Pharma & Healthcare Testing

An Overview of Our Services

Our clients regard us as leaders in the industry. Our expert analysts can perform various tests for clients in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry.
Our environmental services for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry includes analysis of Reach Compounds, Comparative Testing, API and API Metabolites in Wastewater, Organic Solvents in Waste Streams, IPPC Licence Compliance and Organics in Water.

We pride ourselves in the quality of our work and the confidence you can place in our results. Our planning and environmental consultancy services ensure our clients that their operations are developed and operated in an environmentally responsible and sustainable manner and in compliance with their regulatory requirements.

Our services in this department include IPPC Licenses, ecology, noise monitoring, waste management, wastewater discharge licenses and many more. Our analytical capability includes effluent, water, wastewater and organic analysis for the pharmaceutical industry.

Our Pharmaceutical Analytical Testing Services​

With over 30 years of analytical testing expertise, Southern Scientific Services has become a reliable partner to clients in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors. With both chemical and microbiological testing facilities strategically located across Leinster, Munster and Connaught, we provide a national service that is both accessible and responsive to the demands of regulated industries.

 

Each client is assigned a dedicated contact who manages their project from initial submission through to final reporting — ensuring clear communication and continuity at every stage. We have built a reputation for reliable results that our clients in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors depend on.

 

Our testing capability includes bespoke testing programmes designed around client-specific requirements, method development and validation, and investigational studies. This flexibility, combined with an extensive suite of analytical instrumentation, makes us the trusted choice for pharmaceutical and healthcare clients across Ireland.

Method Development & Feasibility

  • Proof-of-concept studies 
  • R&D stage analytical support 
  • Method design & optimisation 
  • Broad instrument range: HPLC, GC-MS, LC-MS/MS, ICP-MS, IC, TOC, UV-Vis & more

 

Method Validation

  • Validation support services
  • Specificity, linearity, accuracy, precision, LOD/LOQ, robustness

Raw Material & Chemical Testing

  • Identity 
  • Purity & assay (HPLC, LC-MS/MS) 
  • Elemental impurities — ICP-MS 
  • Organic impurity screening LC MS/MS

 

Reference Method Comparison & Equivalence

  • Ph.Eur./USP/BP reference comparisons 
  • Supplier qualification comparisons 
  • Inter-laboratory & proficiency support 

Our Environmental & Occupational Hygiene Testing Services​

Our environmental services for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry includes analysis of Reach Compounds, Comparative Testing, API and API Metabolites in Wastewater, Organic Solvents in Waste Streams, IPPC Licence Compliance and Organics in Water, PNEC assessments, Quaternary Treatment testing and consultancy service.

 

Our planning and environmental consultancy services ensure our clients that their operations are developed and operated in an environmentally responsible and sustainable manner and in compliance with their regulatory requirements.

Our services in this department include IPPC Licenses, ecology, noise monitoring, waste management, wastewater discharge licenses and many more. Our analytical capability includes effluent, water, wastewater and organic analysis for the pharmaceutical industry.

Environmental & Occupational Testing Services

  • Comprehensive analytical solutions for industry, pharma, and environmental compliance

 

Regulatory & Licence Compliance

  • IPC/IE licence compliance
  • Integrated site facility environmental monitoring
  • WAC contaminated land analysis
  • REACH compound testing

 

Water & Wastewater Analysis

  • API and API metabolites in wastewater
  • Organic solvents monitoring
  • PFAS (incl. TFA) in soil/water
  • Legionella testing
  • Quaternary molecule treatment support

Occupational & Air Quality

  • Occupational hygiene monitoring
  • Metal dust & particulate monitoring

 

Pharmaceutical Environmental Impact

  • Analytical method development to ppb levels
  • Pharmaceuticals in the environment
  • PNEC testing

 

Emerging Contaminants

  • Microplastics analysis
  • PFAS including TFA
  • PNEC & environmental fate

 

Ecology & Site Assessment

  • EIA & habitat surveys

Everything You Need To Know About Our Services To The Pharmaceutical Sector

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IPC Licence Compliance

The Environmental Consultancy Department at Southern Scientific can undertake all the required work to make the application.

API & API Metabolites in Wastewater

The team at Southern Scientific works with major international pharmaceutical manufacturers in Ireland to develop analytical procedures for trace quantities of pharmaceutical API and API metabolites in wastewater.

REACH Compounds

At Southern Scientific, we can determine trace quantities of a Reach regulated compound (4-tert Octylphenol ethoxylate detergent and its degradants) in wastewater.

Organic Solvents in Waste Streams

Organic solvents are commonly used in many industries including, food, textile and the pharmaceutical industry.

Organics In Water Test

This is a broad suite of substances which covers the by-products of chlorination, industrial contamination, hydrocarbons, solvents, and pesticides.

Comparative Testing

Southern Scientific carries out Comparative Testing for our clients in the pharmaceutical industry.

Our laboratories are well equipped with the latest instrumentation which includes

We have achieved accreditation to ISO 17025 for metals testing of final pharmaceutical preparations in accordance with USP 232, EP, EMEA requirements.
Our newly acquired ICPMS instrumentation can detect down to parts per billion of lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury and many more elements.

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