Range of tests

The agri-food sector has changed suddenly and deeply during the years, in response to the shift in consumer needs. The consumer himself has, with time, begun to get closer to food, driven by new motivating forces like curiosity, the bigger need of information about nutrition and the less time available for meal preparation.

The company investments have allowed during the years to extend researches to a wide range of residues, having at disposal always more reliable and automated techniques, which are able to ensure certainty of data.

Currently Leochimica offers to its customers the following determinations, which include analyses on food intended for human and animal consumption, quality control of product and production process, residue detection and determination of nutritional values:

• Standard chemical and microbiological analyses
• Proximate analysis and nutritional classification
• Analysis of pesticides’ residues
• Vitamin analysis
• Analysis of environmental micropollutants
• Metal analysis
• GC MS analysis
• HPLC MS analysis
• Mycotoxin analysis
• Quantitative (Real Time) and qualitative (End Point) P.C.R. analyses for determination of GMOs
• Real Time P.C.R. analysis for the determination of Listeria and Salmonella
• Medicated substance detection
• Shelf life test
• Sensory analyses such as Panel Tests and Consumer Tests
• Fertilizer analyses ( manures, compost, soil amendments)
• Analyses of wines, musts and liquors
• Soil test
• Foliar analysis
• Quantitative vitamin analysis
• Filth-test
• Analysis for detection of pesticides
• Definition of index and contamination indicator parameters
• Determination of amino acid compositions, fatty acid and cholesterol level, soluble and insoluble fiber
• Overall and specific migration tests on food containers and control of composition and purity requirements of paper and paperboards meant for the direct contact with foodstuff.
• Detection of allergens
• Detection of pathogenic agents in foodstuff, raw materials and semi-manufactured products
• Research of metals
• Detection of pathogenic agents by using Sinal accredited methods and of salmonella and listeria by real time PCR
• Multiresidue analysis for the detection of pharmaceuticals in honey
• Organoleptic test
• Study of bacteria involved in organoleptic defects
• Environmental swabs
• Detection of contaminants and additives such as toxins, antibiotics, PCBs, PAHs, hormones, preservative and antioxidant agents