Our microbiology department head Mahi showing off some of her plates 🧫

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We love to see our clients' innovative products hitting the market💚

A very happy birthday to our #1 site manager Paul K!! Paul works tirelessly to keep the lab supplied, orders managed and literally keep a roof over our heads.

We put our GMP (Drug Establishment License) application for testing activities with pharmaceuticals and APIs in the mail today 👨‍🔬⚗️💪 Vivariant

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DYK that in addition to cadmium, arsenic, lead and mercury Health Canada also posts limits on the levels of antimony in topical NHPs? Our ICP-MS method is validated for the measurement of heavy metals including antimony in topical and cosmetic products. canada.ca/en/health-cana…

🧵In February Vivariant received its ISO 17025:2017 accreditation and the certificate finally came. It's been interesting building a lab testing quality management system in a nascent regulatory space. While we have already submitted our DEL (GMP) application, we still chose...

Interested in guidelines for cosmetic advertising and labelling claims? Health Canada maintains a guidance document here: publications.gc.ca/collections/co…

Interested in Natural Health Products?⚗️🌱💊 Health Canada maintains a useful database of single ingredient and product monographs for herbal materials and natural health products. 📜 webprod.hc-sc.gc.ca/nhpid-bdipsn/m… Lots of information for both the manufacturing and marketing teams.

Overfilled the thimble (oops) but here's a pretty Soxhlet extraction of dried cannabis flower with anhydrous ethanol.

Stop by booth 1120 at Omid - we're here all weekend!

We are proud to announce that we have received our Drug Establishment License from Health Canada, making Vivariant a GMP accredited testing laboratory.

🧵Hot cannabis regulatory update! USP has put up a draft Cannabis Species Inflorescence Monograph for public comment, it's a lot more coherent than the previous iterations. There's some exciting stuff in there including a standardized potency HPLC test, articulated limits on...

We have an opening for an entry level lab assistant at Vivariant. Great opportunity for a recent science graduate looking to break into the commercial life sciences. linkedin.com/jobs/view/3350…

Headed to CHTA in Saskatoon tomorrow. Who else is going?

We have an opening for a microbiology analyst at Vivariant linkedin.com/jobs/view/3377…

Our founder Thomas Fraleigh was interviewed for a StratCann🌱 article regarding dishonest THC testing practices and standard reference materials.

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