Contract Laboratory Testing Services 

When you need outside testing we can help 

From Food & Beverage Manufacturing, Environmental, Petrochemical, Pharmaceutical to Paint Industries, and Heavy Metal to Medical Component Testing, Northern Testhouse is your friendly partner offering time and cost effective contract lab testing in the UK. 

Qualified and experienced Chemists available to help 

Imagine your machines break down and you need testing done at short notice. 
 
Or the orders come flooding in but you don’t have the capacity to fill them. 
 
Maybe your current testing process is taking too much time and costing too much money. 
 
Or very often the case, you don’t have the equipment, resources or the expertise to perform testing that is outside your usual remit 
 
At NTH, our qualified and experienced chemists can help. 
 
Our contract testing laboratory is available at short notice to test a variety of materials and products for the determination of single or multielement from our suite: 
 
Aluminum, Antimony, Arsenic, Barium, Boron, Beryllium, Calcium, Cadmium, Chromium (Total), Cobalt, Copper, Gold, Iron, Lead, Lithium, Magnesium, Manganese, Mercury, Molybdenum, Nickel, Potassium, Selenium, Silicon, Silver, Sodium, Strontium, Tin, Titanium, Vanadium & Zinc 

TOY TESTING 

Migration of heavy metals to EN71 Part3, ASTM F963, ISO 1824 Part3 etc 

FOOD SAFE PLASTICS 

Commission regulation (EU) 10/2011 and subsequent amendments, specific migration of heavy metals 

FOOD SAFE CERAMICS 

Council directives 2005/31EC and 84/500/EEC, ASTM C927, ASTM C738 for lead and cadmium release. 
 
Evaluation of aluminium, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, iron, lead and zinc to proposed EU revision. 

REACH REGULATION EC1907/2006 

Total Cadmium (Substance Entry 23), Total Lead (Substance Entry 63). 
 

REACH REGULATION EC1907/2006 

Screening of SVHC metals and their compounds. 

FOOD & DRINKS 

Determination of salt and Zinc. 
Determination of Iron, Nickel & Tin contamination through processing and 
manufacturing. 
Determination of prohibited heavy metals: Lead, Cadmium, Mercury & 
Arsenic. 

SUPPLEMENTS & VITAMINS 

Determination of minerals & heavy metals verify labelling claims and legislative requirements. 

LITHIUM TESTING & LITHIUM PRODUCTS 

Determination of lithium concentration in saline and impurities in lithium compounds for use in products such as EV batteries. 

COSMETIC TESTING 

Determination of sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, strontium, zinc concentration in finished products for relevant compliance limits. 
 
Determination of prohibited heavy metals: Lead, Cadmium, Mercury & Arsenic. 

PHARMA TESTING 

Determination of aluminium, calcium, iron, lithium, magnesium, potassium, silver, sodium, strontium, zinc concentration in finished products. 

QUALITY CONTROL 

Determination of metals in raw materials and finished products to specifications.