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Beyond Compliance: How the 2025 DGAs Drive New Testing Priorities

By Swathi Kodaikal | Feb 17, 2026

As guidelines shift, independent testing becomes the critical tool for substantiating claims and building consumer trust

A wide-angle landscape photograph inside a futuristic food testing laboratory, showing raw chicken, kale, and fruit on a conveyor belt passing through a blue laser scanning portal. The food glows with a green light after exiting the scanner, while scientists monitor data on large screens in the background.

A hand holding the glowing sphere, with its interconnected symbols of a lab, logistics, and nature, in a lab setting perfectly captures the idea of taking control of Scope 3 emissions.

Scope 3 Emissions and Outsourced Testing: What Contract Labs Need to Know

Jan 30, 2026

A focused contract laboratory scientist, wearing a white coat and safety glasses, reviewing complex data charts on a large, rugged tablet with various samples to be tested placed in petridishes on the lab bench.

From Compliance to Capability: What 2025 Meant for Contract Labs

Jan 8, 2026

A bright, modern lab interior with glassware or instruments in focus and a wall calendar and a 2026 planner in the background.

What’s Next for Contract Labs: Preparing for the Year Ahead

Dec 22, 2025

The 2025 Outsource! Week Webinars Available On Demand Now

Dec 17, 2025

A graceful, high-detail scientific visualization of the female reproductive system, softly lit, with the ovaries highlighted as luminous focal points. Floating around the scene, show abstract molecular biomarkers and protein structures gently orbiting or forming connection networks, suggesting early detection and diagnostic screening. Use a palette of soft rose, deep violet, and warm gold accents to convey seriousness and care. Subtle overlays of lab imagery (pipette tip silhouette, microplate wells, faint genomic sequencing lines) blend into the background. Style: elegant, modern biomedical illustration with a hopeful tone. Illustating the significance of ovarian cancer screening

Ovarian Cancer Early Detection Tests: A Critical Review of Biomarkers, Screening, and Clinical Challenges

Nov 10, 2025

The path toward a clinically useful ovarian cancer early detection test lies in the development of sophisticated, multi-modal screening strategies.

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Sterility Testing Guide: Direct Inoculation vs. Membrane Filtration

Nov 7, 2025

Laboratories must perform sterility testing to ensure that products are contaminant free

gas pump nozzle with fuel dripping on the ground illustrating the importance of BTEX testing

BTEX Testing and Analysis: Ensuring Environmental and Occupational Safety

Nov 7, 2025

BTEX testing is important for the detection of VOCs that may be detrimental to human health

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CLIA Certification: The Cornerstone of Quality and Compliance in Clinical Laboratory Testing

Nov 7, 2025

CLIA inspections and evaluations assess a laboratory’s performance, record-keeping practices, and quality assurance protocols

a modern lab with goniophotometer illustrating the importance of IEF File Testing

The Definitive Guide to IES File Testing: Standards, Procedures, and Contract Laboratory Services

Nov 7, 2025

IES testing data is essential for accurately modeling intensity distribution, efficiency, and range of lighting fixtures in various environments.

Quality control expert inspecting at chicken eggs in the laboratory.

Going Beyond Traditional Methods to Tackle Food Testing Demands

Nov 3, 2025

Here's how your laboratory can adapt to stay relevant in the evolving food safety and testing industry

Two researchers, one female and one male, examine samples in vacutainers before storing them in a lab setting.

How to Strengthen Chain of Custody in Third-Party Testing Labs

Oct 24, 2025

Unpack the critical processes that safeguard sample credibility—how to log, document, and audit custody in multi-industry contract labs

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Rising Expectations in Clinical and Life Sciences Testing

Oct 21, 2025

Stay ahead with data-intensive, digitally connected, and regulation-driven clinical testing lab operations

Announcing the 2025 Outsource! Week

Oct 9, 2025

A researcher with gloves works on plant samples in solutions and other glassware in a lab setting.

Expanding Responsibilities in Environmental Testing Labs

Sep 29, 2025

Environmental testing labs are expected to champion trace-level detection, metadata integrity, and sustainability

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Outsourcing and Sourcing Articles

Beyond Compliance: How the 2025 DGAs Drive New Testing Priorities

Scope 3 Emissions and Outsourced Testing: What Contract Labs Need to Know

From Compliance to Capability: What 2025 Meant for Contract Labs

What’s Next for Contract Labs: Preparing for the Year Ahead

The 2025 Outsource! Week Webinars Available On Demand Now

Ovarian Cancer Early Detection Tests: A Critical Review of Biomarkers, Screening, and Clinical Challenges

Sterility Testing Guide: Direct Inoculation vs. Membrane Filtration

BTEX Testing and Analysis: Ensuring Environmental and Occupational Safety

CLIA Certification: The Cornerstone of Quality and Compliance in Clinical Laboratory Testing

The Definitive Guide to IES File Testing: Standards, Procedures, and Contract Laboratory Services

Going Beyond Traditional Methods to Tackle Food Testing Demands

How to Strengthen Chain of Custody in Third-Party Testing Labs

Rising Expectations in Clinical and Life Sciences Testing

Announcing the 2025 Outsource! Week

Expanding Responsibilities in Environmental Testing Labs

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