LGC expands its reference materials portfolio with ChromaDex Reference Standards acquisition
LGC Group announced on 26 February 2026 that it has acquired the ChromaDex Reference Standards portfolio from Niagen Bioscience, adding more than 3,000 phytochemical reference materials to its broader standards offering.
For laboratories working across pharmaceutical development, food testing, natural products, nutraceuticals, botanicals, and authenticity analysis, the announcement points to a deeper range of reference materials in an area where reliable compound coverage can make a real difference to method development, verification, and routine quality control.
According to LGC, the acquired portfolio includes a wide range of phytochemical reference materials covering classes such as alkaloids, flavonoids, terpenes, carotenoids, organic acids, stilbenoids, vitamins, and other plant-based compounds. These materials are commonly used for ingredient verification, authenticity testing, contamination detection, analytical method development, and batch-to-batch quality checks.
That matters because many laboratories now work across increasingly complex raw materials and supply chains. In those environments, dependable reference materials help support confident identification, more robust quantitative analysis, and stronger quality documentation.
For Novachem customers, the update is especially relevant where laboratory work intersects with:
- food and beverage testing
- nutraceutical and botanical analysis
- pharmaceutical and formulation development
- natural product verification
- analytical testing in regulated or quality-sensitive environments
While the announcement is at the LGC Group level, it is still a useful signal of ongoing investment in reference material depth, particularly in phytochemical and plant-derived compound categories that continue to grow in analytical importance.
As laboratories expand work in authenticity, natural products, and complex ingredient testing, portfolio depth of this kind can help make sourcing and method support more straightforward.
For more information about reference materials for food, pharmaceutical, botanical, and analytical testing applications, contact Novachem.