AmSpec Group is a leading global provider of testing, inspection, certification, and environmental analytical services, supporting clients across the energy, chemical, industrial, infrastructure, marine, and environmental sectors. Headquartered in Cranbury, New Jersey, AmSpec operates an extensive international network of laboratories and service locations in more than 60 countries, delivering independent, accurate, and regulatory-compliant solutions worldwide.

Through its Environmental Testing division, AmSpec provides comprehensive environmental laboratory services designed to help clients maintain regulatory compliance, manage environmental risk, and achieve sustainability objectives. The company delivers analytical testing for air, water, soil, solids, hazardous waste, and industrial wastewater across a broad range of industries, including petrochemical, refining, manufacturing, engineering, energy, and government sectors.

In addition to environmental testing, AmSpec provides Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) assurance and sustainability services that help organizations improve environmental performance, reduce carbon impact, and strengthen corporate sustainability programs. The company supports clients through emissions monitoring, sustainability verification, compliance assessments, and independent assurance services aligned with evolving regulatory and stakeholder expectations.

With a reputation built on technical excellence, responsiveness, and integrity, AmSpec continues to expand its environmental services footprint while helping organizations operate safely, responsibly, and sustainably in an increasingly regulated global marketplace.

Cepham Life Sciences, Inc. is a United States-based manufacturer and supplier of life sciences research and diagnostic products, serving academic, clinical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, contract research, and food safety laboratories worldwide. Headquartered in Fulton, Maryland, and operating under an ISO 9001:2015 certified quality management system, the company develops, manufactures, and validates a broad portfolio of reagents, assay platforms, antibodies, and laboratory consumables, supplemented by contract manufacturing, custom buffer and reagent formulation, and genomic and plasmid DNA preparation services that scale from research bench workflows to commercial production.

Cepham Life Sciences’ technical strengths span several specialized areas of modern molecular and
cellular research. In proteomics and protein chemistry, the company supplies mass spectrometry grade proteases, proteomic grade detergents, validated protease and phosphatase inhibitor cocktails, and complete workflow chemistries for protein extraction, purification, quantitation, electrophoresis,
staining, and western blotting. Its antibody portfolio includes a validated loading control panel covering
GAPDH, β-actin, and β-tubulin, an established tag antibody set for His, HA, GST, V5, and Myc fusion
proteins, signal transduction antibodies, and AP, HRP, biotin, FITC, and TRITC conjugates. The company has developed a distinct specialty ELISA franchise covering food safety, drug residue, and species-specific assays, and a complete apoptosis and cell viability suite featuring caspase assay kits, caspase substrates, recombinant caspases, and apoptotic DNA ladder isolation kits. Additional capabilities extend to immunohistochemistry and antigen retrieval systems, molecular biology reagents for genomic DNA, plasmid DNA, RNA, and PCR applications, cell culture media, exosome research products, and an integrated laboratory equipment line that includes centrifuges, electrophoresis systems, homogenizers, transilluminators, and orbital shakers.

Cepham Life Sciences, Inc. operates as part of the Cepham group of companies, with its parent
organization Cepham Inc., a clinically focused botanical ingredient company, headquartered in
Somerset, New Jersey. Cepham Life Sciences is pleased to announce that it has joined the American
Council of Independent Laboratories (ACIL) as an adjunct member, contributing to the trade
association’s ongoing efforts to develop, harmonize, and advance scientific testing methods across the independent laboratory community. Founded in 1937 and based in Washington, DC, ACIL represents independent commercial scientific and testing laboratories and works through advocacy, education, and method development initiatives that uphold accredited third party testing as a foundation for evidence based regulation, product safety, and public confidence.

As an ACIL adjunct member, Cepham Life Sciences, Inc. is committed to participating in technical
committees, method validation activities, and consensus standard initiatives that strengthen analytical
practice across environmental, pharmaceutical, food, diagnostics, and life sciences testing. The
company’s engagement reflects a broader commitment to scientific independence, methodological
transparency, and the continued advancement of rigorous, reproducible laboratory science.

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Developed in 1996 to address the industry's quality issues and recognize those laboratories with exemplary quality performance, the Program provides laboratory data users with a mechanism to evaluate testing laboratories.  Participants commit to ensuring data integrity, meeting customers’ quality needs and setting performance standards for the testing laboratory industry. No other evaluation program ranks customer satisfaction with laboratory services and requires laboratory management to commit to a data integrity program.

As recipients of the ACIL Customer Quality Service Award, the following laboratories, presented alphabetically, have demonstrated commitment to quality and customer service:

• Advance Testing Company Inc., Campbell Hall,NY
• American Analytical Laboratories, Inc., Akron,OH
• Ana-Lab Corp, Kilgore,TX
• Atlantic Testing Laboratories Limited, Syracuse,NY
• Babcock Laboratories, Inc., Riverside, CA
• D.L.S. Electronic Systems, Inc, Wheeling,IL
• Neilson Research Corporation, Medford,OR
• NSF International, Dixboro,MI
• Particle Technology Labs, Downers Grove,IL
• RTI Laboratories Inc, Livonia,MI
• TCNA Product Performance Testing Laboratory, Anderson,SC
• Weck Laboratories Inc, Industry,CA

Recipients of Special Recognition Awards for timeliness and overall customer satisfaction, based on client survey responses and presented in alphabetical order for the top fifth of the participants, are:

Overall Customer Satisfaction

Advanced Testing Company Inc., Campbell Hall, 

NY American Analytical Laboratories, Inc., Akron,  OH

Neilson Research Corporation, Medford,  OR

Timeliness

Advanced Testing Company Inc., Campbell Hall, NY

D.L.S. Electronic Systems, Inc, Wheeling,  IL

Particle Technology Labs, Downers Grove,  IL

For additional information, contact the Customer Quality Service Award Program Administrator at (302) 368-1211 or email mmoore@advancedsys.com.

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Contact:   Richard Bright, ACIL Chief Operating Officer, (202) 887-5872, rbright@acil.org

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