As Food Testing has been the main business of ILS for 30 years, there is hardly a food that we have not analysed. As such our chemistry laboratories are amongst the finest equipped, privately owned facilities in the country. Our continued investment in new technologies and equipment has led to our UKAS scope of accreditation and range of other tests available to be one of the most extensive in the UK.

Equipped with a range of instrumentation including, GC, GCMS, HPLC, Dionex, AA Spectroscopy, LECO, PCR and SFE Fat Analyser our testing range includes:

• Nutritional Testing, Group 1 & 2, including AOAC Dietary Fibre(UKAS Accredited)
• Meat Content
• Chemical Quality Determination
• GMO’s
• Vitamins
• Heavy metals

In addition to our Sample Collection service, this department also offers the service of cooking food samples before testing is carried out.

We also undertake Quality Control Testing on Beers, Wines and Spirits to IOB / EBC procedures, EEC Community Methods and other International Standards.