Identity
- Dosage form appearance
- Qualitative test
Dosage Form Tests
- Disintegration
- Dissolution
- Uniformity of weight
- Moisture
- pH
- Friability
- Solubility
- Stability
- etc.
Purity
Bacterial contamination
- Contaminating fungus (yeast and mold)
- Total Aerobic Count
- Escherichia coli
- Salmonella spp.
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa (for liquids with low alcohol content)
- Listeria Spp (for dairy based products)
Heavy Metals
- Arsenic
- Cadmium
- Lead
- Total mercury
Other impurities
- Organic Volatile Impurities
- Solvent residues
- Toxins (e.g. aphantotoxins I and II, anatoxins, microcystin, cyanoginosin-LA)
- Polychlorinated dibenzo-para-dioxins, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (for fish or seal oils containing products only)
Pesticides
- Alachlor
- Aldrin
- Azinphos-methyl
- Bromopropylate
- Chlordane-cis
- Chlorfenvinphos (e)
- Chlorpyriphos
- Chlorpyriphos-methyl
- Cypermethrin
- DDD-op
- DDD-pp
- DDE-pp
- DDT-op
- DDT-pp
- Deltamethrin
- Diazinon
- Dichlorvos
- Dieldrin
- Endosulfan-beta
- Endosulfan sulfate
- Endrin
- Ethion
- Fenitrothion
- Fenvalerate
- Fonofos
- HCB
- HCB-alpha
- HCB-beta
- HCH-delta
- Heptachlor
- Heptachlor Epoxide-Endo
- Lindane
- Malathion
- Methidathion
- Methyl Pentachlorophenyl Sulfide
- Oxychlordane
- Parathion-ethyl
- Parathion-methyl
- Pentachloroaniline
- Permethrin-cis
- Phosalone
- Piperonyl Butoxide
- Primiphos-methlyl
- Quintozene
Doping test (for sport supplements)
- Amphetamine
- 1,4-androstadiene-3,17-dione
- 4-androstene-3,17-dione and/or 5(6)-androstene-3,17-dione
- 4-androstene-3 beta,17 beta-diol
- 5��-androstane-3 beta,17 beta-diol
- 5(6)-androstene-3 beta,17 beta-diol
- 5��-androstane-3,17-dione
- Cathine (norpseudoephedrine)
- Clenbuterol
- Cocaine
- Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA)
- 4-estrene-3,17-dione(19-nor-4-androstene-3,17-dione) and/or
- 5(10)-estrene-3,17-dione (19-nor-5(10)-androstene-3,17-dione) and/or
- 5(6)-estrene-3,17-dione (19-nor-5(6)-androstene-3,17-dione)
- 4-estrene-3 beta,17 beta-diol (19-nor-4-androstene-3 beta,17 beta-diol)
- 5(10)-estrene-3 beta,17 beta-diol (19-nor-5(10)-androstene-3 beta,17 beta-diol)
- Ephedrine
- Gestrinone
- Methylephedrine
- MDMA (ecstasy)
- Nandrolone (19-nor-4-androstene-17 beta-hydroxy-3-one)
- Salbutamol
- Stanozolol
- Strychnine
- Terbutaline
- Testosterone
Radioactive contamination
- (e.g. Asstrontium-90, Iodine-130, Caesium-134 and 137, Plutonium-239) if product is suspected.
Quantity
Assay of active components, Potency Quantitative test of medicinal ingredients.
*This list is not exclusive and actual tests may not be exactly the same.