R&D & Formulation

Ingredient Research

Characterisation, stability, bioactivity screening, formulation suitability and supply-chain comparability for novel and established functional ingredients. Useful when you need an independent, structured view on what an ingredient really is and how it behaves.

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What It Covers

Scope of Work

Identity, purity and marker-compound profiling for new ingredients

Comparability between batches, suppliers and country-of-origin

Bioactivity screening for functional and bioactive ingredients

Solubility, stability and formulation-suitability evaluation

Adulteration, substitution and economic-fraud screening

Provenance and supply-chain traceability supportive analytics

Specification design for new ingredients entering the supply base

Forced-degradation and stability liabilities mapping

How We Do It

Methods & Instrumentation

HPLC / UPLC

Marker compound and active assay; potency profiling.

LC-MS / LC-MS/MS

Untargeted screening, fingerprinting and structural confirmation.

GC-MS

Volatile profile and essential-oil characterisation.

UV-Vis / FTIR

Identity confirmation and qualitative comparison.

ICP-MS

Elemental and heavy-metal profiling.

NMR (on referral)

Structural confirmation for novel chemical entities.

Regulatory Framework

Standards This Work Maps Onto

Methods, documentation and acceptance criteria are designed to align with the standards below. This describes design intent — formal accreditations are listed on the About page.

EU / UK Novel Food regulatory framework (where applicable)

USP / Ph. Eur. monographs as directional reference

ICH Q6A specification design principles

ISO 17025-style traceability for raw data

What You Receive

Typical Deliverables

Ingredient characterisation report with full data tables

Comparability assessment across batches and suppliers

Bioactivity screening summary

Specification draft for adoption into supply contracts

Adulteration / substitution investigation reports

Recommendation memo for sourcing decisions

Who It's For

Sectors We Support

Nutraceutical brands evaluating novel actives

Ingredient suppliers benchmarking new candidates

Pharma R&D teams sourcing reference materials

Food and beverage brands launching functional ingredients

Investors performing technical due diligence

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