Food testing will allow Aerobiology to meet the requests of food manufacturerÍs, food distributors and individuals who require answers to food related questions. This analysis also allows us to service the pharmaceutical, academic and environmental quality industries in the following major areas:

• Quality control testing
• Pathogenic isolation, enumeration and identification
• Indicator and spoilage organisms
• Shelf life studies
• Product validation and challenge studies
• Sanitation and environmental audits

Testing Protocol:  Each and every food can have its own unique conditions that will encourage or inhibit certain types of microbial growth. The years of experience provided by AerobiologyÍs microbiologists can target those organisms most likely to contaminate your particular food item or infect a large scale production issue.

Toxins, metabolites and other services
Aflatoxin	Botulinum toxin	Meat adulteration
Staph. aureus enterotoxins	Ochratoxin	GMO testing
Bacillus enterotoxin	Zearalenone	Gluten testing
Vomitoxin	Fumonisin	Histamine (scombroid poisoning)
Various mycotoxins		Almond, egg, milk and peanut allergens

Testing Standards:  Aerobiology Laboratory Associates utilizes all of the established and recognized reference manuals and methods to satisfy the needs of its clients:

USDA, BAM, AOAC, USP, APHA, ASTM

Customized Microbial Studies will be designed in corroboration with your company to suit your particular food testing requirements.

Testing Types:  Examples of large scale contamination control testing possible with Aerobiology Laboratory Associates, Inc.:

• Creating an effective quality control testing programs for one of the nationÍs largest fast food restaurant chains, this effort has substantially reduced problem contamination issues for this company and continues to monitor and test each restaurant on a quarterly basis.
• Modernizing and updating a food pathogen detection program for leading food packaging manufacturers. Helping them meet their microbial quality control objectives at a significantly reduced cost.
• Innovative tracking studies to identify contamination bacteria in sabotaged food items that resulted in product recalls and though DNA identification, track the source of the contamination to the guilty parties.