Test Services Include
Isolation, enumeration, and identification of pathogenic, indicator and spoilage organisms; challenge and shelf life studies; sanitation audits; QA and HACCP consultation, and expert witness work are a few of our services in the realm of food microbiology.
We are equipped to test food and food-grade products as well as environmental surfaces and ambient air within food production facilities. Our specialties include microbial identification and confirmations, R and D analyses, consulting, method development and validations, toxins, challenge and shelf life studies, sanitation audits, QA and HACCP consultations. Overnight your food samples and isolates in our convenient sample cooler kit, for rapid overnight testing of pathogens such as Salmonella, Listeria, Ecolab O157:H7, Campylobacter, Shield and Staphylococcus aurous.
Food Pathogen Testing
Some of the species we routinely test: Bacillus cereus, Campylobacter, Clostridium outline, Clostridium porringers, Hemorrhagic and Enter pathogenic E. coli, Wisteria monocytogenes, Salmonella, Shigella, Staphylococcus, Vibro species, Yersinia enterocolitica
Quantitative Indicator and Spoilage Testing - * Aerobic and Anaerobic plate counts * Coliforms * E. coli * Enterococci * Yeast and Mold counts * Acidophiles * Psychrotrophs * Spore counts * Thermophiles
Microbial Characterization Technology Available - see Microbial Identification Methods * ELISA * DNA probes * 3M Petrifilm * Gas Chromatography Fatty Acid Analysis (GC-FAME) * BiologTM * RiboPrinterTM (QualiconTM) * MicroSeqTM 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing - 500 or 1540 base pair (PE Applied Biosystems) * qPCR
Other Related Test Services
The Mil also conducts other food related analyses such as
Detection of Microbial Toxins (Aflatoxin, Botulinum toxin, Staphylococcus Enterotoxin, Vomitoxin, and other mycotoxins)
Metabolites (such as histamine), antibiotics, inhibitory substances, food nutritional and vitamin chemistry, Meat Speciation (up to eleven species of meat differentiation), Commercial sterility, edible oil fatty acid profiles, carbohydrates, fats, fiber, ash, moisture, acridine orange direct counts, dark field /bright field/ epi-fluorescence photomicroscopy.
More services
- Food Quality Testing
- Meat Adulteration ELISA Testing
- HAACP Consultation Services
