Sydney - Food, Pharmaceutical

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
  
   

• 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