Leatherhead Food Research provides both routine and specialist analyses to the food and drink industry. Whatever our customers' needs, we can meet their requirements and help them guarantee that their products achieve the highest standards through our broad range of analytical services.
We have a dedicated team of 35 analytical chemists and molecular biologists with technical expertise in the latest methods of analysis and associated technologies. This core team is supported by specialists providing expertise and technical advice relating to individual fields.
Leatherhead Food Research can help food and drinks companies respond to a wide range of testing requirements including:
Ensuring the quality of a food on a routine basis through microbiological, chemical, nutritional or sensory testing
Guaranteeing at the product concept stage that chosen ingredients will produce the desired results
Troubleshooting problems arising during production due to minor changes in ingredients or processing, or the appearance of a foreign body, taint or contaminant
Pre-empting problems with our Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) service
Leatherhead Food Research (Leatherhead) is an accredited testing laboratory under the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) scheme. UKAS is the sole national accreditation body recognised by government to assess, against internationally agreed standards, organisations that provide certification, testing, inspections and calibration services. Accreditation by UKAS demonstrates the competence, impartiality and performance capability of these evaluators. UKAS is a non-profit-distributing private company, limited by guarantee, and operates under a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government through the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
The certificate that Leatherhead head office holds (Number 1152) accredits us to the standards of ISO/IEC 17025:2005 - General Requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories. Leatherhead has been UKAS accredited since 16 Dec 1992 and undergoes an annual audit in accordance with the UKAS scheme. Our accreditation allows us to carry out various analytical methods as provided for in our approved schedule. Broadly speaking the schedule covers us for tests covering chemical and microbiological tests of dairy products, cereals, fruit and vegetables, grains and nuts (for full details of our approved range of tests see http://www.ukas.org).
Leatherhead continually strives to attain the highest possible standards of quality and service for our customers. To that effect we have a very active internal audit schedule that works in conjunction with our voluntary independent external quality schemes - Food Analysis Performance Assessment Scheme (FAPAS) which is run by the Central Science Laboratory for chemical analysis and LGC Standards Proficiency Testing for Microbiological analysis.
To learn more about our Analytical services please contact Anthony Bagshaw.
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Leatherhead Food Research provides both routine and specialist analyses to the food and drink industry. Whatever our customers' needs, we can meet their requirements and help them guarantee that their products achieve the highest standards through our broad range of analytical services.
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