The testing of medical devices and chemicals – pharmaceuticals, industrial chemicals, agricultural chemicals, and cosmetic ingredients – is an essential part of bringing safe and efficacious products to market for human use. This is required by law.

With the passage of time and the changing economic climate, sponsoring companies in the Western world have increasingly sought to outsource this work to CROs in developing nations with the intent to fulfill testing requirements at lower cost.  Yet all too frequently, they found that the quality of the work performed at these institutions was not up to the standards they expected.