devance Posted March 29, 2005 There must be some private commercial labs on planet earth that can do herb components anaysis in hiteck detail. Just how expensive is it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fractalhead Posted April 2, 2005 There are analytical laboratories scattered all over the place that do contract analysis. Like most things scientific, thorough analysis and unambiguous data (such as that obtainable by GC/MS or LC/MS) is bloody expensive (i would guess $50AU per sample minimum), especially if only a few samples are analysed and if the lab has to spend time preparing/fractionating the samples. While you can get a lot of really useful, accurate information from big fancy machines, these machines cost BIG $$ to buy and maintain and employ people to run them. This is what you will be paying for. If you have a fair idea what you are looking for, you might be better off to just analyse your samples yourself by TLC. This is cheap (less than $1AU per sample), fast and great fun although you may not be able to identify all the compounds in your sample. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
