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Independent laboratory testing of herbs, plant extracts, dietary supplements and other foods to strengthen your brand credibility and consumer confidence.
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Our lab is where scientific rigour meets industrial needs.
Our researchers and analysts work every day to ensure that our partners' products meet the highest quality and safety standards.
Our decades of experience in the food and pharmaceutical industries guarantee accurate, repeatable measurement results.
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Our lab is where scientific rigour meets industrial needs.
Our researchers and analysts work every day to ensure that our partners' products meet the highest quality and safety standards.
Our decades of experience in the food and pharmaceutical industries guarantee accurate, repeatable measurement results.
The full list of tests carried out by Accredit Laboratories Ltd. Services menu item is located below.
Our laboratory works at the frontier of scientific innovation and industrial application.
See how our researchers contribute to the development of the pharmaceutical and food industries with modern analytical methods and reliable data.
Accredit Laboratory Ltd. is a company specialised in the testing of medicinal plants, plant extracts, food supplements and other foodstuffs. The company's professional managers are recognised experts in the field and the company is 100% Hungarian-owned.
Our aim is to products consumed to preserve or restore health are delivered to consumers in high quality. To achieve this we help with professionally conducted tests manufacturers and distributors, and we support their success with marketing tools that help their consumers recognise their efforts to deliver high quality.
We partner with businesses that put quality and the consumer first.
We help you ensure that your products meet the highest quality and safety standards. Our experienced experts will support your development with the power of science.
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Based on feedback from our partners, our lab excels in fast communication, professional accuracy and reliable results.
For us, every investigation is another opportunity to reaffirm trust.
Thanks to our state-of-the-art instrumentation and validated methods, the accuracy of the measurements carried out is internationally outstanding.
In all cases, the data are reproducible and scientifically validated.
Most of our clients choose us for the long term because we value quality and professional transparency.
Our services aim to build lasting partnerships based on trust.
He is the managing director of Accredit Laboratory Ltd., a specialist pharmacist, who graduated from the University of Szeged with a degree in pharmacy and a PhD in pharmacy. He worked as a herbal scientist at the Institute of Pharmacognosy of the University of Szeged and later became a scientific consultant of PharMagist Zrt.
He is an analyst at Accredit Laboratorium Ltd., who graduated from the University of Szeged with a degree in pharmacy and a PhD, and subsequently gained experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
He is a scientific advisor to Accredit Laboratory Ltd., a doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, a pharmacist and herbalist, who was the first in Hungary to scientifically test the purity of dietary supplements. CEO of PharMagist Zrt., author of several scientific publications and books.
The project of Accredit Laboratory Ltd., Szeged, entitled „Development of methods for the analysis of dietary supplements”, funded by the National Research and Development and Innovation Office under CA2024-03-Accredit, started in October 2024.
Herbal dietary supplements have become very popular worldwide in recent years. As a consequence of the increased demand for raw materials for the production of these products, counterfeit, inferior or ineffective substances have appeared on the market alongside high-quality herbal extracts. It is therefore becoming increasingly necessary for manufacturers to carry out analytical tests on herbal raw materials to ensure that they are of the right quality.
Based on the above market demand, the development objective of the project is to develop analytical measurement methodologies that will enable Accredit Laboratorium Ltd. to provide quality testing services for the production and distribution of dietary supplements.
During the lifetime of the project, 14 TRL 9 level analytical methods validated by NÉBIH will be developed for the quality assessment of herbal food supplements. These methods are predominantly based on the use of HPLC, GC-MS and spectrophotometric instruments. The methods to be developed have been selected according to market needs, with a preference for those suitable for the analysis of raw materials frequently used or frequently affected by quality problems (rose root, milk thistle, olive leaf, green coffee, ginseng, cat's-root, sabad palm, devil's-foot, diosmin-hesperidin, ginkgo, turmeric, frankincense, pseudo-blackberry, birch blossom)
The project starts on 01.10.2024 and is scheduled to finish on 31.12.2025.The total cost of the project is HUF 80 708 581, the amount of the grant received is HUF 62 137 537.
The project CA2024-03-Accredit is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Innovation with support from the National Research Development and Innovation Fund, Creative Accelerator Zrt., under the grant programme 2023-1.1.3-STARTUP-2023-00016.
The website was created in the framework and with the support of the Demján Sándor Programme.
One of the main uses of food supplements, other finished products and the raw materials used in their manufacture the most important quality characteristic is the active substance content. In our laboratory, regardless of the formulation, from pill to drop we can detect and quantify active substances, from simple vitamin preparations to complex herbal products.
We have the experience that particularly challenging herbal preparations necessary for the investigation. Herbs are very often supplied to the consumer as extracts or as products containing extracts of several plants. The quality of the product is influenced by each of the ingredients and even by the way it is processed. It is therefore essential that not only the quality of the herbs used is controlled, but also the quality of the final product for consumption. It is possible that the quality of the herb used as the main ingredient is excellent, but that the quality of the product is compromised by an auxiliary ingredient, a contaminant or even chemical changes during processing.
Product quality testing may be directed at the detection and quantification of active substances. Such tests may be necessary even if the product is made from a medicinal plant with a tested active substance, as the active substance content may be reduced during processing. High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), gas chromatography (GC), other chromatographic and spectrophotometric methods are used to determine the active substance content.
The key to the quality of a product or product raw material is that do not contain compounds that may be undesirable for the consumer. Our tests are designed to detect any substance that may be present in a product or raw material that could impair its quality or pose a direct risk to the health of the consumer.
Herbs or herbal extracts are a special group for purity testing. There are substances in medicinal plants that occur naturally, but their presence in larger quantities is undesirable. Product quality testing shall, where justified, include the following for herbal products added synthetic active substances also to detect. When herbal ingredients do not have the effect that consumers expect, some manufacturers (illegally) add synthetic substances to their products to achieve this. A special case of adulteration is when a substitute a rare or expensive plant material with a cheaper one.
In our laboratory we not only test extracts but also herbal drugs (dried plant parts used for medicinal purposes). Identity testing is the the basis for quality testing of herbal drugs, to determine which part of the plant species the drug under test comes from. The identity test involves several tests, as a single test is not sufficient for a definitive identification.
