Food & Agriculture

NATA accredited

Surveillance services to ensure safety and quality

Chemist in laboratoryChemCentre provides a comprehensive range of analytics to support primary producers, food manufacturers, distributors, exporters, retailers and Government agencies - assisting them to demonstrate the safety and quality of their products.

Our capabilities include:

  • Assisting exporters to meet regulatory requirements
  • Identifying chemical residues in food
  • Detecting anti-nutritional factors in food and animal feeds (that can cause detrimental effects on humans and animal growth and performance)
  • Identifying sources of meats (eg. sheep, pig, cattle or poultry in sausages, pies, salamis, prepared meals, mince meat and meat meals)
  • Identifying the specie of fish from fillets or whole fish (e.g. Barramundi, Nile Perch, Red Emperor, Sharks and popular table fish)
  • Detection of genetically modified foods (eg. soybeans, soy meat, soymilk, tofu, soy bread and bread flavouring)
  • Identifying bioactive substances which can cause detrimental effects to humans and animals
  • Surveying of naturally occurring toxins in foods (eg. aflatoxins in peanut products, solanine in potatoes and patulin in apple products)
  • Assisting with nutritional labelling and legislation
  • Detecting and quantification of food components (eg. vitamins, gluten and peanut allergens)
  • Assisting with microbiological analysis and quality assurance training (HACCP)