Food & Agriculture
- Overview
- Soil & Plant Analysis
- Residues & Contamination
- Nutrition & Labelling
- Carbon Accounting
- Food Analysis
- Export Accreditation
- GMOs & Speciation
- Wine & Olive Oil
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Using science in wine and olive oil production
Wine
ChemCentre offers a range of high quality and cost effective services to help you improve your vineyards, ensure your wines are distinctive, innovative and excellent and allow you to easily acquire your export certificates.
We can assist you with managing the risk associated with operating a vineyard and winery:
- Labeling requirements
- Wine and leaf analysis
- Soil and water quality
- Environmental monitoring
- Export certificates
And we can provide chemical analysis and professional advice to reduce uncertainty in areas that you may require, including:
- Soil (acidity, salinity, nutrient status, trace elements, phosphate retention)
- Water (full range of chemical tests available, waste water, bore water)
- Wine (accidity, organic acids, sulfur dioxide, metals)
- Vine nutrition (leaf, nitrate, major elements, trace element deficiency, fertiliser and lime imputs)
- Land sustainability (accidity, salinity, nutrient retention, stability, heavy metals, pesticides, herbicides)
Wine Export
ChemCentre undertakes all of the wine analysis requirements for export accreditation as required by the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation including: alcohol, volatile acidity, total acidity, sulphur dioxide free and total, SG, pH, sugars, total dry extract and sorbic acid.
The main certificates required for exporting wines are: AWBC (which covers most of Asia and North America), VI-1 (covers EU), Japanese export certificate and Taiwan export certificate.
Olive Oil
The production of olives in Western Australia is a rapidly developing industry. Expansion into new areas of the state requires careful assessment of soil conditions and water quality.
ChemCentre offers growers and producers a complete and expert service - from initial land and water assessment, through plant nutrition to final product quality - in order to help you achieve optimum conditions for both olive yield and olive oil quality.
Oils and table olives are assessed for compliance with the Australian Food Standards code and information provided on the individual characteristics of the product can assist in product marketing.
We can provide chemical analysis and professional advice in areas including:
- Soil quality (acidity, salinity, nutrient status, clay content, phosphate retention, water retention)
- Plant and product analysis (tissue (YML), major elements, trace elements, fertiliser, fatty acid, iodine, oil analysis etc)
- Environmental management (nutrient retention, analysis of waste, physical problems, heavy metals, pesticides, herbicides)
