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UFAG Laboratorien AG

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A Swiss pharmaceutical contract laboratory, registered since 1997 in Sursee, provides chemical and microbiological quality testing for business customers.

Listed - from four separately substantiated review fields. See them

Legal entity
UFAG Laboratorien AG
Registration
CHE-102.242.879 · 1997-12-19 (Commercial Registry Office Lucerne (Handelsregisteramt Luzern))
Location
Sursee, Switzerland Europe · Kornfeldstrasse 4, 6210 Sursee, Switzerland
Website
ufag-laboratorien.ch
Indicative price
On request
Report verification
Reports verifiable online
Order acceptance
No private orders

Four separate review fields

Existing overall assessment: Listed

The overall assessment is not an average of these four fields. Each field answers a different question and cannot offset another.

Substantiated

Who is behind the laboratory?

A responsible legal entity and its leadership or operator are publicly substantiated.

Boundary: Identity and responsibility do not establish analytical competence.

View 3 signals and their evidence
Signal profile - Counts show composition, not a score. Core evidence 2 Supporting evidence 1 Boundary 0 Contradiction 0
  • Positive Company registered in Swiss Commercial Register under UID CHE-102.242.879, confirmed by multiple sources including Moneyhouse, Yellowpages.swiss, Northdata, and the company's own imprint.
  • Positive At least one named key person is independently attributed to this laboratory: Dr. Martin Knauf (+3 weitere).
  • Positive The registered address Kornfeldstrasse 4, 6210 Sursee, Switzerland is confirmed by Commercial Registry Office Lucerne (Handelsregisteramt Luzern).
Partially substantiated

Is the procedure technically substantiated for peptides?

Specific method or process evidence exists, but the full method-by-matrix contract is not public.

Boundary: Lack of accreditation is normal here and is not a negative signal.

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Signal profile - Counts show composition, not a score. Core evidence 0 Supporting evidence 2 Boundary 2 Contradiction 0
  • Positive The laboratory names concrete instrumentation: nicht spezifiziert.
  • Positive UFAG positions itself as a contract laboratory for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry with quality assurance of raw materials and active ingredients as well as analytics of biomolecules (oligonucleotides, mAB) [5,7,10,16]. Pharma/biopharma origin relevant as competence context.
  • Neutral No verifiable accreditation. For a laboratory that accepts private samples this is the norm, not a mark against it.
  • Neutral ISO/IEC 17025 is claimed, but no entry in the accreditation body's own register could be cited; the claim can neither be verified nor refuted.
Verification offered

Can a report be traced back through the issuer?

A laboratory-controlled form or registry is available, but no qualifying specific report was confirmed.

Boundary: Report confirmation establishes neither analytical competence nor the contents of an individual vial.

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Signal profile - Counts show composition, not a score. Core evidence 0 Supporting evidence 1 Boundary 0 Contradiction 0
Method
Login für registrierte Nutzer
Verification path
https://ufag-laboratorien.ch/verify
  • Positive The laboratory offers a verification form. We could not confirm a real report through it, so this counts as an offer, not as proof.
Not publicly established

Has actual measurement performance been checked externally?

No suitable independent evidence of actual measurement performance was publicly established.

Boundary: Testimonials, report volume and average purity values are not external performance evidence.

No public signals in this review field.

Our honest take

Reports from UFAG Laboratorien AG rest on a verified institutional identity.

The company is registered in the Swiss Commercial Register under CHE-102.242.879 since 19 December 1997, with a confirmed address at Kornfeldstrasse 4, 6210 Sursee. Named leadership includes Managing Director Dr. Martin Knauf, Olivier Christen, Markus Hämmerli, and Christian Consoni.

The laboratory operates as a B2B contract laboratory for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry, offering chemical and microbiological quality testing of pharmaceutical raw materials and analytics of small molecules and biomolecules such as oligonucleotides and monoclonal antibodies.

It provides an online report-verification portal at ufag-laboratorien.ch/verify, which constitutes an offered governance mechanism, though the directory could not confirm a real report through it.

UFAG claims ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation, but no entry in an accreditation body's register was cited, leaving the claim neither verified nor refuted.

The public-evidence reason UFAG holds 'Listed' rather than 'Substantiated' is the absence of an evidenced peptide or research-chemical testing offering. The laboratory's published methods center on pharmaceutical raw-material quality and biomolecule analytics, and no public signal documents a dedicated peptide-testing service. This is distinct from neutral limits on how far this review can go.

Current independent evidence of analytical performance for a specific method and matrix was not found in the source set, and verified competence for peptide-specific methods could not be assessed. No community endorsements, complaints, or discussions referencing UFAG appear in the supplied Reddit and forum material, and no peer-reviewed study or independent press investigation of its analytical performance was found.

No public pricing is available; orders and prices are handled upon request. No concrete open concern was identified in the public signals. These are signals, not a verdict.

Below: the material this assessment is built on.

People behind the lab

Dr. Martin Knauf
Managing Director
Olivier Christen
Director of Finance and Administration
Markus Hämmerli
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Christian Consoni
Member of the Board of Directors

Accreditation

ISO/IEC 17025: Claimed, unverified Accreditation according to ISO/IEC 17025 by SAS confirmed in the register [14]. UFAG website states STS 0072 [1,11], SAS register lists STS 0455 [14] - discrepancy in the sources not clarified. Certificate excerpt [6] confirms organizational accreditation, but breaks off before listing the specific parameters. Peptide-specific tests (e.g., HPLC, MS) not explicitly documented in the accredited scope.

What is tested - and with what

Methods & capabilities Analytik kleiner Moleküle und Biomoleküle (Oligonukleotide, mAB) · biopharma_analyticsChemische und mikrobiologische Qualitätsprüfung pharmazeutischer Rohstoffe · pharma_quality_control

Context without a quality rating

These signals describe access, the public trail and documents. They do not colour any of the four review fields.

Audit complete

Access and offering · 2
  • Neutral The laboratory's public ordering route addresses business customers only; no private ordering route was found.
  • Neutral No prices on the website; order/price only upon request or behind login
Public and digital trail · 2
  • Positive Commercial register registration date is 19 December 1997, over 25 years ago.
  • Neutral The supplied Reddit and forum material contains no mention of UFAG Laboratorien AG; no community endorsements, complaints, or discussions referencing the laboratory are present in the source set. The sources also include no peer-reviewed study, independent press investigation, or community evaluation of UFAG's analytical performance.
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Last reviewed: 2026-07-14