Canada-wide mail-in intake
There is no counter to walk up to. Samples arrive by tracked mail from every province and territory, which means your location changes the transit time and nothing else about the analysis.
Request testingSearching for a lab nearby
Analytical testing is not a local service, and treating it as one narrows the field for no benefit.
A chromatographic purity figure is produced by a method, a column, and a detector. Being closer to the instrument does not change the measurement, and a laboratory two provinces away produces the same result as one across town running the same method.
Distance costs transit days, not accuracy. Target turnaround is 5 to 7 business days measured from receipt of an accepted sample, so the total time you experience is domestic transit plus laboratory time, and only the first part depends on where you are.
Intake runs on accepted requests with a pre-issued sample ID, because a package that arrives without one cannot be reliably matched to a client or an agreed scope. That process is what makes the record traceable, and it works the same way for a sample posted from the next city as from Nunavut.
The meaningful geographic question is not the distance to the laboratory but whether the sample crosses a border. Domestic Canadian shipping avoids customs clearance, brokerage charges, and the risk of a package sitting in an international facility — which is where samples sent abroad most often lose time.
Provinces and territories
Submit the compound and sample details, get method review and a sample ID, then mail by tracked carrier. Transit time is the only part of the workflow your location affects.
See the mailing workflowBefore you post
Use a tracked carrier, keep the sample in a leak-proof primary container inside a protective secondary pouch, and mark the sample ID on the outer pouch rather than the vial cap. Print the packing slip and put it inside the box.
Do not ship before the request is accepted. The intake address is issued with acceptance and can change.
Northern and remote routes
Territorial and remote routes add transit days, and winter weather adds more. If a result is needed by a date, work backwards from it and count transit in both directions rather than only the laboratory window.
Rush turnaround of 2 business days is available for $149 CAD, but it compresses laboratory time only — it cannot recover days lost in transit.
What is never accepted
Needles, syringes, biological specimens, and controlled substances are not accepted from anywhere in Canada. Hazardous or pressurised materials require prior approval as part of scope review.
Full requirements are set out in mailing a peptide sample in Canada.
Anywhere in Canada
