Alkemist Labs, located in Garden Grove, California, was founded more than 25 years ago as an independently owned contract laboratory. With just under 50 employees in 2023, this small laboratory plays a significant role in the botanical testing industry. Their talented team members are experts in plants, botanicals, fungus, and nutraceuticals, and test them to confirm their identity, potency, and purity, as well as for any possible contamination.
They test everything from green tea to determine how much caffeine it contains, to cannabis and psychedelic mushrooms to determine its identity and potency. They also test botanicals to ensure they do not contain more than the legal limit of heavy metals, pesticides, residual solvents, and other biological contaminants. In addition, Alkemist Labs provides botanical reference materials. The materials are custom blends of verified botanicals from multiple sources, which allows for more robust identity testing than a single source.
Alkemist Labs has been accredited to ISO/IEC 17025 in the chemical field of testing with A2LA since 2015. Their scope includes test methods for dietary supplements, crude plant matter, plant extracts, oils, raw materials, finished products, fungal, algal species, and cannabis.