Food Chemistry - Testing

Food and Nutritional testing has been the main business of ILS for almost 40 years. With our vast knowledge, experience and technical expertise, there can hardly be a food product or raw material that we have not analysed.

As such our nutritional chemistry and analytical laboratories are amongst the most impressive analytical facilities in the country.

Continued expansion and investment in new technologies, instrumentation and laboratory personnel has led to our scope of UKAS accreditation and chemical testing to be one of the most extensive in the UK.

Finely equipped with a range of instrumentation including, GC, GCMS, HPLC, Dionex, AA Spectroscopy, PCR, AOAC Fibretech, Protein Analyser, (Dumas) and NMR Fat Analyser.

Our wide range of food testing includes:

• Group 2 Nutritional Testing, including AOAC Dietary Fibre
• Group 1 Nutritional Testing
• Meat and Fish Contents 
• Elemental Analysis
• GMO Screening
• Heavy Metals
• Vitamins
• Water Activity (ERH), pH
• Allergens
• Preservatives (Benzoic Acid, Proprionic Acid etc.)
• Sweeteners (Aspartame, Saccharin etc.)

Our prices are competitive and the quality of service is second to none.

With our PDF email service for technical reports and sample collection service, we can offer a 6 working day fast track service as well as our standard 10 working day turnaround service.

With prior arrangement with the laboratory we can also offer an 3 day express service.

 Contact ILS - for more food chemistry testing information and prices