SGS Nutrasource's on-site clinic is staffed with a qualified team including physicians, phlebotomists, and certified clinical coordinators. Our staff members have extensive clinical trial experience in food, dietary supplement, and pharmaceutical research, ensuring we deliver the highest quality results. All our equipment is on a maintenance schedule with full validation and calibration records.
Our on-site Phase I/II facility features include:
- Restricted-access, temperature controlled and monitored pharmacy (455 sq. ft level 3 Health Canada security)
- Refrigeration (4°C) for investigational product storage
- Smart VUE temperature and humidity monitoring and alert system for pharmacy and all storage equipment
- Designated backup power generator
- Additional CO₂ backup on -80°C freezer
- Phase I bioavailability unit (up to 14 hr confinement)
- Fitness room for sport nutrition studies and exercised-induced pain models
- DXA facility located <1 km (<0.6 mi) from clinical trial site
- Nuclear imaging and X-ray facility located 4 km (2.5 mi) from clinical trial site
- Off-site long-term archiving and management of study documents for regulatory compliance
- Multiple private conference rooms
- Quiet areas for monitors to work
- Secure designated document storage room for investigator site files
- Secure, restricted access storage for medical files, study subject files, and electronic health records
- Synchronized atomic clocks for accurate records of time
- Integrated diagnostic boards with electronic thermometers
- Electronic physician beam scales
- Omro electronic blood pressure machines
- ECGs
- Dermascope
- Centrifuges with refrigeration
- Calibrated micropipettes
- Microbalance
- Biosafety cabinet to facilitate immediate biological sample processing on-site
- Refrigeration (4°C) and freezer storage (-20°C and -80°C) for sample storage
- Crash cart
- Wireless internet with Netflix for participants
- Full kitchen for participants
- Private washroom for subjects with alert for assistance
Learn how we can help you conduct your clinical study at our Canadian facility.