UTAK

UTAK manufactures quality control (QC) materials for clinical, toxicology and forensic laboratories, with more than 50 years of manufacturing experience. Rather than offering only generic stock kits, UTAK's "Purpose Built" approach formulates QC materials matched to a customer's specific analytes, sample matrix and target concentrations, so the control mirrors the exact method being run in the lab.

The product range spans Starting QC and Stock QC catalogue items as well as fully Custom QC formulated for a laboratory's own analyte panel; UTAK also publishes reference material on emerging analytes relevant to forensic toxicology, including novel synthetic opioids, gabapentinoids and veterinary sedatives such as medetomidine that increasingly appear in forensic casework.

Because UTAK is an independent manufacturer rather than the laboratory's own QC department, its controls provide the third-party independence auditors expect under CAP and CLIA-style compliance frameworks, and each lot ships with full documentation and certificates of analysis, keeping QC production off a lab's own scientists' bench time. UTAK is headquartered in Valencia, California (USA).