Practices Make Perfect

GLP means more to us than simply another industry acronym. It's become an important part of the way we operate at VARS. GLP refers to our compliance with the United States Environment Protection Agency's FIFRA (40 CFR Part 160) Good Laboratory Practices Standards and the similar OECD guidelines adopted by Canada. GLP improves the quality, reliability, and reproducibility of research work.

We welcome quality assurance audits from sponsor companies in connection with requested work and we appreciate their suggestions for improvement. By working under these rigorous conditions, we help our clients obtain the best possible scientific information and make the best decisions concerning their developing products.

A Complete Solution For Your Next Project

We can put our GLP experience to work managing your projects. You spell out your study requirements and we'll manage the entire project, while keeping you informed on progress. Typically, the sponsor provides the product, its properties, the types of studies required, the number of sites needed, and the basic study plan guidelines. We then handle the rest of the study management tasks.

Study management may include:

From our field research facility we can conduct all of your trial needs in Southern Ontario. We have developed a network of subcontractors across Canada and the Northern US with whom we have strong working relationships. This extends our services to other regions. Our experience has taught us how to maintain GLP quality standards over large distances.

The Complete Package

By offering a combination of Good Laboratory Practices, years of experience and a thorough knowledge of all present and recently introduced regulations concerning the crop protection industry, we can ensure that our clients optimize their product decisions by delivering superior test data.

Our professionals have experience with a wide variety of crops, soils and climatic conditions - experience that our clients can draw on to test their new products. As well, we can help our customers develop or review existing study plan features (eg. number of sites, sample size, etc.) in order to ensure that they meet the corresponding regulatory agency guidelines.

We can manage, implement and/or conduct entire research projects from study plan to final reports regardless of whether the project is local or spans several sites across North America.

In short, we are a team of result oriented experts who are committed to helping our clients meet their pesticide registration objectives.