Capabilities
Food testing and analysis
Nutritional Information Panel
- Energy
- Protein
- Fat – Total, Saturated, Trans, Monounsaturated, Polyunsaturated
- Carbohydrates – Total, Sugars
- Sodium
Pesticides
- Department of Agriculture
- IFIP Screen
- C3 Screen
- C5 Screen
- C6 Screen
Preservatives & Additives
- Sorbic Acid
- Benzoic Acid
- Sulphites
- Nitrites/Nitrates
- Inulin
- Maltodextrin
Other Nutrients
- Caffeine
- Total Dietary Fibre
- Cholesterol
- Omega 3, 6 and 9
- Vitamins
- Minerals
- Sugar Profiles
- Organic Acids
- Ethanol
Food Contaminants
- Heavy Metals
- Mycotoxins
- Aflatoxins
- Vomitoxins
- Ochratoxins
Other Services
- Meat Speciation
- Department of Agriculture
- Imported Foods Testing Scheme
- Export Control Testing
- Salt (as Sodium Chloride)
Plant Derived
- Gluten#
- Lupin
- Peanut#
- Sesame
- Soy#
Tree Nuts
- Almond
- Brazil Nut
- Cashew
- Hazelnut
- Macadamia
- Pistachio
- Walnut
Others
- Crustacean
- Egg
- Milk (Total)#
- Milk (ß-lactoglobulin)
- Milk (Casein)
- Sulphites
- Sulphur Dioxide
- Fish*
# NATA Accredited Matrix Dependant
* Based on cod fish detection on Northern Hemisphere fish and cross reactivity to other fish species
Typical Enumerations
- Standard Plate Count
- Yeast and Mould
- Pseudomonas species
- Bacillus cereus
- Coagulase Positive Staphylococcus
- Clostridium perfringens
- Enterobacteriaceae
- Lactic Acid Bacteria
- Coliforms, Faecal coliforms, E. coli
- Spore formers
Pathogens
- Salmonella
- Listeria
- Campylobacter
- Vibrio
- Enterobacter sakazakii
Other Services
- Shelf Life Trials
- Accelerated
- Shelf Life Trials
- Environmental Monitoring
- Potable and Process Water Testing
- Commercial Sterility
- Organism Identification
ALS offers a broad range of consultancy services to complement and add value to our testing laboratories across Australia.
ALS provides high quality consultancy support to food businesses, enforcement agencies and other stakeholders in the Australian food and beverage industry.
Whether looking to launch a new product/project, review or audit an existing Food Safety Management System or undertake an investigation into Out of Specification test results, our consultants will work with you to implement appropriate solutions.
Scope of Services:
HACCP/FSMS
- Design
- Audit
- Gap Analysis
Projects
- Design
- Management
- Evaluation
Crisis Management
- Investigation
- Reporting
- Resolution
Regulatory
- Compliance
- Labelling
Other Services:
- Grant applications
- Marketing development
- Benchmarking
Pharmaceutical testing and analysis
- ICP (OES, MS)
- Total Organic Carbon
- UV/VIS
- FTIR
- Fluorescence
- Dissolution
- Karl Fischer
- Wet Chemistry
- Disintegration
- Hardness, Friability
- Viscosity
- Melting Point
- Refractive Index
- Turbidity
- Conductivity
Our laboratories have a growing list of 500+ analytes and 800+ raw material monographs to assist with all your analytical needs.
HPLC:
- UV
- Mass Spectrometry (MS)
- Refractive Index (RI)I
- Fluorescence
Gas Chromatography (GC)
- Flame Ionisation Detector (FID)
- Electron Capture Detector (ECD)
- Thermal Conductivity Detector (TCD)
- Mass Spectrometry (MS)
- Triple Quad MS (MSMS)
- Headspace Sampler
High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC)
General
- Total Aerobic Viable Count
- Total Yeast and Mould Count
- Bile Tolerant Gram Negative Bacteria
- Coliforms & E.coli
- Salmonella
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Pseudomonas
- Clostridia
- Preservative Efficacy (PET)
- Endotoxin (LAL)
- Bioburden
Water
- Total Aerobic Count Filtration
- E.coli
- Pseudomonas aerugonisa
Environmental
- Settle Plates
- Air Plates
- Sampling