Are you still picking so-called 'representative' colonies and identifying a small fraction of the organisms appearing on your plates, one-at-a-time, all the time wondering if you're picking the 'right' colonies to understand what's happening? Send your plates to us - we can identify ALL of the bacterial, and yeast and mould colonies appearing on an agar plate or petrilm ALL at the same time. With guaranteed standard 5 day TAT, or in as little as 24 - 48 hours for time critical samples, we can help you get to the bottom of your investigations sooner and better!

Are you waiting, waiting, waiting for spoiled products or bad ferments to be cultured so that you can diagnose the cause of the problems and figure out if there are any safety concerns, while you lose sleep wondering if you will need to dump, withdraw or recall a product. If it's taking too long for you to get your results, costing serious $$$ while your product remains on hold or you out-of-stock, get in touch with us. You can send us your samples or factory swabs and we'll identify everything that's there, without needing to culture. And we'll help you understand what the results mean for your product or process.

If you're worried that your current testing lab might be under-or-over-reporting HRM we can help. Our team have been testing for HRM

in all sorts of raw materials and finished goods for more than 20 years!  we've got all the skills and equipment to test for HRM and to confirm and correctly identify any presumptive HRM

we recover from your raw materials or finished goods. 

Or ask your current testing lab to forward any presumptive HRM to us for confirmation and identification - we know that it's a special skill we have! 

Do you need to validate a new process or product? We can offer industry standard and bespoke shelf-life testing, challenge testing and surrogate validation for cold, warm and hot fill beverages and sauces, preserved ready-to-eat foods including plant-based foods, thermal processing of nuts and desserts and more. We also offer validation of factory sanitisers and disinfectants. We hold a comprehensive collection of challenge test surrogates and spoilage organisms and hold a collective experience of > 75 years to help you validate your process or product.