At NSF-DBA, we can provide customized testing services, including method development and validation, bioanalytical support for clinical trials and performance and stability services to meet your company’s immediate and future needs.

Our capabilities include:

• Method development
• Stability Storage and Testing Solutions
• Bioanalytical Testing Services for Clinical Studies

Our laboratory staff has extensive experience in developing new methods specific to complex dietary supplement matrices, including herbal blends, nutritional bars and beverages. Since early 2005, NSF-DBA's laboratory staff has developed more than 120 new dietary supplement testing methods. NSF-DBA has the tools, techniques and experience to adapt preparation techniques, enhance separation approaches and create a method that is customized to the analytical problem at hand.

NSF-DBA scientists are experienced at handling unique requests. Our processes for development are efficient and our quality practices ensure that the techniques are scientifically valid and designed to best meet the customer's needs.

NSF-DBA's laboratories possess qualified stability chambers, whose conditions are compliant with standard Zone I-IV International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) guidelines:

• Refrigerated: 5 + 3°C
• Room Temperature: 25 + 2°C, 60 + 5% Relative Humidity (RH)
• Intermediate: 30 + 2°C, 65 + 5% RH
• 40 + 2°C, 75 + 5% RH

Through our facilitation of a dietary supplement industry work group, NSF-DBA helped to develop a guideline for industry that would provide it with tools for conducting stability studies and implementing stability programs in their operations. NSF-DBA can assist companies substantiate their products' shelf life through monitored storage of samples, testing for contaminants or against label claims during a stability study, or designing a stability study to be conducted at a facility. With our storage and stability testing capabilities, we are well positioned to offer testing for all types of products, including dietary ingredients and finished dietary supplements as well as be able to conduct long-term and accelerated stability studies. Our expert scientific staff can also provide assistance with identifying appropriate FDA-compliant sampling strategies and defining and developing appropriate stability-indicating assays.

NSF-DBA's laboratory staff has expertise in analyzing dietary ingredients and other compounds in a variety of biological matrices (e.g., urine, plasma) as bioanalytical support to a clinical study. Our extensive scientific staff and continual investment in new technologies allows us to be a leader offering cutting-edge testing to the dietary supplement industry. Our network of clinical and pharmacokinetic experts can assist in the design and support of a clinical study to substantiate your claims.