COSMETICS

Fapas^® is a world renowned accredited proficiency testing provider, supporting the food and water testing industries since 1990.

We support laboratories to help them to achieve the quality of analysis demanded of them by their customers, accreditation bodies and managers.

We supply hundreds of proficiency tests a year to thousands of laboratories across all continents of the world, except Antarctica.  We supply real matrix test samples for all routine analytical disciplines in the fields of food chemistry, food microbiology, genetically modified materials, drinking water chemistry and microbiology, environmental chemistry and microbiology, and we are now adding cosmetics to our extensive range of products.

Our reputation as one of the highest quality proficiency testing provider precedes us.  We are often used as the benchmark against other proficiency testing providers are measured.  We contribute to scientific literature, both peer reviewed publications in analytical journals and in conference proceedings, and our proficiency tests.  Our schemes helped to define the IUPAC International Harmonized Protocol for the Proficiency Testing of Analytical (Chemistry) Laboratories (1993 and revised in 2006).