Scientech Laboratories conducts heavy metals testing using state of the art ICP-MS instrumentation for maximum sensitivity and the most accurate results. Heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, mercury, and arsenic in products pose significant health risks for consumers. The US FDA requires heavy metal testing of drugs and materials that go into drug products.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) report that heavy metal toxicity can lower energy levels and damage the functioning of the brain, lungs, kidney, liver, blood composition and other important organs. Long-term exposure can lead to gradually progressing physical, muscular, and neurological degenerative processes that imitate diseases such as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and muscular dystrophy. Repeated long-term exposure of some metals and their compounds may even cause cancer. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4427717

ICP-MS testing for heavy metals is just one more way that Scientech supports the Pharmaceutical, OTC drug, Cosmetics, Dietary Supplement, and Botanicals industries with quality testing of finished products and raw materials, support for product development, process development, formulation, and stability studies.

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