Food Safety Services

At SGS, we provide an end-to-end service, so whether it is advice during the development of a new product or support when a crisis arises, our services are tailored to your products and intended markets to provide you with the information you need.

We know that issues do not always occur between nine to five so we also offer an out of hours service to support you anytime.

• Ingredients review
• Regulatory advice
• Marketing compliance
• Crisis management support
• Horizon scanning of emergent legislation, regulation, trends and risks
• Benchmark management
• GFSI accreditation monitoring
• Complaints management and support – including technical complaints and local authority escalated complaints

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We offer a comprehensive range of nutrition and composition analysis services to support food manufacturers, suppliers and retailers with food labeling legislation and retailer specific compliance, due diligence and quality control, new product development and surveillance studies.

Our services include:

• Nutritional labeling testing
• Vitamins
• Minerals
• Preservatives
• Sweeteners

Our ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accredited testing laboratories are equipped with ‘state of the art’ instrumentation.

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Our Cambridge laboratory provides extensive pesticide screening with over 700 actives (currently the largest screen in the UK) and a range of target residue methods. Our methods are validated and accredited for a wide range of food types, including fresh produce, dried fruits, cereals, nuts and spices in accordance with the SANTE guidelines.

We can provide full consultancy pre- and post-analysis. Our standard reporting times is five working days with the capability to provide faster testing up to same day.

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By combining cutting edge DNA technologies with traditional testing methodologies, we help troubleshooting and investigate complex issues. From the determination of microbial contaminant isolated during testing, to full characterization of an organism using state of the art next generation sequencing (NGS) and whole genome sequencing, we can provide a solution.

We offer several UKAS accredited identification and speciation tests:

• Micro-identification: bacterial and fungal species (Sanger sequencing) allowing genus and species level determination of most microorganisms culturable in laboratory environment
• NGS meat and fish speciation: blind identification of any meat and/or fish present in a product

Other available sequencing platforms provide further insight into microbiological complex questions:

• Multi locus sequence typing:
  • Perfect tool for ‘strain’ identification of bacteria and dissection of relationships: tracking and tracing pathogens (environmental monitoring)
  • Salmonella serology determination
  • Generic platform – applicable to almost any bacterial, fungal organisms
• NGS: whole genome sequencing

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Our accredited service covers a wide range of mycotoxins as individual tests and screens. Testing covers a wide range of food and feed samples and complies to current regulations.

We test for:

• Aflatoxins (B1, B2, G1 and G2)
• Ochratoxin A
• Zearalenone (ZON)
• Fumonisins
• Trichothecenes (T-2 toxin, HT-2 toxin)
• Deoxynivalenol (DON)

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We provide the food industry with audit and certification solutions against a variety of standards and across different food segments and supply chains. These solutions include:

• BRCGS
• ISO 22000 Food Safety Management certification
• FSSC 22000 certification
• HACCP certification
• Good Hygienic Practices
• Customized Single Food Audit – audits against customer-specific criteria

Certification helps you and your suppliers adopt the highest standards in food safety, meet your regulatory requirements and contractual obligations and gain access to new markets.

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