Food Microbiological and Chemical Testing Services
Ecotech labs is one of the leading service providers for chemical & microbiological testing in India. The microbiological testing portfolio includes analytical services to detect pathogenic microbes and their toxins (such as Salmonella,shigella , Listeria) or organisms causing decay (such as yeasts, fungi or moulds), to provide hygiene checks (e.g. site inspections but also sterility tests in packaging materials, measurement of airborne microbes), nutritional labelling, analysis of heavy metals & pesticide, with the aim of making foods and other products such as cosmetics safer for our clients, meeting statutory requirements and protecting the consumer. Ecotech labs can advise you based on the matrices at question which tests/methods can be used reliably
Ecotech labs offers analytical testing for a large number of matrices in some of the following food and product group
- Milk and dairy product
- Ready to eat foods
- Bakery & confectionary
- Snacks and instant Mixes
- Fish and Sea foods
- Jams ,juices ,sauces & concentrate
- Fruit and fruit products
- Vegetables & Vegetable product
- Meat & Poultry Products
- Food ingredients/additives
- Herbs ,Spices & condiments
- Tea coffee and cocoa product
- Infant foods
- Nuts & Nuts product
- Oil seeds & By product
- Cereals, Pulses & cereal products
- Edible oils & Fats
- Honey & Honey Products
- Sugar and sugar products
- Pickle
- Salt
- Pet food
- Beverages
- Cosmetics & essential oils
- Packaging materials
- Drinking water
- Packaged drinking water
- Environmental sample
- Swab sample
- Hygienic scoring
Pathogens
Our microbiological testing detects and identifies a large number of pathogenic micro-organisms (pathogens), such as:
- Listeria monocytogenes
- Salmonella
- Shigella
- Escherichia coli
- Vibrio cholera
- Vibrio parahaemolyticus
- Clostridium perfringens
- Bacillus cereus
- Streptococcus faecalis
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Coliform
- Pseudomonas
Related services
In addition to the above, Ecotech labs offers some of the following related microbiological tests:
- Challenge tests
- Characterisation of micro-organisms (including the identification / characterisation of micro-organism strains)
- Shelf-life related studies
- Hygiene parameters
Nutritional parameters
Our laboratory conducts food testing for all nutritional parameters and is accredited by NABL for the testing of food samples and also we provide consultation on the labelling requirements of packaged food ,nutritional food testing services are as follows:
- Energy
- Protein
- Carbohydrate
- Sugar
- Crude fibre
- Acid value
- Iodine value
- Fibre
- Dietary fibre
- Fats
- Saturated Fatty Acids
- Monounsaturated Fatty Acid
- Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids
- Trans fats
- Minerals – Ca, Fe, Na, K, Zn, Mg, Mn, I, P, Se and many more.
- Heavy metals and pesticides
- Gluten
- Refractive index
- Sucrose
- Milk fat