MICATES RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS (MICATES), is the Analytical and contract research division of Pretty Petals Private Limited, a company with diverse interests in Healthcare and Nutrition. It is an integrated Pharmaceuticals and Food testing as well as research facility with capabilities and plans to further foray into Petrochemicals and Environmental testing.
MICATES is managed by a team that have extensive experience in developing, manufacturing, testing and marketing pharmaceutical formulations and APIs as well as consumer products over many decades. Micates’ strength lies in:
• Highly qualified, trained and experienced manpower
• Sophisticated, state of the art and modern equipment
• Well defined systems and a culture of no compromise on the quality and integrity of services performed
It aims to become one of the foremost service providers in Pharmaceuticals and food safety analysis, offering a wide range of product development assistance and analytical services, technical advice, consultation and training.
MICATES continuously strives to provide efficient and cost effective analytical and research services for pharmaceuticals, food, Petrochemical and environment all over the country. Industry has to gear up to meet a challenging environment with ever increasing regulation and consumer demand to continuously improve quality standards. Micates aims to provide an ultra modern, future-ready laboratory at par with International benchmarks for complete analysis related to these fields.
• To be one of the leading providers of analytical and research services in Pharmaceuticals, Food, Petrochemicals and Environment.
• To deploy a comprehensive range of state-of-the-art equipment & infrastructure and use modern analytical techniques to continuously strive to achieve the heights of excellence in meeting customers' expectations through timely delivery of quality, accurate & precise services as committed, while maintaining confidentiality.
MICATES has a range of sophisticated instruments to meet the current requirements of Pharmaceutical and Food analysis with 21 CFR compliant software and documentation as per international guidelines to ensure traceability of data at each step.
MICATES has Independent Laboratories for following services:
• Complete Pharma analytical solution with the expertise of experienced personnel including analytical method development or method validation.
• Dissolution Profile/ comparative dissolution studies.
• Process Validation protocol design and analytical services including services at customer site.
• Cleaning validation protocol design and analytical services including services at customer site.
• Residual Analysis as per USP or other specific guidelines.
• Food and Agri Product Analysis
• Microbiological Analysis including Antibiotic Assay, Sterility and Limit Testing in API and Formulations of Pharma, Cosmetic and Agro Products
• Preservative efficacy testing
• Disinfectant efficacy testing
• Environmental Testing
• Water & Waste Water Testing
• Metals & Mineral Analysis
• Plastic Product Testing
• Packaging analysis
• Stability Studies as per ICH and country specific guidelines
• Ethylene Oxide Analysis on GC and GCMS
• Elemental Qualitative & Quantitative Analysis by ICPMS in Pharma, Cosmetic and Agri products.
• Leachability Testing in packaging Material
• Elemental Impurities/ Heavy Metals by ICPMS
• Sterility Testing
• Nitrosamine/ Genotoxic Impurities Analysis
• Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)
• Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrography (GC- MS/MS)
• Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS)
• Viscometer with Helipath Stand
• UV VIS Spectrophotometer
• Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)
• High-performance liquid chromatography HPLC with UV, PDA, Fluorescence and Refractive Index Detectors
• Gas Chromatography with Head space
• Kjeldahl & Soxhlet Apparatus
• Microwave Digestion And Synthesis System
• Karl Fischer Titrator
• Autoclave (Vertical)
• Double Door (Horizontal)
• Refrigerated Centrifuge
• Polarimeter
• Electronic Colony Counter
• Electronic Analytical Balance
• Semi microbalances
• Refractometer
• Laminar Air Flow Hood (Vertical)
• Laminar Air Flow Hood (Horizontal)
• Bio Safety Cabinet
• Pay Off Test Apparatus for Cosmetic analysis
• Break Load Apparatus For Cosmetic analysis
• Scratch Test apparatus
• Penitrometer
• Incubators
• B.O.D Incubators
• Disintegration testing apparatus and Disssolution testing apparatus
• For Pharma IP/BP/USP/JP and client specific method.
• International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH)
• Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)
• American Public Health Association (APHA)
• The Food & Drug Administration (USFDA)
• Association of Official Analytical Chemists International (AOAC)
• Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)
• American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
• American Oil Chemist's Society (AOCS)
• International Federation of Fruit Juice Producers (IFU)
• American Spice Trade Association (ASTA)
• US-FDA Pesticide Analytical Manual (PAM)
• US-EPA Methods
•Methods developed and validated in-house
(A division of Pretty Petals Pvt. Ltd.)