Services
Accugenix® Microbial Identification & Strain Typing Services
Charles River’s Accugenix® microbial ID and strain typing services offer unparalleled accuracy with the most relevant reference libraries of bacteria, filamentous fungi, and yeasts. We’ve driven the development and adoption of the most progressive technologies to improve our clients’ environmental monitoring, reduce their costs, and protect their brands. Our flexible solutions allow clients to outsource to our experts or use our services in-house
Areas of Expertise Included:
- Accugenix Libraries
- AccuGENX-ID®
- Microbial Sequencing
- AccuPRO-ID® MALDI-TOF Identification
- Tracking & Trending Data
- AccuPediaâ„¢ Database
- Strain Typing
Charles River Proficiency Testing Program (PTP)
Proficiency Test Services are statistical quality assurance programs that enable laboratories to assess their performance in conducting test methods within their own laboratories when their data are compared against other laboratories that participate worldwide in the same program.
Charles River offers the LAL Proficiency Test Program (LAL PTP) every quarter. The LAL PTP is a tool for confidential quarterly audits of your LAL analysts and ensures the internal quality assurance, helps verify methods, report validations, identify trends and spot possible training needs.
The LAL PTP is held on a quarterly basis on February, April, July and October of each calendar year.
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Microbiological Proficiency Testing
PT samples have to be right. Your laboratory’s accreditation is at stake, so anything less than 100% confidence is just not good enough.
That’s why we bring 20 years of multidisciplinary reference material manufacturing and certification experience into every step of our process. And that’s why our analytical validation specifications are more stringent than the current NELAC standards.
We start by certifying the purity of analyte source materials and then correcting sample assigned values for this certified purity. This correction increases the certainty of the assigned value.
We document the accuracy of each formulation and the homogeneity of each batch by instrumental analyses of each analyte in each of nine samples taken from the production run. No sample is ever released into a PT study unless the results of this analytical process meet our acceptance limits, limits more stringent by 30% than the current NELAC standards.
We close the PT study by documenting the stability of every analyte in every sample. This is your assurance that the sample was still right when your lab analyzed it.