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Laboratoire Phytochemia specializes in the standardization and chemical quality control of natural products intended for medicinal, cosmetics or dietary use.
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For essential oils and other extracts composed of volatiles (absolute, CO2, perfumes etc.), vegetable oils, plant extracts we offer services adapted to your needs.
Сannabis and Hemp
For pesticide or heavy metal assays, terpene or cannabinoid profiling, microbiology analysis, etc. Laboratoire PhytoChemia offers several services related to the chemistry of cannabis and hemp.
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Indian Patchouli : the analysis results
In the past few days, we have distilled by Clevenger leaves of Pogostemon Heyneanus (Indian patchouli). To give you a brief summary, here is the experiment in few figures: Leaves mass : 318 g. We have used frozen leaves, and have grinded them with a mortar. ...
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Corine Lormel, Ph.D. In the past month, several pictures of chemistry Christmas trees also named chemistrees probably blossomed in your news feeds. As some of us in the laboratory, you assume this phenomenon is recent and the pioneers are very passionate about...
The Mystery of the Unknown Compounds in Your Essential Oils Analysis Reports.
Corine Lormel, Ph.D. Some customers are surprised to see a compound named ‘’Unknown’’ in the listing of their essential oils analysis reports. Why do chemists keep them in all reports? Are they just unidentified compounds? Why don’t chemists try to identify them? In...
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