Herbs & Spices

Comprehensive testing, inspection, certification, and training solutions to improve accountability and efficiency in herb and spice supply chains.

Home cooks and professionals are always looking for new herbs and spices to improve the flavors of their dishes. At the same time, consumer and regulatory requirements are becoming stricter in terms of purity, quality, safety, authenticity, and traceability.

Deliver high quality herbs and spices to global markets

We offer comprehensive testing, inspection, audit, and certification solutions to help you deliver safe, compliant and authentic herbs and spices to your customers.

Our inspection and field services cover:

• Crop monitoring
• Fumigation
• Pre-production and production hygiene inspections
• Final random pre-shipment inspections
• Container inspections
• Temperature monitoring
• Loading supervision

Utilizing our global network of state-of-the-art testing facilities, we can analyze your herbs and spices against a wide variety of criteria, including:

• Microbiology: Traditional and rapid testing for indicator organisms & pathogens
• Filth & Extraneous matter
• Chemical Analysis
• Allergens
• Biotoxins: pyrrolizidine & tropane alkaloids (PAs and TAs)
• Colorants
• Dioxins & polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
• Food fraud and authenticity (Microscopy, IRMS, chemical analysis, DNA testing)
• Genetically modified organisms (GMO)
• Heat/capsaicinoids
• Heavy metals
• Mineral oils
• Moisture & water activity
• Mycotoxins
• Nutritional & proximate analysis
• Packaging migration
• Piperine
• Pesticide residues
• Process contaminants (e.g., acrylamide, 3-MCPD, PAHs)
• Solvent residues
• Vitamins & nutrients
• Volatile oil

Audits, certification and training

We support you with a broad range of auditing, certification, and training solutions to help you meet industry, national and international regulations. We audit to GFSI-benchmarked standards and can combine parallel requirements in multiple standards to create a single auditing solution that reduces costs and operational disruptions.

Why choose SGS?

SGS is recognized as the benchmark of quality and integrity. Wherever you operate in the world, our tailored solutions will support you in meeting recognized food safety requirements, such as the US Food safety Modernization Act (FSMA), as well as social responsibility audits for your supply chain. In addition, stay current with the latest regulatory changes with our powerful intelligence platform – SGS Digicomply.