ACTA’s chemistry analysts are extensively trained and routinely perform the following USP chemical tests and assays.

• <51> Antimicrobial Effectiveness Testing
• <55> Biological Indicators – Resistance Performance Tests
• <61> Microbiological Examination of Nonsterile Products: Microbial Enumeration Tests
• <62> Microbiological Examination of Nonsterile Products: Tests for Specified Microorganisms

Total Coliforms per FDA BAM

Screening for other objectionable microorganisms not included in the USP, such as Pseudomonas cepacia and Klebsiella.

• <85> Bacterial Endotoxins Test
• <87> Biological Reactivity Tests, In Vitro

• <181> Identification – Organic Nitrogenous Bases
• <191> Identification Tests – General
• <193> Identification – Tetracyclines (Method II only)
• <197> Spectrophotometric Identification Tests
• <201> Thin-Layer Chromatographic Identification Test

• <211> Arsenic
• <221> Chloride and Sulfate
• <223> Dimethylaniline
• <226> 4-Epianhydrotetracycline
• <228> Ethylene Oxide and Dioxane
• <231> Heavy Metals
• <232> Elemental Impurities – Limits
  <233> Elemental Impurities – Procedures
• <241> Iron
• <251> Lead
• <261> Mercury (Method I only)
• <271> Readily Carbonizable Substances Test
• <281> Residue on Ignition

• <301> Acid-Neutralizing Capacity
• <341> Antimicrobial Agents – Content
• <345> Assay for Citric Acid/Citrate and Phosphate
• <351> Assay for Steroids
• <381> Elastomeric Closures for Injections
• <391> Epinephrine Assay
• <401> Fats and Fixed Oils
• <411> Folic Acid Assay
• <413> Impurities Testing in Medical Gases
  <415> Medical Gases Assay
• <425> Iodometric Assay – Antibiotics
• <441> Niacin or Niacinamide Assay
• <451> Nitrite Titration
• <461> Nitrogen Determination
• <466> Ordinary Impurities
• <467> Residual Solvents
• <481> Riboflavin Assay
• <501>Salts of Organic Nitrogenous Bases
• <503> Acetic Acid in Peptides
• <511> Single-Steroid Assay
• <525> Sulfur Dioxide
• <531> Thiamine Assay
• <541> Titrimetry
• <551> Vitamin E Assay
• <561> Articles of Botanical Origin
• <571> Vitamin A Assay
• <581> Vitamin D Assay
• <591> Zinc Determination

• <603> Topical Aerosols
  <604> Leak Rate
• <611> Alcohol Determination
• <621> Chromatography
  • GC Analysis and Testing
  • HPLC Analysis and Testing
• <631> Color and Achromicity
• <641> Completeness of Solution
• <643> Total Organic Carbon
• <645> Water Conductivity
• <651> Congealing Temperature
• <661> Plastic Packaging Systems and their Materials of Construction
  • <661.1> Plastic Materials of Construction
  • <661.2> Plastic Packaging Systems for Pharmaceutical Use
• <671> Containers – Performance Testing
• <698> Deliverable Volume
• <701> Disintegration
• <711> Dissolution
• <721> Distilling Range
• <724> Drug Release
• <730> Plasma Spectrochemistry
• <731> Loss on Drying
• <733> Loss on Ignition
• <736> Mass Spectrometry
• <741> Melting Range or Temperature
• <755> Minimum Fill
• <771> Ophthalmic Products – Quality Tests
• <781> Optical Rotation
• <785> Osmolality and Osmolarity
• <787> Subvisible Particulate Matter in Therapeutic Protein Injections
• <788> Particulate Matter in Injections
• <789> Particulate Matter in Ophthalmic Solutions
• <791> pH
• <831> Refractive Index
• <841> Specific Gravity
• <853> Fluorescence Spectroscopy
• <854> Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy
• <857> Ultraviolet-Visible Spectroscopy
• <891> Thermal Analysis
• <905> Uniformity of Dosage Units
• <911> Viscosity – Capillary Viscometer Methods
• <912> Viscosity – Rotational Methods
• <921> Water Determination

• <1052> Biotechnology – Derived Articles – Amino Acid Analysis
  <1057> Biotechnology – Derived Articles – Total Protein Assay
• <1065> Ion Chromatography
• <1072> Disinfectants and Antiseptics
• <1086> Impurities in Drug Substances and Drug Products
• <1092> The Dissolution Procedure: Development and Validation
• <1111> Microbiological Examination of Nonsterile Products: Acceptance Criteria for Pharmaceutical Preparations and Substances for Pharmaceutical Use
• <1116> Microbiological Control and Monitoring of Aseptic Processing Environments
• <1117> Microbiological Best Laboratory Practices
• <1151> Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms
• <1223> Validation of Alternative Microbiological Methods
• <1224>Transfer of Analytical Procedures
• <1225> Validation of Compendial Procedures
• <1226> Verification of Compendial Procedures
• <1227> Validation of Microbial Recovery from Pharmacopeial Articles
• <1230> Water for Hemodialysis Applications
• <1231> Water for Pharmaceutical Purposes
• <1788> Methods for the Determination of Particulate Matter in Injections and Ophthalmic Solutions

• <2021> Microbial Enumeration Tests – Nutritional and Dietary Supplements
• <2022> Microbiological Procedures for Absence of Specified Microorganisms – Nutritional and Dietary Supplements
• <2023> Microbiological Attributes of Nonsterile Nutritional and Dietary Supplements
• <2030> Supplemental Information for Articles of Botanical Origin
• <2040> Disintegration and Dissolution of Dietary Supplements
• <2091> Weight Variation of Dietary Supplements