Our inspection services can help you to minimise the risk of importing merchandise that is deficient in quantity, or deviates from specifications in a customer order. We serve as your eyes and ears at your supplier's end and ensure that the merchandise shipped meets your specifications.

Our inspection service scope

  • Pre-shipment inspection
  • Loading supervision
  • Tailor-made inspection services

Products we cover

Commodities, including various varieties of white and brown basmati rice, non-basmati rice, wheat, sugar, mustard, maize, barley, tea, spices, amaranth, flaxseed, and pulses.

Food and related products, including soya, casein powder, grapes, potatoes, mushrooms, ginger, gherkins, and fruit concentrates such as mango pulp.

Feedstuffs, including organic colza cake, sesame cake, soya meal, maize, and castor seed cake.

Customer-oriented solutions

  • Procurement inspection to ascertain the quality at site and analysis at laboratory for quality evaluation
  • Visual inspection of the condition of cargo, packing and marking
  • Quantity and weight verification
  • Incremental sampling as per client specified method or in tune with importing country specifications if the cargo is for export
  • Securing the cargo after sampling
  • Analytical services with facilities to test all the key areas of food safety and composition testing
  • Identification of approved lots, dispatch supervision and container sealing
  • Electronic reporting with supportive documents

Why work with us?

  • Competence centres equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation, including high-resolution gas chromatography (HRGC), high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), gas chromatography -  tandem mass spectrometry (GC-MS/MS)
  • Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), high-resolution mass spectrometry (HR-MS), gas chromatography - mass spectrometry (GC-MS), liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) systems
  • Fast turn-around time 
  • Local contact with a global network
  • Participation in industry associations and regulatory bodies, enabling early awareness and response to potential food safety concerns and changes in legal requirements
  • Expert advice testing schemes, on-site check for hygiene and allergens, labelling advice and traceability
  • Results you can rely on
  • International presence­

Get in touch

Would you like to find out more about our testing solutions, or do you need tailored analytical support? Contact us today to get in touch with our experts.

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