 About Us
Vogon Laboratory Services Ltd. is based in the city of Cochrane, Alberta, in the foothills of the majestic Canadian Rocky Mountains, about 20 km west of Calgary. Nearest air service facilities are at Calgary International Airport (YYC).
Mission Statement
- Developing and delivering world-class services that are recognized by international standards and guidelines. To be a laboratory enterprise providing value to our clients through excellence in test results and services.
Accreditation
- Vogon Labs has been assessed for accreditation by Canadian Association for Laboratory Accreditation (CALA) to the ISO 17025 international standard. Formal accreditation expected soon.
Confidentiality
- Vogon Labs maintains strict client confidentiality. You can count on us to keep your privileged information confidential.
Key Personnel
- Ralph Hindle, B.Sc., P.Chem
Owner, President
Ralph is an experienced Senior Chemist with a diversified portfolio in trace organic analytical chemistry. He has 20 years of lab experience in the federal government, has been working in private industry since 1996, and is the founding president of three incorporated laboratories, including Vogon Labs. Ralph has performed and developed analytical methods for a wide range of target chemicals including pesticide residues in foods, human and veterinary drugs, pharmaceuticals and personal care products and other environmental contaminants in water, soil, food and feed and biological matrices.
Ralph has extensive expertise in applications of GC-MS, LC-MS, GC-MS/MS and LC-MS/MS. His specialty is qualitative and quantitative analysis by LC-QTOF, a high resolution MS technique.
Ralph is well versed in Mass Profiler Pro (MPP) for metabolomics, process investigations and sample comparisons at the molecular level.
He delivers in-house and on-site training courses in the use of LC-MS/MS (QQQ and QTOF) and GC-MS/MS systems. He is also responsible for overall laboratory management at Vogon Labs (day to day operations, system upgrades and new instrument acquisitions) and performs method development and analysis for various qualitative and quantitative MS applications.
Ralph received his B.Sc. in 1976 from the University of Ottawa (Ottawa, ON). He is a member of the Association of the Chemical Profession of Alberta, and is registered as a Professional Chemist.
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- Tracy Hindle
Office Administrator, Executive Assistant
Tracy owns the smiling face you will see when you first arrive at Vogon Labs. She is responsible for all Financial and Office Management aspects of Vogon Labs. She maintains efficient operation of the lab with proper scheduling and also looks after the ordering, shipping & receiving and many other “not in my job description” duties.
Tracy has many years of office management and sales experience, and was educated at Bow Valley College (Calgary, AB) and Ryerson University (Toronto, ON).
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