Alkemist Labs Celebrates 15-Year Anniversary

COSTA MESA, Calif.This month marks the 15-year anniversary of Alkemist Labs. The company was founded in July 1997 by Sidney Sudberg, Ph.D., as a family-owned boutique botanical tincture manufacturing company, formerly Alkemists Pharmaceuticals Inc. The company has  transformed operations to function as a botanical identity for ingredients (methods outlined in this primer)  and quality control (QC) laboratory.

With a staff of 22 employees, Alkemists Labs has a large commercial working herbarium, a large through-put and scalable capacity for botanical identity testing, and a large listing of reference materials known as Composite Reference Botanicals (CRBs).

During the past three years, the company has expanded its global customer footprint. Alkemists has helped U.S.-based companies meet and maintain cGMP (current good manufacturing practice) compliance in formulation and manufacturing of their products, as well as foreign organizations selling into the U.S. market.

Elan Sudberg, CEO stated Over the past 12 months weve committed to  significant  re-investment into facility expansions, new state-of-the-art HPLC and UPLC instruments and increased personnel resources, and more is coming. The need for reliable contract labs that operate in this Industry with integrity, transparency and provide good data to support clients with impending regulatory or legal actions is great."

While Alkemists Labs continues to see strong growth in its ingredient Identity Testing Group (Microscopy and HPTLC), its Analytical Testing Group (HPLC and UPLC), which provides routine QC/Compendial testing, method development and validation has seen significant growth over the last two years.