Intertek Analytical Services France (LaCoMeD)

Intertek Chalon and the LaCoMeD team form the Intertek Analytical Services France Centre of Excellence laboratory, providing R&D support and non-GMP production support to the global healthcare sector.

The LaCoMeD laboratory, located at Intertek Chalon, is our France Centre of Excellence laboratory, focusing on providing comprehensive testing services tailored for the healthcare product sectors, including cosmetics, consumer healthcare, pharmaceuticals, home and personal care, chemicals, and medical devices.

Our dedicated team of scientists leverages extensive analytical science expertise to pioneer and validate cutting-edge analysis methods, with multiple examples of first-to-market methods to meet clients' key regulatory challenges. We support clients from around the world with data-driven insights that empower innovators and producers in the health and beauty sectors, helping to expedite their product development cycles and ensuring that consumers get safe, effective products they can trust and ultimately fall in love with.

Cosmetics R&D and Regulatory Support

Cosmetics testing and laboratory analysis are crucial in ensuring that safe and effective beauty and personal care products reach consumers while meeting global regulatory compliance requirements. Our expert scientists support your journey from innovation to market launch by providing independent testing across raw materials, formulations, finished products, and packaging. Whether you're developing novel formulations or reformulating existing products, we help you reduce risks related to microbial contamination, preservative efficacy, allergens, phthalates, dioxane, formaldehyde, heavy metals, restricted or banned substances, whilst boosting innovation involving complex ingredients and delivering robust data supporting a good understanding of your raw materials, active ingredients, enabling labelling and compliance with key regulations such as EU Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, and other regional frameworks.

Biochemistry and multi-discipline approach

Biotech ingredients are increasingly shaping the beauty industry, boosting innovation in more effective personal care products. Our unique combination of biochemical, analytical, and microbiological expertise enables us to provide the most relevant quality and assay testing services for even the most complex ingredients, such as proteins, peptides, hyaluronic acid, collagen, and chitosan.

Cosmetics Production Support

Our Intertek Chalon team of experts provides robust testing solutions that support high-quality production and mitigate potential risks for cosmetics, skincare, sunscreens, perfumes, makeup, hair care, packaging, and more. From microbiology and contamination testing to raw material verification, preservative efficacy, stability, and packaging analysis, we ensure your products remain safe, stable, and compliant through every production stage. We help you identify and resolve quality issues quickly, enabling you to maintain consumer trust with products that meet specifications, perform well, and are safe.

Supporting pharma and medical devices R&D

Supporting early-stage pharmaceutical R&D or non-regulatory testing needs, we provide rapid, flexible non-GMP testing support for proof-of-concept, raw materials sourcing, stability assessments, and characterisation of novel compounds. With expertise in characterising collagen, hyaluronic acid, chitosan, and other biomaterials, our LaCoMed scientists support the development and manufacturing of wound care products, dermal fillers, tissue scaffolds, and hydroxyapatite bone cement and related products.