Through the specialized methods applied, its highly qualified scientific staff, ultramodern equipment, accredited system of operation and effective customer service, PTA Food Lab & Nutritional Services LTD guarantees customized coverage of the needs of each customer.
PTA Food Lab & Nutritional Services LTD operates the following laboratories:
PTA FOODLAB & NUTRITIONAL SERVICES
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- Chemical Laboratory of Food Analysis and Nutritional labelling (for various chemical analyses of foodstuffs and nutritional labelling)
- Chemical Environmental Laboratory (for chemical analysis of water, waste sewage, soil, leaves and plant tissues)
- Quality Control Chemical Laboratory (for chemical analysis of foodstuffs, cosmetics, building materials, etc.)
- Microbiological Laboratory (for analysis of foodstuffs, water and waste water)
Chemical Laboratory of Food Analysis and Nutritional labelling
The Chemical Laboratory of Food Analysis and Nutritional Labelling of PTA Food Lab & Nutritional Services LTD provides analyses for:
- Nutritional labelling of foods (moisture, ash, protein, total fat, saturated fat, carbohydrates, sugars, dietary fiber, salt)
- Preservatives such as nitrate, nitrite, benzoate, sorbic acid etc.
- Profile of sugars
- Profile of fatty acids and sterols
- Minerals such as calcium, iron, sodium, potassium, zinc etc.
- Heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury etc.
- Determination of mycotoxins and particularly Aflatoxins B1, B2, G1 & G2, Aflatoxin M1 and Ochratoxin A.
- Determination of Histamine in Fish and other products
Chemical Environmental Laboratory
The Chemical Environmental Laboratory of PTA Food Lab & Nutritional Services LTD provide chemical analyses of water, sewage (waste water), soils, leaves and plant tissues mainly for:
- Physicochemical parameters
- Analysis of trace elements
Quality Control Chemical Laboratory
The Quality Control Chemical Laboratory of PTA Food Lab & Nutritional Services LTD offers services to factories that produce, formulate and package various products. It operates as a subcontracting laboratory for the control of the production process of these factories.
The main analyses carried out on the various products are:
- The determination of the content certain substances in foods
- Stability check and the shelf-life of food, chemically
- The determination of the content of active substances in cosmetics
- Stability check and the shelf-life of cosmetics, chemically
- The determination of the content of special parameters on building materials
Microbiological Laboratory
The Microbiological Laboratory of PTA Food Lab & Nutritional Services LTD performs microbiological analysis on:
- Food raw materials,
- Processed foods (intermediate or finished products)
- Drinking water (tap and bottled)
- Sea water
- Sea water
- Swimming pools, Jacuzzis
- waste water after tertiary treatment
- various work surfaces or hands of food handlers during working or after washing and disinfection and
- Air from various locations where ready to eat foods are handled
Main analyses conducted on water samples are:
- Enumeration of culturable microorganisms 22 0C ( ISO 6222)
- Enumeration of culturable microorganisms 37 0C ( ISO 6222)
- Detection and enumeration of intestinal enterococci (ISO 7899)
- Detection and enumeration fecal streptococcus (Enterococcus) (APHA 9230 C)
- Detection and enumeration of total coliforms (ISO 9308-1)
- Detection and enumeration of Escherichia coli (ISO 9308-1)
- Detection and enumeration of Pseudomonas aeroginosa (ISO 16266)
- Detection and enumeration of Staphylococcus aureus (APHA 9213B)
- Detection and enumeration of Clostridium perfringens (ISO 14189)
- Detection of Salmonella spp (ISO 19250)
- Detection and enumeration of sulfite reducing anaerobes (Clostridium) (ISO 6461)
- Detection of Legionella spp (ISO 11731)
Main analyses conducted on food samples are:
- Enumeration of total microorganisms on 30 0C ( ISO 4833)
- Detection of Salmonella spp (ISO 6579)
- Detection of Listeria monocytogenes (ISO 11290-1)
- Detection and Enumeration of Enterobacteriaceae (21528-2)
- Enumeration of β– glucuronidase positive Escherichia coli (ISO 16649-2)
- Enumeration of coagulase positive Staphylococcus aureus (ISO 6888-01)
- Detection and Enumeration of Clostridium perfringens (ISO 7937)
- Detection and Enumeration of Bacillus cereus (ISO 7932)
- Detection and Enumeration of Yeast and Moulds (ISO 21527-2)
- Detection and Enumeration of Campylobacter spp (ISO 10272-1)
- Detection and Enumeration of Vibrio parahaemolyticus (ISO 21872-1)
- Detection and Enumeration of Vibrio cholerae ( ISO 21872-1)
- Detection and Enumeration of Escherichia coli O157:H7 (ISO 16654)
- Detection and Enumeration of Pseudomonas spp. (ISO 13720
- Detection and Enumeration of Lactic acid bacteria (ISO 15214)