Food & Agricultural Products
We at Mettex provide a wide range of food testing services delivered through highly knowledgeable and experienced staff. We are equipped with state of the art facilities, helping you produce best in standard food products which are quality-assured.
We ensure that your food products do not contain contaminants and meet the industry standard.
We specialise in the area of Food testing of Raw, Cooked & Packed Food items and Water.
Test results as per FSSAI norms
Products tested are :
1. Dairy products & Analogues (Milk and Milk Products Testing)
● SKIMMED MILK POWDER BIS STANDARD
1. Fats, oils and fat emulsions (Oil, Fat and related Products Testing)
2. Fruits & Vegetables and its products
3. Food grains, Cereals, Pulses, Legumes, Millets and its products
4. Meat and Meat products
5. Egg and Egg Products Testing
6. Tea
7. Coffee
8. Fish and Fish products
9. Confectionary & Chocolates
10. Sugars & Jaggery
11. Honey
12. Edible Salts
13. Herbs, Spices, Seasonings & Condiments
14. Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES,
15. Bakery Products
16. Seaweeds
17. Nuts and Nuts Products Testing
18. Oilseeds
19. Cocoa & its products
20. Ready to eat savouries
21. Prepared foods
22. Cooked foods
23. Fortified Foods
24. Alcoholic Drinks and Beverages Analysis
key testing services :
1. nutritional labelling
2. shelf life study
3. quality parameters
4. Drugs, Antibiotics & Pesticide Residues
5. Peperines
6. Analysis of Micronutrients including
7. Testing of Sudan Dyes, Curcumins,
8. Vitamins & Minerals
9. Antibiotic and Pesticide Residuals Testing
10. Food Proximate Analysis
11. Microbiological Testing of Food Products
12. Residues & contaminants,
13. toxins and Crop Contaminants Testing,
14. Heavy Metal
15. Naturally occurring Toxic substances
16. Volatile Organic CompoundsBrix
Laboratory accreditation as per ISO 17025 from
● NABL
● FSSAI
● APEDA
● AGMARK
● BIS
● GAFTA
● EiC
Services Offered to Allied Industries
● Hotels & Restaurants
● Retail chains,
● shopping malls & food courts
● Corporate offices and industrial cafeterias
● Food & beverage retail franchises
● Food Importers I Exporters
Instruments/infrastructure
World-class instrument facilities like :
● Gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS MS),
● Liquid chromatography-mass spectroscopy (LCMS MS) is available for pesticide residue and antibiotic residue analysis in food and & agri products.
MAJOR ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTS
• LC-MSMS
• GC-MSMS with Head Space / Purge & Trap
• ICP – MS
• ICP – OES
• AAS
• ED XRF
• GC – ECD/FID/NPD
• Ion Chromatography
• HPLC with UV/PDA/FLD/RI Detectors
• UV- VIS Spectrophotometer
• FT- IR
• Microwave digester
2. Fats, oils and fat emulsions
Edible vegetable oil (coconut oil, sunflower oil, palm oil, sesame oil etc..) Multisource edible oil
Vanaspati Cocoa butter Peanut butter
Bakery shortenings Margarine
services list
● Refractive index
● BR reading
● Saponification value
● Iodine value
● Poleske value
● Unsaponifiable matter
● Acid value
● Cloud point
● Moisture & Volatile matter
● Insoluble impurities
● Lovibond color
● Specific gravity
● Bellier test
● Flash point (PMCC)
● Slip Melting point
● Peroxide value
● Free fattt acid
● Total Polar compounds
● Clarity test
● Polybromide test
● Test for argemone oil
● Test for castor oil
● Test for cottonseed oil
● Test for hydrocyanic acid
● Test for mineral oil
● Test for olive pomace oil
● Test for semi-siccative oil
● Test for teaseed oil
● Test for rancidity
● Test for added coloring matter
● Test for sesame seed oil
● Beta carotene
● Residual Hexane
● Phosphorus
● Oryzanol content
● Test for the presence of animal body fat
● Test for tricresyl orthophosphate
● Absorbancy in UV at 270 nm
● Delta K
● Allyl isothiocyanate
● Synthetic vitamin A
● Color produced by Baudouin test
● Fat
● Protein
● Salt (as NaCl)
● Total ash
BEVERAGES TESTING
● Nutrition Labeling
● Testing of Sudan Dyes
● Mycotoxins, Ochratoxin, Heavy metals and Toxic Elements Testing
● Antibiotic and Pesticide Residuals Testing
● Food Proximate Analysis
Microbiological Testing of Food Products