Overview
Our team in Agawam offers a full suite of microbiological, analytical, and environmental monitoring services to support pharmaceutical and medical device product development. The facility is FDA and DEA registered, has ANAB accreditation and a Massachusetts Radiation Materials License. Our satellite office in Marlborough, Massachusetts is located just 32 miles from the heart of the Cambridge-Boston area.
Facility Details
In Agawam, we have three laboratory service groups:
Microbiological
- *Sterility (direct immersion, open membrane filtration, closed membrane filtration)
- *Endotoxin (gel clot, chromogenic, turbidimetric methods)
- *Bioburden
- Microbial examination of non-sterile products (USP <60, <61>, <62>)
- Microbial identification (phenotypic, genotypic, and Gram staining)
- Antimicrobial effectiveness
- Disinfectant qualifications
- Growth promotion testing
- Filter validation (bacterial filter retention and bubble point testing)
- Biological indicators
- Water testing (bioburden, coliform)
- Mycoplasma
- Media fills
- CCIT
- Customized studies
Analytical
- Compendial testing per the USP, EP, BP, JP, JPE, ACS
- Compendial method verifications
- Analytical method validation and transfer studies
- Cleaning validation (specific and non-specific methods)
- ICH stability storage and testing
- CCIT
- *Residual ethylene oxide (EO) testing
- ASTM package testing
Environmental Monitoring & Cleanroom Services
We offer environmental monitoring services throughout New England and in the greater Albany, NY area, including:
- Routine environmental monitoring, qualification, and certification
- Total particulate
- Active viable air monitoring
- Passive viable air monitoring
- Viable surface monitoring
- Personnel monitoring
- Compressed air/gas monitoring (moisture, oil, N2, mixed gases)
- Water system monitoring (TOC, conductivity, nitrates, heterotrophic plate count)
- Temperature and humidity monitoring
- Differential pressure monitoring
- Incubation
- Enumeration and reporting
- Courier services for our clients within a 150-mile radius of the Agawam facility. Download our courier request form here.
For our Agawam site’s registration certifications, see our forms and certifications.
*ANAB accredited