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Agricultural Testing Solutions

Agriculture Testing Services

Symbio Laboratories provides a range of agriculture testing services across various applications within the agricultural industries. The services offered include comprehensive testing for cattle, stock feed, grain, and seafood.

Our state-of-the-art analytical laboratories provide agriculture testing for residue, and chemical, microbiological, nutritional and environmental analyses to ensure your products are fit for market, complying with safety and regulatory frameworks.

We offer a wide range of testing services for Agribusinesses and have consolidated our capabilities into the industries we cater to the most.

Aquaculture

Symbio Laboratories has built a strong reputation as an independent provider of analytical test services to seafood producers and processors. We can meet all your seafood testing needs for residue, chemical, microbiological, nutritional and environmental analyses.

For fast, reliable results in seafood testing, let Symbio Laboratories assist you with any aspect of your quality assurance program and product specifications. We conduct over 2,000 different tests through our laboratory and we make the following capabilities available to you:

Microbiology Testing

Total viable counts (SPC)

Coliforms, E. coli

Salmonella

Listeria species and/or L. monocytogenes

Staphylococci

White Spot & Yellow-head Virus

Chemistry Testing

Pesticides

Antibiotics and Antimicrobials

Heavy Metals

Histamine

Sulphur Dioxide

Residue Testing

Nutritional profiles (e.g. protein, fat, fibre, fatty acid profile, vitamins, metals and other elements)

DAIRY

For three decades, our success can be attributed mainly to our constant quest for innovation in testing solutions that deliver ever more accurate results operationally efficiently. We do this because we believe this will ultimately reduce the overall cost of testing. In fact, Symbio has invested in the latest testing instruments and installed them in all of our testing laboratories. We did this to ensure consistent methods among the results across Australia.

At the centre of the technology are infrared technologies including the Near Infra Red (NIR) and the Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) analysis, which allows for rapid and accurate assessment of milk products.

Microbiology Testing

Listeria

Bacterial Count

Freezing Point

Somatic Cell Count

Fats

Lactose protein

Residue Testing

Pesticides

Residues and contaminants

Elements

Hydrocarbons

Industrial Chemicals

GRAIN

We are Australia’s leading analysis laboratories when it comes to quality assurance and product specification. We verify these things by analysing and confirming the nutritional composition of the grain, and—concurrently—affirming the absence of residues and mycotoxins.

We do this because we believe consumable items including grains should be safe for human consumption. We apply these same standards to stockfeed.

Microbiology Testing

Bacterial

Mould

Yeast isolates

Chemistry Testing

Pesticides

Antibiotics and Antimicrobials

Heavy Metals

Histamine

Sulphur Dioxide

Residue Testing

Nutritional profiles (e.g. protein, fat, fibre, fatty acid profile, vitamins, metals and other elements)

LIVESTOCK

At Symbio Labs, we know that the quality of any meat product is determined by the quality of the food used to feed livestock. However, the conventional methods of estimating the diet quality of grazing cattle are costly, time-consuming and generally unreliable.

In an effort to offer affordable, rapid and accurate food quality analysis, we are now using state-of-the-art technologies, which survey cattle feacal matter using Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy (NIRS) to measure the quality of the animal’s diet.

PRODUCE

Symbio Laboratories has built a strong reputation as an independent provider of fruit, vegetable and nut testing to producers and processors, and meet all the testing needs for residue, chemical, microbiological, nutritional and environmental analyses.

We can complete all testing required for the Freshcare program and major supermarkets’ quality assurance program requirements.

Microbiology Testing

Total viable counts

Coliforms

Faecal coliforms

E. coli

Salmonella

Listeria species and/or L.

monocytogenes

Staphylococci

Residue Testing

Insecticides

Acaricides

Fungicides

Herbicides

Carbamates

Dithiocarbamates

Fruit dip wash

Aflatoxins

Heavy metals

Nitrates

Chemistry Testing

Quality parameters (e.g. peroxide value, acid value, free fatty acids)

Nutritional profiles (e.g. protein, fat, fibre, fatty acid profile, vitamins, elements)

STOCKFEED

Symbio Laboratories has built a strong reputation as an independent provider of fruit, vegetable and nut testing to producers and processors, and meet all the testing needs for residue, chemical, microbiological, nutritional and environmental analyses.

We can complete all of the testing required for the Freshcare program and in major supermarkets’ quality assurance program requirements.

Microbiology Testing

Total viable counts

Coliforms

Faecal coliforms,

E. coli

Salmonella

Listeria species and/or L. monocytogenes

Staphylococci

Residue Testing

Insecticides

Acaricides

Fungicides

Herbicides

Carbamates

Dithiocarbamates

Fruit dip wash

Aflatoxins

Heavy metals

Nitrates

Chemistry Testing

Quality parameters (e.g. peroxide value, acid value, free fatty acids)

Nutritional profiles (e.g. protein, fat, fibre, fatty acid profile, vitamins, elements)

OTHER INDUSTRIES WE SERVE

Because food, water and consumable safety is at the heart of what we do, Symbio Labs has clients from across the industrial spectrum including restaurants, big Pharma and others.

Pharmaceutical & Personal Care

At Symbio, we have been providing quality and safety testing services for health and pharmaceutical goods to our customers for ...

Environmental

Symbio Laboratories offers one of the most extensive ranges of capabilities for environmental testing on the market. This makes us ...

Food, Beverage & Dairy

We recognise that individual organisations need reliable, cost-effective analytical services to support their food safety and quality programs. Symbio Laboratories ...