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Laboratory: Background



2000
• Inauguration of the first facility in June in Rio de Janeiro.

2001
• First certifications (ISO 9001:2000 DNV/INMETRO).

2002
• Inauguration of the facility in the city of São Paulo, SP.
• Expansion of the laboratory in Rio de Janeiro.

2003
• Offices opened in Piracicaba, Macaé and Mexico City.

2004
• Inauguration of the Florianópolis facility.
• Expansion of the São Paulo laboratories.
• INMETRO NBR ISO/IEC 17025:2001 CRL-0178 accreditation.

2005
• Expansion of the Florianópolis laboratory.
• INMETRO 17025: The scope of this accreditation includes more than 150 compounds in various products.
• Development by Analytical Solutions of more than 50 new methods of analysis.

2006
• Inauguration of the facility in Natal, in Rio Grande do Norte.
• Newly increased scope of INMETRO 17025.
• Expansion of the reach of analysis of veterinary drugs and other analyses for the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA) within the National Residue Control Plan (PNCR).
• New system for analysis of antibiotic residues in tissue: the UPLC system enables analysis of antibiotic residues to be reduced to one-tenth of the conventional time, plus it has greater sensitivity to detecting traces in animal tissue.

2007
• Inauguration of the facility in Belo Horizonte, in Minas Gerais.
• Expansion of the Rio de Janeiro laboratory.
• Acquisition of a second and more modern HR-GC/MS, a high-resolution mass spectrometer that is capable of detecting parts per quadrillion (ppq).
• INMETRO 17025 accreditation of metal tests at the São Paulo facility.
• investments in the inorganic laboratory with the acquisition of new equipment (microwave, LAMBDAs).
• Expansion of the reach of analysis of veterinary drugs and other analyses for the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA) within the National Residue Control Plan (PNCR).


Three new units are projected to be opened at the beginning of 2007 in different states in Brazil, one of which was already opened in Minas Gerais.