Food Testing & Analysis Solutions

From our state-of-the-art laboratory facilities, our world-class technicians use cutting edge technology including Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) testing, to accurately determine the presence of allergens, even at very low levels. Our laboratories can test for the majority of allergenic ingredients as listed in Annex ii of Regulation (EU) No1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers.

Our chemical and nutritional analysis service incorporates a comprehensive nutritional analysis on your products, helping you to comply with the labelling regulations in your destination markets, including the Food & Drug Administration in the USA with our FDA food nutritional label testing. You can also identify the meat content to minimise the risk of food fraud and to ensure your product labels are correct with our accurate and reliable meat species identification service. We can also assist with specialist tests for organic food, honey authenticity and honey and hive products.

Intertek provides expert insight and comprehensive solutions for food packaging, including migration testing, food contact testing, sensory analysis (taint testing), colour bleeding, resistance to saliva and perspiration, foreseeable use assessment, physical hazard assessment and many more.

At Intertek, we offer comprehensive GMO detection services and a certification programme to perform quality control and assessment of GMO-status in products and production. Combined with our analytical expertise, we offer day-to-day support to meet regulatory and consumer demands.

At every stage in the food supply chain, maintaining hygiene, preventing spoilage and avoiding contamination are important priorities for processors, manufacturers and retailers. Protecting consumer health by testing for the presence of harmful micro-organisms in your food and seafood products can be achieved with reliable microbiology testing.

Our team of world-class microbiologists use cutting-edge technology to test for the presence of pathogens like Campylobacter, Listeria, Salmonella and E.coli amongst many more parameters, in our state-of-the-art laboratories around the globe. 

Given the complexity of factors contributing to the shelf life of food, our experts can also offer a bespoke service which is tailor-made to the composition of your products, storage and packaging.

Whilst the responsible use of pesticides, fungicides and herbicides can help to bolster crop resistance to disease and pests as well as increase yields, the overuse or use of forbidden pesticides can lead to the accumulation of harmful chemical residues. We provide expert trace residue analysis services, helping to ensure your products meet the required standards.

Contaminants in food products can cause damage to the consumer as well as your brand's reputation. Manufacturers play an important role in this process and have a responsibility to follow guidelines and ensure consumer safety. Intertek understands these challenges and through our state-of-the-art laboratory facilities and testing methods we can help you with a range of  Microbiological, Physical and Chemical contamination needs including mycotoxins, heavy metals and process contaminants such as acrylamide and dioxins. 

The experts at Intertek can support your business in implementing a sensory evaluation strategy into your processes. We can assist you with the organoleptic analyses of food and dishes, including their preparation for characterisation of product standards and marketability monitoring at different stages throughout its shelf life. We can also help you with the organoleptic evaluation of honey according to the Honey Directive, difference testing for the investigation of product changes, product development, production and storage changes, the set up of customised expert panels for organoleptic analyses on a regular basis and training, including workshops for organoleptic analysis and customer-specific sensory training.

At Intertek we have a global network of over 1000 laboratories, including 29 state-of-the-art food-testing laboratories with centres of excellence in Germany, the United Kingdom and China, and expert testing facilities in the USA, Canada, India, Vietnam, South Korea, Peru, Sweden, Italy, Chile, Poland, Turkey, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, the UAE, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Philippines.