Seafood Safety Testing

Among all foods, seafood is the most nutritious food. Most seafood is delicious, nutritious, high in protein, low in fat, low in calories and easy to digest. It also contains a lot of amino acids, vitamins, iodine, calcium, zinc and other beneficial substances. So it is more and more popular with the public. As an important means to guarantee the safety of marine products, marine product safety testing is playing an increasingly important role. Our professional staffs have extensive experience in seafood product safety testing. Alfa Chemistry can provide you accurate analysis of seafood.

We can provide seafood safety testing services for:

• Freshwater fish

• Marine fish

• Sea sedge

• Shrimps and crabs

• Laver

• Kelp

• Shellfish

• Other aquatic products and processed products

Seafood inspection programs are mainly including:

• Species identification (DNA analysis)

• Marine biotoxins (ASP, DSP, PSP) and histamine detection

• Conventional and rapid detection pathogen tests (Vibrio, Listeria, Salmonella, Shigella, Staphylococcus, E. coli, Campylobacter, Cronobacter, Clostridium)

• Detection of veterinary drug residues MRL and MRPL (antibiotics, antiparasitic drugs, hormones)Contaminants (heavy metals, radionuclides, dioxins, plasticizers, mycotoxins, MOSH, MOAH, PAH, PFT, pesticides, allergens) detection

• Freshness and sensory qualities (color, texture, odor, flavor) analysis

• Food packaging tests (migration and residual levels of toxins)

• Shelf life and stability testing

• Fish meal testing

• Sampling and analysis of FDA-detained products

Equipment for the analysis of seafood at Alfa Chemistry :

• Gas chromatograph (GC)

• Liquid chromatograph (LC)

• Thin-layer chromatography (TLC)

• Ion chromatography (IC)

• Atomic fluorescence spectrometer (AFS)

• Atomic absorption spectrometer (AAS)

• Cycler Thermal Cycier

• Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS)

• Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)

• Other analysis instruments

Alfa Chemistry has professional staff and international leading equipment in seafood inspection. If you have any problems about seafood safety testing, please feel free to call us for help, Alfa Chemistry will be dedicated to serve you.