Food Testing Labs: Accurate, Timely Results

As a comprehensive beverage testing laboratory, we offer extensive testing capabilities for various beverages, including juice, energy drinks, bottled water, iced tea, soft drinks, and more. Our services provide precise microbiological and chemical analyses with competitive turnaround time. Our testing facilities evaluate pathogens, spoilage organisms, indicator organisms, authenticity, pesticide residues, and beverage-specific properties. We support every facet of your quality assurance programs, from environmental monitoring to verifying label claims.

We assist cheese product manufacturers with a comprehensive suite of microbiology testing, analytical chemistry, and contract research projects. Our services include pathogen testing (including Listeria, Salmonella, Staphylococcus enterotoxin, Bacillus cereus, Cronobacter sakazakii), evaluation of indicator organisms, spoilage organisms, shelf-life studies, challenge studies, allergen testing, sensory analysis, and additional specialized tests.

Our partner company under the Certified Group banner, Certified Laboratories, assists in getting your products released from FDA import detention quickly. Leveraging 40+ years of experience and an expert team that includes several former FDA employees, we offer FDA-accepted testing methods, expert consultation, and nationwide sampling services, ensuring fast, effective resolution to your import detention issues.

Our fellow Certified Group company, Certified Laboratories, offers a comprehensive range of microbiological testing services for nuts and spices. Analyses range from Total Plate Count, Yeast & Mold, and Aflatoxin analysis to pathogens such as E. coli, Salmonella, and Listeria.

Testing for spices and seasonings include analyses for Sudan and other dyes, covering spices and other products both by HPLC and HPLC/MS-MS. Our team helped establish and validate the current method for ASTA (American Spice Trade Association). Our staff is well trained in all spice analyses including Piperine, Heat by HPLC, and Steam Volatile Oil (SVO).

We are a leader in food testing for the poultry and egg industries, offering a variety of traditional and rapid-result assays that are validated for poultry and egg products. Our full range of services include testing for pathogens (Salmonella, Campylobacter, E. coli, and Staphylococcus aureus), indicator organisms, coliforms, egg pool testing, proximate analysis, antibiotics, pesticides, and more.

Our microbiology and chemistry services for the produce industry include testing for soil amendments and water, pre-harvest tissue testing, and environmental monitoring for your post-harvest packing facility. We offer assays for a broad range of pathogens, spoilage organisms, indicator organisms, and contaminants, such as pesticide residues and heavy metals.

FSNS serves processors of RTE foods with accurate test results and competitive turnaround time to support your food safety programs. Services include microbiology (pathogens, indicators, spoilage organisms), analytical chemistry (nutritional analysis, allergens, contaminants), contract research projects, food safety audits, and more.

FSNS offers a broad range of assays for processors of refrigerated and frozen foods in support of your environmental monitoring program and food safety initiatives. Food testing services include microbiology (pathogens, spoilage organisms, indicator organisms), chemistry (nutritional analysis, allergens, contaminants), shelf-life testing, organoleptic analysis, and more.

Certified Laboratories, our fellow Certified Group company, is a leader in U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-related seafood analyses and is recognized by every FDA District in the country. Our team can handle any type of analysis required by the FDA on your merchandise, including filth testing, decomposition, and antibiotics. Our national sampling capabilities and our organoleptic testing and sensory analysis make us the most proficient laboratory for these services.