Sneha Test House provides nutritional testing of foods and agricultural products to meet state, national and export requirements. Food Testing at Sneha Test Labs is certified and recognized by Food Safety & Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI). We are a trusted partner and an expert in physical, chemical, biological and radiological testing of a whopping 28 categories of food & agricultural products.
Below are a list of commodities tested at Sneha Test House:
- Cooked Food Products
- Raw Food Products
- Ready-to-Eat and Ready-to-Cook Products
- Ready-to-Drink Products
- Dairy and Dairy Products
- Nut and Nut Products
- Fruit and by-products
- Vegetable and by-products
- Canned and Retort Pouch Foods
- Oils, Seeds and By-products
- Honey and Honey Products
- Baby-food, Infant-Food, Formulas
- Alcohols and Spirits
- Agricultural Products
- Animal Food and Feeds
- Cereals and Pulses
- Fish, Sea-food / Marine Products
- Bakery and Confectionary Food
- Meat and Meat Products
- Alcoholic Beverages
- Non-alcoholic Beverages
- Coffee and cocoa Products
- Tea Products
- Gelatine Products
Food testing is essential to ensuring quality from farm to table, monitoring raw materials, intermediate products, and finished items, as well as adherence to established quality norms. In the modern world, consumers seek out high-quality products and carefully examine the nutritional information of the numerous food products available on the market to ensure that they don’t contain ingredients like Trans fats, added sugars, pollutants etc.
We at Sneha Test House can test nutritional / proximate parameters such as (but not limited to):
- Protein
- Energy
- Ash
- Moisture
- Carbohydrates
- Starch
- Dietary Fibre
- Total Fat
- Saturated Fat
- Trans Fat
- Poly-unsaturated Fat
- Mono-unsaturated Fat
- Water soluble Vitamins
- Fat soluble Vitamins
- Iron
- Potassium
- Cholesterol
- Sugar Profiling
- Etc.
Sneha Test Labs offers analytical testing capabilities in composition testing, quality & property testing, ingredients & adulteration, nutritional value & facts, and detection & quantification of hazardous chemicals in raw and processed food products are all part of our food analysis capabilities. Metal/elemental testing, mycotoxin testing, residue testing, and other agricultural tests are included.
Our trace analysis laboratory can detect (up to ppb levels) the following residues using standard and in-house validated methods:
- Pesticide & Insecticide Residues using GC with Headspace, GC MSMS, LC MSMS, and HPLC
- Fumigation Residues in Cereals and Spices (ETO & ECH residues, Methyl Bromide/Inorganic Bromide, Hydrogen Phosphide)
- Mycotoxins using LC MSMS & HPLC FLD
- Heavy Metals using ICPMSand AAS
- Methyl Mercury/ Organic Arsenic using ICP MS
- Naturally Occurring Toxins (NOTs)
- Residual Solvents in Vegetable Oils and Food Products
- Dioxins & Furans
- Banned Dyes/ Sudan Dyes in Spices
- Coal Tar Dyes in Food Products
- Malachite Green (MG), Leuco Malachite Green (LMG), Crystal Violet (CV), and Leuco Crystal Violet (LCV), etc.
- Melamine Presence in Food Products
- Non GMO testing
- Packaged Drinking Water testing as per IS 14543
- All Microbial Pathogens
Product quality is usefully described as a bundle of attributes that determine the product's performance. The major categories under quality attributes, tested at our lab are:
- Shelf Life Studies (Accelerated and Real-time)
- Clean Room Monitoring and Qualification
- Global Migration & Specific Migration studies for Packaging Materials
- Physio-Chemical Properties
- Allergens in Food Products
- Consultation and support in Spoilage investigations studies
- We assist our clients in identifying regulatory requirements and defining performance objectives, be it innovation in food tech or strengthening supply chains.
- We provide full variety of services from concept to consumer, including testing, new product development, research and development, third-party audits, training, scientific and regulatory advice and certification, and more.
- We test export consignments according to our customers’ specifications, ensuring compliance with regulatory norms
- Ensures food is free of physical, chemical, biological and radiological hazards.
- Ensures that products meet nutritional claims and labelling requirements.
- Provides information about structure, composition and physicochemical properties.
- Verifies claims made by manufacturer of the product on certain issues; for instance, the ingredients used.
- Ensures purity of food from adulteration which is prevalent in the food and agriculture industry.