For over 37 years, EPL Archives (EPL) has focused on our ability to maximize the quality and extend the life of our clients’ research materials, data, active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), finished products, and legal retains/holds by providing compliant archive solutions. We provide these services to client organizations worldwide, from EPL locations in North America and Europe.

EPL’s complete solutions reduce our clients’ effort, costs, risks and complexity when planning, consolidating, transferring, protecting, retrieving, and disposing research and manufacturing assets. Our ability to consistently deliver high-quality services facilitates our clients’ need for global compliance regardless of whether their archive program is outsourced to EPL or operated by EPL at one or more client sites.

Centers of Service Excellence Deliver Complete Solutions
EPL understands the complex processes used by organizations involved in regulated product research, development and manufacturing activities. Our biorepository is organized into centers of service excellence that combine facilities, people, process and technology to meet your global requirements for short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term storage, maintenance and supporting services.

Sample Management: EPL provides comprehensive sample management services for securely collecting; indexing; storing; and rapidly accessing samples (e.g., plasma, urine, DNA, soil, and finished products) obtained throughout the regulated product research, development and commercialization lifecycle.
Specimen Management: EPL offers complete specimen management services that ensure quality preservation and rapid access to your research. These services include the management and compliant archival of non-radioactive and radioactive non-clinical test articles, study specimens (e.g. wet tissue, paraffin blocks, microscopic slides), temperature critical and controlled substances.

Data Management: EPL’s data management services include the storage, imaging and management of raw data; research data; study reports; and master files; electronic media; regulatory submissions; consent forms; facility and production records; and other records that require regulatory compliance.
Product Management: EPL provides product management services for custom storage and distribution of regulated products (e.g., an active pharmaceutical ingredient, lot retains, legal holds, drug storage depots, vaccines, organs, tissues, medical devices).
Logistics Management: EPL offers turn-key services that meet your requirements for compliant, secure, and environmentally controlled logistics solutions that support every phase of the regulated product research and development lifecycle from concept to commercialization.

Expert Advisory Services
EPL offers expert advisory services, including industry best practices consulting, that support your archive / biorepository strategy; policy; facility design; Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) development; operational assessment; process re-engineering; compliance audit; and quality assurance program development worldwide.

EPL also provides related services that provide you with well-trained archive / biorepository specialists for projects that include but are not limited to: site inventory; relocations; study audits; international submissions; material transfer agreement escrow; and global production and/or distribution logistics.