We have a simple aspiration

Our toxicology consulting services provide the highest standard of chemical hazard and risk assessment across the broadest range of industries and organisations. We aim to help our clients cope with the complex and ever-changing regulations framed to protect human health, and we endeavour to do this in a way that meets their time and budgetary constraints.

Our expertise

Hazard Characterisation

Our hazard assessments, generally based on in-depth searches of the scientific literature, aim to define the dose-response for all routes of each of a chemical’s toxicological propensities.

Risk Assessment

Our health risk assessments convert the toxicological hazard profile to a health-based guidance value, and compare this reference point to an estimate of human exposure.

Literature Searching

Robust risk assessments rely upon quality data. We are experienced searchers of major toxicity databases, giving us valuable access to Expert Group and primary reports.

Industries we work in

Our toxicology consultants have extensive experience, enabling
us to help our clients across various industries and sectors

Extractables + Leachables

We provide valuable support to the pharmaceutical, medical device and processing equipment industries by producing screening reports and, if warranted, full risk assessment reports relating to extractables and leachables (E&L).

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Medical Devices

We are adept at conducting biocompatibility assessments and biological safety evaluations of medical devices in compliance with ISO 10993, FDA and European guidelines, to help bring your device to market.

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Nicotine Products

We provide valuable advice on toxicological issues relating to e-cigarettes (and other nicotine delivery devices), and can support your regulatory submissions within the scope of EU TPD, UK TRPR and the US FDA PMTA.

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Food + Food Contact

Over many years our scientists have been providing independent assessments of the risks of chemical contamination of food and drink.

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At bibra we understand the importance of industry-specific knowledge – when people ask us what we do and how we can help them, we reply that we have one area of core expertise – toxicology – that we stick to, and do, exceptionally well.

Check out our latest blogs and case studies

Extractables and leachables: What the E&L are they?!

Blog articles

When we are unfortunate enough to have to take a drug or to be in contact with some sort of medical device, we are going to be exposed to more than maybe we bargained for...click to read about how we can help.

PDE for a leachable in an intravenous pharmaceutical

Case study

ICH defines a Permitted Daily Exposure (PDE) as a pharmaceutically acceptable intake “protective of public health for all patient populations” and provides specific guidance on the derivation of PDEs for threshold toxins identified as residual solvents (Q3C guideline) and elemental impurities (Q3D guideline) in pharmaceuticals.

Toxicological risk assessment of leachables from a combination product

Case study

The client was developing a ready-to-use (RTU) process for the administration of a viral-based product in a clinical setting. Bibra was requested to assist with the assessment of extractables during the development phase and leachables in the final RTU process - viral vector product.

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