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BIOLOGY

Our state –of –the –art of biology facility has the wide range of test parameters from MLT, BET, GMO, adulterations and authentications to support the areas of drug & pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, food, agricultural produces, trade, environment and R&D. With our experience, expertise and cutting edge facilities, we ensure that our customers and their brands are protected and to fully comply with all the relevant regulatory bodies.

MICROBIOLOGY

Animal Food and Feed – Pet foods

Drugs and Pharmaceuticals – antibiotics, drug intermediates, API, Endotoxins, Microbial Limit Test (MLT), Preservative Efficacy and raw materials.

Pollution and environment – Air/Surface, bio-burden, estimation of classified and non-classified area, effluents /waste water.

Food and Agricultural products – Bakery and confectionary products, beverages, canned and processed foods, cereals, pulses and cereal products, coffee and cocoa products, edible soils and fats, edible salts, egg and egg products, food additives and preservatives, fruit and fruit products, herbs, spices and condiments, honey and honey products, infant foods, jams, jellys, sauces and concentrates, meat and meat products, milk and dairy products, nuts and nut products, oil seeds and bi-products, pet foods, poultry and poultry products, snacks and instant mixes, starch and starch products, sugar and sugar products, tea and tea products, tobacco and tobacco products, vegetable and vegetable products.

Marine and aquaculture products – fish and fish products, prawn and prawn products, shrimp and shrimp products.

Water – Distilled/de-mineralized water, drinking water, ground water, packaged drinking water, packaged natural mineral water, water for construction purpose, water for processed food industry, water for swimming pools and spas

SILENT FEATURES INCLUDES:

  • Well-infrastructure Laboratory

  • The Lab has well designed infrastructure in terms of separate partitioned areas for documentation, media preparation, inoculation, incubation and waste disposal.

  • Well equipped Laboratory

  • The Lab has appropriate instruments for carrying out analysis of the samples.
  • The Lab has all the required media and reagent stocks for carrying out drug and pharma, food and water testing.

  • Sterility Maintenance

  • Maintaining a sterile area for analysis of the samples is one of the Lab’s basic mottos.
  • Sterile environment in the analysis area is maintained by an overhead AHU (Air Handling Unit).
  • Lab is equipped with a LAF (Laminar Air Flow) and Class II Bio-safety Cabinet (BSC) which provide sterile conditions in working with samples and pathogens

  • Organized work flow

  • The Lab is designed in a unidirectional work flow e.  there is no chance of the samples being exposed to the external environment which leads to cross contamination, thereby ensuring the best results of the sample tested.

  • Timely Reporting

  • The Lab ensures dispatching of the reports on time, and refrains from unnecessary delays in testing.

MICROBIOLOGICAL TESTING PARAMETERS:

  • Enumeration of quality and spoilage parameters

  • Total Viable Count/Total Plate Count/ Microbial Count/ Mesophillic Count
  • Enterobacteriaceae
  • Coliforms
  • Enterococci
  • coli
  • Staphylococcus aureus (Coagulase positive staphylococci)
  • Bacillus cerues
  • Clostridium perferingens
  • Lactic acid bacteria
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  • Yeast and moulds
  • Aciduric flat sour organisms
  • Thermophillic bacterial plate count
  • Proteolytic bacterial count
  • Lipolytic bacterial count
  • Anaerobic spore count and mesophillic aerobic spore former

  • Pathogen screening by using PCR

  • Salmonella
  • Listeria monocytogenes
  • Pathogenic coli 0157
  • Vibrio parahaemolyticus
  • Vibrio cholerae
  • Bacillus spp
  • Staphylococcus aureus
  • Clostridium perfringens
  • Shigella

  • Microscopy with image capturing facility:

  • Howard Mold count
  • Yeast and spore count
  • Study of morphology of microorganisms (bacteria, spores and molds)
  • Count of pollen and plant elements

  • Tests specific to canned foods:

  • Accelerated storage Test
  • Incubation test

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY TESTING PARAMETERS

  • Detection and / quantification of GMO’s

  • in agriculture and agricultural produce viz., cotton, rice, corn, soya , millets and vegetables.
  • In cotton matrice as per ISO-IWA 32
  • in cotton for trait purity of Cry1Ab/Ac & Cry2Ab and herbicide genes

  • Detection of Pathogens in

  • food and food products
  • Beer and wine industry
  • agriculture and agricultural produce – beetle leaves
  • water

  • Molecular authentication of

  • meat and meat products (Pig/porcine, goat and chicken etc)
  • food allergens in agriculture and agricultural produce

  • DNA barcoding

  • for genus/species authentication of plant/nutraceutical products, animal and animal products, fish and fish products and microbes (bacterial and fungal)

  • Seed testing

  • Genotyping & DNA fingerprinting – ISSR, SSR, SNP and multilocus sequencing for identification
  • Custom services – DNA/RNA extraction, cDNA synthesis, primer designing, differential gene expression, parental polymorphism, marker assisted breeding, genetic purity (GOT’s) in various seed crops.
  • Seed health– Molecular identification of plant pathogenic bacteria, fungi and nematodes, screening for crop specific pathogenic resistant traits.