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Alexis St-Gelais, Ph. D., chimiste – Popularization We are regularly contacted by natural extracts producers for assistance with technical sheet (TS) preparation, especially for the European territory. We can understand the reflex of contacting a laboratory to have this kind...

Alexis St-Gelais, chimiste – Popularization & Plant profiles The intensive breeding of cannabis produces strains that have different molecular signatures, and this is quite apparent within terpenes profile. These features can be useful to characterize a strain or extract, by...

Alexis St-Gelais, chimiste – Popularization One of PhytoChemia’s most renowned assays in Canada is our detailed cannabis terpenes analysis. This assay can have different applications and comes in two declinations, “main” and “full” terpenes. Let’s have a tour on the...

Alexis St-Gelais, chimiste & Patrice Rondeau, technicien – Popularization Do you manufacture cosmetic products to be sold in Canada? If so, you should comply with Canadian guidelines for heavy metal impurities in such products, for which PhytoChemia can assist you...

Alexis St-Gelais, chimiste & Cindy Caron, chimiste – Popularization Have you ever heard of the term optical rotation or seen it on a certificate of analysis, and wondered what was its purpose? If the answer is yes, you are in the...

Our ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accreditation covering the General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories was successfully renewed in July 2021. It is valid until May 2024 and covers the methods listed below. The certificate is available in the...

Alexis St-Gelais, chimiste – Popularization Today, we want to give you a glimpse of the process involved when we are able to identify compounds that we earlier reported as unknowns in our gas chromatographic profiles, applying it to the case...

The Standards Council of Canada delivered the ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accreditation  to PhytoChemia in May 2020 (website certificate here). You may not know what it is and what it means to you. In this document, we briefly discuss the subject and...

Hydrosol obtained with Explorer (an Alchemia Solution Still) Corine Lormel, PhD Samples often contain very different molecules. In analytical laboratories, finding the instrument which will identify and quantify them is the first step. For this purpose, the chemist must ensure...

Corine Lormel , PhD As suggested by the Latin declension of the title, this February we will look at a series of blog posts on the theme of roses. In this first post, we will start with a historical overview...