SGS food & feed facility gets SANAS accreditation

SGS’s Agri Food Laboratory in Cape Town, South Africa has achieved its accreditation from SANAS (South African National Accreditation System) and in accordance with ISO/IEC 17025:2005. SANAS is South Africa’s national accreditation body. For the food and feed laboratory which opened only 11 months earlier, the recognition signifies the competence of the facility and employees to undertake tasks in terms of the Accreditation for Conformity Assessment, Calibration and Good Laboratory Practice Act (Act 19 of 2006).

The state-of-the-art laboratory offers the following agricultural food testing services:

- Protein in foods and feeds – method: WI-AN-001 based on AOAC 2001.11 Kjeltec 

- Free fatty acids in foods, feeds and oils – method: WI-AN-002 based on AOCS Ca 5a-40

- Salt (Sodium Chloride) in foods and feeds – method: WI-AN-003 based on AOAC 937.09

The SGS laboratory is capable of delivering industry-leading technologies and QC procedures. In-house analytical capabilities include:

- Nutritional analysis (foodstuffs, feeds, vegetable oils)

- Microbiological testing

- Metals & Minerals in foods and feeds

- Fish (raw, fresh, frozen)

- Spices

- Oils (vegetable, fish)

- Honey

- Juices

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