For over thirty-five years, ACTA Laboratories has run comprehensive quality control testing for pharmaceutical and medical device companies. ACTA is an FDA-registered, FDA-inspected, DEA-licensed, cGMP contract laboratory in Foothill Ranch, California, serving FDA-regulated products only. Our analytical chemistry and microbiology services include USP monograph and compendial testing of raw materials and finished products, method development, validation, verification and transfer, and ICH stability studies with storage in our own chambers. Techniques include HPLC, GC, GC-MS, ICP-MS for elemental impurities, residual solvents, dissolution, TOC and purified water testing, bacterial endotoxin (LAL), microbial limits and bioburden, antimicrobial effectiveness and in vitro cytotoxicity. Our DEA license covers controlled substances in Schedules I, II, III, IV and V.