Your Challenge:
The requirement for testing food and agricultural products at each stage during its lifecycle from farm to fork has become increasingly important with each day that passes. The growing consumer awareness towards health, hygiene and safety of these products along with the complex regulatory environment implies that your product must comply with the relevant standards before they can be sold. The manufacturers, traders and importers are being held liable for sub-standard food products resulting in multi-fold losses to business and brand value.
Our Solutions:
As the leading player in the Food and Agricultural product testing services, ITC Labs offers One Stop Shop Solutions to its clients helping them navigate the regulatory and end user requirements. The lab has in-house analytical, chemical & microbiological set up. The lab is accredited and recognized by major bodies like NABL, BIS, FSSAI, APEDA, AGMARK, ORGANIC etc. to help clients meet complex requirements that the product should meet before being placed in the market.
Our services include testing for
- Quality of Food Products & Commodities as per FSSAI / BIS
- Pesticide Residues – Quantification of 525 + pesticides on LCMSMS / GCMSMS
- Nutritional Claim substantiation
- Heavy Metals detection & quantification
- Critical Ingredients & Chemicals
- Shelf Life studies (Accelerated & Real Time)
- Antibiotics & Antibiotic Residues
- Naturally Occurring Toxic Substances (NOTS)
- Aflatoxins (B1,B2,G1,G2) & M1 in Milk
- Ochratoxins
- Fatty Acid & Amino Acid Profiling etc
- Allergens – Soya, Milk, Gluten etc.
- Plant Extract Based Foods
- Vitamin Test – Complete Range (Fat Soluble, Water Soluble etc)
- Food Contact Migration Testing as per FSSAI, IS, EU10/11, LFGB and USFDA
- And others as per Client / Regulatory Requirements
Additional Services:
ITC Labs also offers expert services in many other areas included but not limited to below. Ask us about
- Nutraceuticals Testing
- Dietary Foods
- Hygiene Audits
- Retail store audits
- Food Process Inspections
- Cattle Feed, Pet Foods & Veterinary Foods
- And Others
ITC lab is recognized by bodies like NABL, BIS, FSSAI, APEDA, EIC, Tea Board of INIDA, AGMARK, MoEFCC, Drug Controller, GLP, APEDA – Organic, PCB etc. to help clients meet compliance requirements that the product should meet before being placed in the market.
Animal Feed Testing Services
Your Challenge:
If you are involved in the direct or indirect supply chain for cattle, aquaculture, poultry, swine and any other livestock feed, you need to know that the right nutrients are included in the right quantities. It’s also vital that the feed does not exceed the maximum allowed amounts of mycotoxins, antibiotics, other veterinary drugs, pesticides and other chemical contaminants. Animals that eat nutrient-poor or mycotoxin-high feed will not grow properly and will produce lower-than-normal levels of milk and fewer eggs. The animals are also likely to become ill and could even die – which also happens when there are excessive pesticides levels and chemical contaminants present.
If the level of veterinary drugs is too low, they will not work effectively. If it is too high, there will be unacceptable traces in the milk, eggs and other food destined for human consumption. Consumers need to be sure that their food has passed all of the appropriate tests for contamination.
Effective 1st July 2021 onwards all cattle feed manufacturers producing commercial feed materials meant for meat and milk producing animals will need to be in compliances with BIS standards and require BIS certification.
Our Solutions:
ITC labs as the leading 3rd party quality assurance accredited for ISO 17025 by NABL and recognized by Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) helps its client meet the BIS regulatory compliance challenge and in addition offers tailored solutions to your testing needs
Our solutions span from routine chemical testing including nutritional value, formulation, contamination investigation and more.
Animal feed tests and methods:
- Complete Testing as per IS 2052 (Recognized under BIS)
- Complete Nutritional Analysis (Protein, Carbohydrate, Fat, Sugar, Calories)
- Amino Acid Profiling
- Antibiotic Residues
- Aflatoxins
- Vitamin A, D and E
- Proximate Analysis – Moisture, Total, AIA,
- Calcium
- Cadmium
- Total Phosphorus
- Chloride, Salt content
- Fatty Acid Composition
- Crude Fibre
- Mineral metals
- Microscopic Analysis
- Melamine Detection
- Kjeld Hal Analysis
- TDN, Total Digestible Nutrients
ITC lab is recognized by bodies like NABL, BIS, FSSAI, APEDA, EIC, Tea Board of INIDA, AGMARK, MoEFCC, Drug Controller, GLP, APEDA – Organic, PCB etc. to help clients meet compliance requirements that the product should meet before being placed in the market.
