Laboratorio CIFGA

About Laboratorio CIFGA

Laboratorio CIFGA is a chemical-pharmaceutical company devoted to develop certified reference material of marine biotoxins and reagents for research and new therapeutic drugs. The marine toxins are serious health and socio-economic problem for the shellfish industry. The need to protect consumers requires complying with European and international legislation, with complex monitoring systems many countries have implemented. European Comission has issued a regulation that requires the mousse bioassay (MBA) to be replaced by LC-MS, therefore marine toxins CRMs are necessary and reliable tools to achieve this monitoring task. Laboratorio CIFGA has become the first producer of certified reference material of marine biotoxins in Europe. The company has a full complement of state of the art biological, organic and analytical instrumentation. Its products have been produced under the supervision of highly qualified chemist and biologist using an extensive and thorough purification process. Identification and quantitation are carried out by NMR spectroscopy or liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry. Therefore the quality and the reproducibility attained with their production method is a guarantee to all of their customers and an additional value of the products.