Food & Agricultural Products
We at Mettex provide
a wide range of food testing services delivered through highly knowledgeable
and experienced staff. We are equipped with state of the art facilities,
helping you produce best in standard food products which are quality-assured.
We ensure that your
food products do not contain contaminants and meet the industry standard.
We specialise in the
area of Food testing of Raw, Cooked & Packed Food items and Water.
Test results as per
FSSAI norms
Products
tested are :
1. Dairy&
Analogues (Milk and Milk Products Testing)
2. Fruits & products its and Vegetables,
3. Food grains & products its and Millets Legumes, Pulses, Cereals,
4. Meat and Meat
products
5. Egg and Egg
Products Testing
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6. Tea
7. Coffee
8. Fish and Fish
products
9. Confectionary & Chocolates
10. Sugars &
Jaggery
11. Honey
12. Edible Salts
13. Herbs, Spices,
Seasonings & Condiments
14. Non-alcoholic
BEVERAGES,
15. Bakery Products
16. Seaweeds
17. Nuts and Nuts
Products Testing
18. Oilseeds
19. Cocoa & its
products
20. Ready to eat
savouries
21. Prepared foods
22. Cooked foods
23. Fortified Foods
24. Alcoholic Drinks
and Beverages Analysis
Key Testing
Services :
1. Nutritional
labelling
2. Shelf life study
3. Quality parameters
4. Drugs, Antibiotics
& Pesticide Residues
5. Peperines
6. Analysis of
Micronutrients including
7. Testing of Sudan
Dyes, Curcumins,
8. Vitamins &
Minerals
9. Antibiotic and
Pesticide Residuals Testing
10. Food Proximate
Analysis
11. Microbiological
Testing of Food Products
12. Residues &
contaminants,
13. Toxins and Crop
Contaminants Testing,
14. Heavy Metal
15. Naturally
occurring Toxic substances
16. Volatile Organic CompoundsBrix
Laboratory
accreditation as per ISO 17025
● NABL
● FSSAI
● APEDA
● AGMARK
● BIS
● GAFTA
● EiC
Services
Offered to Allied Industries
● Hotels &
Restaurants
● Retail chains,
● shopping malls
& food courts
● Corporate offices
and industrial cafeterias
● Food & beverage
retail franchises
● Food Importers I
Exporters
Instruments/infrastructure
World-class
instrument facilities like:
● Gas
chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS MS),
● Liquid
chromatography-mass spectroscopy (LCMS MS) is available for pesticide residue
and antibiotic residue analysis in food and & agri products.
Major
Analytical Instruments
• LC-MSMS
• GC-MSMS with Head
Space / Purge & Trap
• ICP – MS
• ICP – OES
• AAS
• ED XRF
• GC – ECD/FID/NPD
• Ion Chromatography
• HPLC with
UV/PDA/FLD/RI Detectors
• UV- VIS
Spectrophotometer
• FT- IR
• Microwave digester
Fat
emulsions and Fats, oils
Edible vegetable oil
(coconut oil, sunflower oil, palm oil, sesame oil etc..) Multisource edible oil,
Vanaspati Cocoa butter Peanut butter, Bakery shortenings Margarine
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Services
list
● Refractive index
● BR reading
● Saponification
value
● Iodine value
● Poleske value
● Unsaponifiable
matter
● Acid value
● Cloud point
● Moisture &
Volatile matter
● Insoluble
impurities
● Lovibond color
● Specific gravity
● Bellier test
● Flash point (PMCC)
● Slip Melting point
● Peroxide value
● Free fattt acid
● Total Polar
compounds
● Clarity test
● Polybromide test
● Test for argemone
oil
● Test for castor oil
● Test for cottonseed
oil
● Test for
hydrocyanic acid
● Test for mineral
oil
● Test for olive
pomace oil
● Test for
semi-siccative oil
● Test for teaseed
oil
● Test for rancidity
● Test for added
coloring matter
● Test for sesame
seed oil
● Beta carotene
● Residual Hexane
● Phosphorus
● Oryzanol content
● Test for the presence
of animal body fat
● Test for tricresyl
orthophosphate
● Absorbancy in UV at
270 nm
● Delta K
● Allyl
isothiocyanate
● Synthetic vitamin A
● Color produced by
Baudouin test
● Fat
● Protein
● Salt (as NaCl)
● Total ash
BEVERAGES
TESTING
● Nutrition Labeling
● Testing of Sudan
Dyes
● Mycotoxins,
Ochratoxin, Heavy metals and Toxic Elements Testing
● Antibiotic and
Pesticide Residuals Testing
● Food Proximate
Analysis
● Microbiological
Testing of Food Products