PhytoChemia’s ISO/IEC 17025 Accreditation – Update July 2021
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 Standards Council of Canada’s Directory of Accredited Laboratories. *For those interested in learning more, we […]
PhytoChemia’s ISO/IEC 17025 Accreditation Range of Scope
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 conclude with the list of accredited services. What is ISO 17025? This is an […]
The Chemistree History
An Algorithm to Solve Them All (Almost)
Alexis St-Gelais, M. Sc., Chemist – Activities and Events PhytoChemia has always been proud to provide the essential oils community with GC-FID results obtained from a dual-column system – just as it is done in academia. This powerful approach is able to solve most coelutions and reach a high level of detail in analyses in […]
First Inventory of Pests and Diseases in Cannabis and Hemp Crops in Canada
Laurie Caron, M.Sc. Chimiste In collaboration with Biopterre, the Institut de Recherche en Biologie Végétale and the University of Moncton, Phytochemia is proud to present a new research project on the identification of the pests ans diseases affecting the production of cannabis and hemp in Canada. The main objective of this project is to generate the […]
Caution, Hot Subject!
Benoit Roger, Ph. D. Laboratoire Phytochemia is proud to be a sponsor of the hot sauce festival ”Saguenay en Feu” that will take place in Chicoutimi on May 25-26! A good occasion for us to talk a bit about the chemistry of Chili pepper and by extension of some molecules that confuse our senses. It […]
A new team member
We are pleased to introduce Mr. Benoit Roger Ph. D., the new member in the team dedicated to consulting service and analyses. During the past few years, Benoit worked as a post-doc at the ‘’Laboratoire LASEVE’’ (UQAC) and as coordinator of Groupe BoréaRessources, a local company producing boreal essential oil he greatly contributed […]
New Chemist in our Scientific Team
We are pleased to introduce you Mr. Sylvain Mercier as our new analytical chemist specialized in natural product chemistry. During the past two years, Sylvain has been working as a formulation chemist in Les Produits Sanitaires Lépine where he developed new household, industrial and institutional soaps and cleaners. Recipient of a research grant of the […]
Wanted List
Hello to all, We at PhytoChemia are always looking at rare oils to enrich our database. If you happen to have a rare or non-commercial oil made with an interesting plant, we will gladly analyze a sample and share the results with you free of charge. We will even pay the shipping cost. However, these […]
Tiguidou or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Analysis
Hubert Marceau, chemist, B.Sc. About three years ago a friend of mine, who was doing her master on essential oils, was struggling with her analyses. This gave me the idea to automate part of the process by creating a small VBA program in Excel that would search in a database of retention indexes for potential […]