Optical rotation of drugs

  • Osmotic value

  • Particle size (sieve and microscopy)

  • Particulate contamination, visible and sub-visible (light obscuration particle count test)

  • pH

  • Refractive index

  • Uniformity of dosage units (mass and content)

  • Uniformity of mass

  • Viscosity

  • Water content of compounds

  • Assay

  • Related Substances/ impurities testing

  • Elemental impurities (trace metals)

Microbiological analysis

  • Absence of specific micro-organisms

  • Bioburden, TAMC and TYMC

  • Endotoxin testing (gel clot method, kinetic turbidimetric method)

  • Microbiological assay of antibiotics

  • Sterility testing

  • Identification of Micro-organisms

Active Pharmaceutical ingredient testing:

Physical and chemical raw material analysis

  • Boiling point

  • Clarity and degree of opalescence of liquids

  • Conductivity

  • Degree of coloration of liquids

  • Density of solids

  • Distillation range

  • Drop point

  • Elemental analysis (atomic absorption, atomic emission, graphite furnace, hydride system)

  • Freezing point

  • Identification testing

  • Infrared spectrometry

  • Limit tests

  • Melting point

  • Optical rotation

  • Osmolality

  • pH

  • Potentiometric determination of pH

  • Refractive index

  • Relative density

  • Residual testing (sulphated ash and total ash)

  • Titration (amperometric, complexometric and potentiometric)

  • UV-VIS spectrometry

  • Viscosity (capillary and rotating)

  • Water determination (loss on drying and Karl Fisher)

Reliable results, on time and fully compliant

  • Planning & Flexibility

    We work closely with your planning team to align testing timelines with your production schedules. Urgent batch release? Need support outside office hours? Our flexible planning ensures your deadlines are met — reliably and compliantly.

  • Quality & Safety First

    Our lab operates under GMP and ISO 13485 certification, and is FDA registered and WHO prequalified. All our processes follow strict quality and safety procedures, supported by a robust Quality Management System (QMS). Our trained analysts, validated methods, and modern equipment ensure consistent, compliant results every time.

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