Food Laboratory

 

General Food Analyses 

Protein, Total Fat, Saturated/Unsaturated Fat, Trans Fat, Total Carbohydrate, Total Sugars, Dietary Fibre, Cholesterol, Minerals, Calories, Vitamins, Acidity, Alcohol Content, Ash, Benzoic Acid, Caffeine, Total Sugars (as Invert), Reducing Sugars, Sugar Profiling, Salt (sodium chloride), Cyanide (total and free), Fat, Free Fatty Acids, Fatty Acid Profiling, Crude Fibre, Dietary Fibre, Iodine Value, Minerals (calcium, iron, potassium), Peroxide Value, Saponification Value, Sorbic Acid, Sulphide and Sulphur Dioxide. 

 Fats and Oils

Total Free Fatty Acids, Fatty Acid Profiling, Iodine Value,  Saponification Value and Peroxide Value.

 Nutritional Analysis

Protein, Total Fat, Saturated/Unsaturated Fat, Trans Fat, Total  Carbohydrate, Total Sugars, Dietary Fibre, Cholesterol, Minerals, Calories and Vitamins.

 Nutritional Labelling

FDA Nutrition Label (includes label as per FDA guidelines and  non-rounded laboratory results).

 Contaminants/Preservatives

 

Heavy Metals, Cyanide (total and free), Pesticide Residues,   Benzoic Acid, Sorbic Acid and Sulphur Dioxide.

 

Accreditation

The management system of CARIRI has been assessed and certified by SGS as meeting the requirements of ISO 9001:2008 for the following activities:Consulting, industrial research and testing and equipment design and development. CARIRI has been certified by SGS to the ISO 9001 standard since January 1999.

The laboratories of CARIRI have demonstrated compliance with the ANSI/ISO/IEC 17025:2005 standard, General criteria for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories, and have been accredited by the International 

Accreditation Service Inc. for the test methods listed in the scope of accreditation at IASonline.org.

CARIRI's laboratories have had a history of international accreditation since 1997.