New chemical analysis company caters to startups in Southern California

By Deanna Utroske

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New chemical analysis company caters to startups in Southern California
The Mass Spec Lab provides third-party high tech testing to companies in personal care, cosmetics, and beyond that’s meant to elevate the level of accuracy and ease regulatory approval for smaller brands.

The new lab, which opened its doors just as 2015 was drawing to a close, expects the biggest portion of its clients to be in the biomedical device industry. Though, Mass Spec Lab also serves the fragrance, fine chemical, personal care, and cosmetics industries.

“I created Mass Spec Lab to meet this growing need,” ​said Christ. “The pharmaceutical industry has been using mass spectrometry for quite some time, but we want to make this instrument available for startups,”​ Mass Spec co-founder Marie Dvorak Christ, tells the press.

Location

The lab is located in Irvine, California.  And, regional media is highlighting the new lab’s potential in the beauty industry: “The methodology can be used for chemical testing of products like skin creams, fragrances, eye drops and more,” ​reports Bianca Almada for the Orange County Register.

Christ concurs. “For cosmetics and personal care—Orange County definitely has that kind of business,” ​she tells the press.

Instrumentation

The featured technology in the new lab is a $350,000 mass spectrometer. The region’s nearest comparable apparatus is at Cal Tech university.

"Rarely found outside big pharma, a Xevo G2-S QTof mass spectrometer (Waters) was selected as Mass Spec Lab’s flagship high-resolution MS/MS instrument,” ​explains Christ, “because it provides both sensitive quantitation and unsurpassed capabilities in chemical identification and structural elucidation."

Regulation

The Mass Spec Lab helps its clients address analytic and regulatory challenges, like strict protocols and short turnarounds. Customized testing is the rule: “I created Mass Spec Lab to meet this growing need for high end analytical services with the goal of providing sophisticated analytical instrumentation, highly trained scientists, and a philosophy of services customized to each client’s individual needs,”​ Christ tells the press.

The privately owned lab also launched a website (massspeclab.com) the same time the new facility opened. The site promises that the new facility will deliver targeted results, empower product developers, and help clients find analytical solutions.

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