ANALYSIS OF FOODSTUFFS:
 Physicochemical tests provide accurate information about a product and raw material quality, nutritional value and health safety of foodstuffs and feeds. Avoiding these tests may generate costs from:
• inappropriate quality of a raw material thus influencing the technological process and the quality of the final product
• inappropriate quality of the final product and the lack of acceptance from the final consumer
• hazards to health safety
Each of such cases may cause not only financial loss but also loss of a contracting party and decrease in the company's overall image.
Correct results of laboratory tests confirming a raw material’s quality may persuade a potential contracting party and ensure quality of the technological process in use.
A consumer may also be encouraged by nutritional value tests of foodstuffs and their labelling according to: Guideline Daily Amount illustrates not only the composition of a product but also its nutritional value.
Rules of labelling with nutritional value are shown in the leaflet (download) 
FOOD ANALYSES offered by our laboratory:
1. Nutritional value / GDA: protein, fat, carbohydrates, sugars, fibre, sodium, saturated fatty acids, vitamins A, B, C, D, E, K, PP, group B, micro and macro elements
2. Quality parameters and contents: moistness, fragmentation, ethanol content, acidity, ash, organic and non-organic contaminants, glucose
3. Food additives:
- dyes
- preservatives and antioxidants: BHT, BHA, sorbic acid, benzoic acid, propionic acid, sulphur dioxide
- aromas, e.g. vanilla
- caffeine
- taurine
4. Contaminants and undesirable substances (according to the directive WE 1881/2006):
- nitrates,
- mikotoxins: aflatoxins B1, B2, G1, G2 and M1, patulin, ochratoxin A, deoxynivalenol, zearalenone, fumonisins, toxin T - 2 and HT - 2
- lead, cadmium, mercury, tin
- benzopyrene
- dioxins and dioxin-like PCB
5. other contaminants:
- other toxic metals
- residues of plant protection agents
- residues of veterinarian medicines
- radioactivity: general content of radionucleoids, strontium 90, caesium 137
6. Allergens i.e.: gluten, nut proteins (hazelnut, peanut), soya, milk - presence and content in food, cleanliness of technological line
7. Genetically Modified Organisms - GMO: presence and content in food
8. Adulteration of food: presence of alien fats in dairy products
Allergen testing and GMO offered by our laboratory:
- raw materials
- ready product
- cleanliness of technological line
The aim of testing the technological line is to evaluate the potential possibility of contamination of the process on technological line with allergens used in the technological process without using raw materials containing this allergen e.g.: nut. Another aim is to test such line's efficiency.
We help in validation of the technological line washing process and in identifying potential product contamination points.
Because of the fact that both the presence of allergens as well as GMO* in food are liable for compulsory tagging the identification of their real presence will enable tagging only in necessary cases. This will not limit the group of consumers interested in buying the product.
* content of GMO > 0,9% - at lower values tagging is not compulsory but the producer is obliged to justify contaminations.
Analyses of feeds offered by our laboratory:
- fundamental nutrient elements (dry mass, raw ash, raw fat, raw fibre, general protein, starch, sugar)
- amino acids (general amino acids, sulphur amino acids and tryptophan)
lipid fraction (fatty acids' content, parameters of fat quality assessment)
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- mineral ingredients (chlorides, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, ferrum, manganese, zinc, copper, molybdenum, cobalt, selenium, iodine)
- undesirable and harmful components of plant origin (antitripsin activity, urease and phytynian activity, elements and undesirable compounds such as fluoride, arsenic, nitrates, cadmium, lead, mercury)
- identification of active substances, feeds and protein addittives and their significance in premixes and/or feeds (vitamins A, E, B1, B2 and ionophoric coccidiostats,
- assessment parameters of feeds manufacturing processes (level of mixing)
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Genetically Modified Organisms - GMO
- Contaminants and undesirable substances: mikotoxins, dioxins, dioxin-like PCB, heavy metals, residues of plant protection agents
- Residues of veterinarian medicines
Testing methods comply with the Directive MRiRW from 27.06.2007 regarding the methodology of analytical actions in terms of the level of nutrient content and additives in feeds, premixes, feed mixes, medicinal feeds. It also complies with the Directive of the European Commission 152/2009 lying down the methods of sampling and analysis for the official control of feed.
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