Food and drink testing

Food Authenticity Testing

Food fraud costs businesses and risks consumer safety. We help you verify what's in each of your products, where ingredients and products come from (geographical origin) and whether this matches the label claim.

Food Clinic

Whether you're investigating a contamination event, an unexpected test result, a quality issue or an unknown substance in your product, we provide rapid expert assessment and testing to help you understand what's happening and what to do next.

Food Contact Materials

Packaging must meet stringent safety standards while aligning with sustainability goals and evolving legislation. We support retailers and manufacturers with testing and consultancy services covering food contact materials, migration testing to ensure the regulatory compliance of your packaging.

Novel Foods & Alternative Proteins

As the alternative protein industry grows, so does the complexity of ensuring these products are safe, compliant and ready for market. We're here to help you navigate it - from novel food authorisation to supply chain risk and emerging contaminant detection.

PFAS testing for food, feed and environmental matrices

PFAS are persistent, widespread and increasingly regulated. As the UK's National Reference Laboratory for halogenated POPs, we have the validated methods and expertise to help you understand your exposure, meet emerging limits and protect your supply chain.

Water Quality

Clean water is critical to the whole system everything - public health, food production, biodiversity and the health of natural capital. We help laboratories, businesses, landowners and regulators understand what's in their water, where that's a problem or pollutant and what to do about it.