Plant extracts are one of the important raw materials for cosmetics, food, nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals and have a significant impact on their quality. Meanwhile, standards and regulations related to plant extracts are constantly increasing. Accordingly, comprehensive testing of plant extracts is essential for product development, production, marketing and purchasing.
Alfa Chemistry has a range of specialized analytical techniques and equipment, as well as experienced technicians, to perform reliable and comprehensive testing of your plant extracts.
Our Services
Our testing services of plant extracts include, but are not limited to, the following:
| Testing types | Testing items |
| General indicators | Moisture, weight loss on drying, total ash, acid-insoluble ash, pH value, packing density, particle size |
| Content | Total flavonoids, total polyphenols, total saponins, total anthraquinones, crude polysaccharides |
| Heavy metal and harmful elements | Mercury, cadmium, lead, chromium, arsenic, copper, nickel, cobalt, tin |
| Microorganisms | Total number of colonies, molds and yeast, escherichia coli, salmonella, staphylococcus aureus, shigell |
| Solvent residues | Methanol, ethanol, acetone, methylene chloride, trichloromethane, ethyl acetate, n-hexane, isopropanol, toluene |
| Pesticide residues | Methamidophos, methyl parathion, parathion, monocrotophos, phosphamidon |
Service Process
- Customer consultation: Customers consult our engineers and submit testing requirements
- Scheme establishment: Our technicians determine the experimental program according to the samples to be tested and make a quotation to the customer based on the types of experiments.
- Signing a contract: After customer confirmation, we will sign a commission contract and a confidentiality agreement to strictly protect customer privacy.
- Payment and send samples: Customers pay the test fee and begin to deliver samples that need to tested.
- Sample analysis: Our professional technicians conduct the experiments, and completes all the tests within the specified test date.
- Issue a report: We will feedback the final results and issue the corresponding test report according to the commission contract.
- After-sales service: Our technicians are always available to answer your questions about test reports.
Why Choose Us
Alfa chemistry is well-equipped with an independent plant extract testing laboratory. It is equipped with precision instruments such as high performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC), gas chromatograph (GC), atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS), ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometer (UV-Vis), as well as other specialized analytical equipment. Thus, we are capable of conducting various types of tests.
With expertise in phytochemistry and analytical chemistry, our technicians are familiar with hundreds of types of plant extracts and have extensive experience in testing plant extracts. We have developed standardized operation procedures for each test item, ensuring that the test methods are appropriate for their intended use. Therefore, we are able to provide reliable data and professional reports, and can help our customers produce accurate test results in the shortest possible period.
Our technicians provide one-to-one service throughout the process to respond to any questions you may have. Furthermore, we offer high standard customized services by closely following international standards and customer needs. In addition, we can be your reliable partner with complete confidentiality of your information.
If you have any questions about the service, please feel free to contact us. Alfa Chemistry looks forward to being your project partner.
Please kindly note that our products and services are for research use only.
