SGS has entered into a partnership with Nature’s Fingerprint, a division of Molecular Isotope Technologies, specializing in product and process authentication via natural tracers, to mitigate identity theft of bio/pharmaceutical products and the patented synthetic pathways by which they are produced.
 
The partnership aims to allow SGS to provide an additional analytical service that uses technology to verify product authenticity, process authenticity and product/process infringement.
 
Nature’s Fingerprint’s technology relies on the precise determination of stable isotope ratios (naturally existing tracers) obtained by combustion and mass spectrometric analyses of either bulk phases or specific compounds. Nature’s Fingerprint applies these methodologies to bio/pharmaceutical products and processes, ranging from process authentication to raw material provenance identification and manufacturing process discrimination.
 
“Through this partnership, SGS now has the capability to enhance its analytical consulting and analytical service offering, especially with regard to comparability or biosimilarity studies,” said Mark Rogers, Global Technical Director, Life Sciences. “SGS’s unrivaled experience in this field will now extend to the selection and categorization of reference material lots and manufacturing process profiling.”