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Laboratoire Phytochemia specializes in the standardization and chemical quality control of natural products intended for medicinal, cosmetics or dietary use.
Essential Oils and Other Volatile Products
For essential oils and other extracts comprising volatile compounds (absolute, CO2, etc.), vegetable oils, plant extracts we offer services adapted to your needs.
Сannabis and Hemp
For pesticide or heavy metal assays, terpenes or cannabinoids profiling, microbiology analyses, etc. Laboratoire PhytoChemia offers several services related to the chemistry of cannabis and hemp.
Fragrances and Perfumes
With the help of PhytoChemia’s extensive GC and GCMS expertise, get detailed insights about the composition of fragrances, perfumes and aromas. Our analytical services can cover a wide variety of scented matrices.
An Independent Laboratory, for True Peace of Mind.
PhytoChemia is the trusted partner you need to guarantee the quality of all your products containing plant-based ingredients. Our recognized expertise in phytochemistry ensures you to receive high-quality advices and services that meet your requirements in complete confidentiality.
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A Quick Template for Technical Sheets
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...
Terpene Groups as Strain Characteristics
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...
Terpenes & volatiles analysis: Theory and Applications
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...
Heavy metals in cosmetics: Canadian guidance
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...
Optical rotation: application to oils analysis
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 right place to learn more about...
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...
Let’s tackle your challenges together
Every contract is equally important to us. We are proud to develop custom methods of analyses tailored to your innovative products.
PhytoChemia, part of Groupe Chemia
Laboratoire PhytoChemia and its two sister companies, AlChemia Solutions and GenoChemia Biotechnologies, together constitute Groupe Chemia. We share a common business place and our teams work together to offer your complementary services.
AlChemia Solutions offers essential oils and alcohol distillation systemes as well as plant extraction systemes in a large number of formats, for individuals or for companies, including the design of custom solutions for your production projects. AlChemia also provides numerous training sessions.
GenoChemia Biotechnologies is a microbiology laboratory with an accreditation from the Centre d’expertise en analyse environnementale du Québec for the control of legionella in water cooling tower systems, and also offers microorganisms counts in vegetable material, hydrosols, oils and extracts.