INTERFIELD LABORATORIES

Quality Testing Facility: we stand for quality

Through our commitment to quality, we aim to exceed your expectations

OUR CREDENTIALS

Interfield Laboratories is a testing laboratory catering to the testing needs of food, fruits &

vegetables (including grapes), aquatic products, herbal products, honey, edible oils,

packaged drinking water, spices and pharmaceutical industries. The laboratory, set up as

a partnership firm, has been in operation for over 20 years and has acquired the following

national and international accreditations/approvals for chemical and biological testing:

• ISO/IEC 17025:2005, an international accreditation by NABL, DST, Govt. of India

• Export Inspection Council of India

• Pollution Control Board

• Drugs Controller of India

• Agricultural & Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA)

• Food Safety & Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)

• AGMARK approval for Grading & Marking of fruits and vegetables for export

• Tea Board of India

• Sri Lanka Tea Board

OUR MISSION

� improve our range of tests

� thrust for method development and validation

� improve our performance conforming to the regulatory requirements of EU, USA, Australia and Japan

� superior quality services at competitive price

� maintain quality and practice ethics & transparency in our business operations

� deliver reliable and quick results

• Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)

OUR FACILITIES

� Chemical Laboratory

� Microbiology Laboratory

� Molecular Biology Laboratory

� Drugs & Cosmetics Testing Laboratory

A Centre of Excellence in Chemical and Microbiological Analysis:

Chemical & Biochemical Analysis:

We perform highly sophisticated residue-level testing of antibiotics/pesticides/

mycotoxins/heavy metals/illegal dyes, in addition to quality parameters like

histamine & other general chemical analysis using a wide spectrum of advanced

new generation techniques and instrumentations.

Microbiological Analysis:

We offer full range microbiological testing & quality assurance of products

employing standard methodologies powered by high end instrumentation.

Molecular techniques are adopted for GMO testing, Shrimp virus detection &

testing of bacterial pathogens

INSTRUMENTATION:

We possess analytical instruments namely-

� HPLC-MS/MS

� GC-MS/MS

� GC-ECD/FID/MS

� ICP-MS

� HPLC

� FT-IR Spectrometer

� Ion Chromatography

� AAS

� UV-VIS Spectrophotometer

� PCR machines (RT -PCR & End point PCR)

� VIDAS (for pathogen detection)

Some of the product categories in our scheme of testing includes: -

Fruits and vegetables, Fish & Fishery Products, Milk and milk products, Egg and egg

Raw materials used in food industry, Spices, Tea, Water (as per regulatory

QUALITY ASSURANCE OF TESTING We strive to maintain excellent quality of testing by participating in International proficiency test (PT) programs, participating in various inter-laboratory quality checks & conducting internal quality checks.

OUR CUSTOMER LIST

Includes Government regulatory agencies, food, herbal and pharmaceutical industries who are involved in the production and/or export of nutraceuticals, herbal medicines, aquatic products, frozen foods, packaged drinking water, spices, tea, bakery & confectionaries, and fruits & vegetables

OUR TEAM

• Samplers: We have well-trained samplers recognized by regulatory authorities for sampling.

• Chemists/Biologists: We select our right choice of talent by written examination followed by an interview.

• Senior scientists: Our team include expert Scientists, who possess good

command in their respective field of science.

• Management: At every level, IFL management maintains transparency & highest

ethical standards in our business operations, to create an environment conducive

for continuous improvement, believing in mutual trust and teamwork.

products, Groundnut, Cereals & Pulses, Herbal/ayurvedicproducts, Drugs & Cosmetics,

requirements of BIS / EU), GMO.

Chemical analysis:• Cereals Pulses & Cereal Products• Edible Oils & Fats• Fish & Sea Foods• Herbs Spices & Condiments• Milk & Dairy Products• Tea• Coffee & Cocoa Products• Eggs & Egg Products• Fruit & Fruit Products• Honey & Honey Products• Nuts & Nut Products• Vegetables & Vegetable Products• Others: Food & Agricultural Products,

Packaging & Containers, Water Testing

• Milk&DairyProducts• HerbsSpices&Condiments• Others:FoodandAgriculturalProducts,

Water Testing

We provide Water Quality Testing in accordance with regulatory requirements of BIS/EU• IS 14543 : 2016 (packaged drinking water)• IS 13428 : 2005 (natural mineral water)• IS 10500 : 2012 (drinking water)• EC 98/83 (water for human consumption)

We perform chemical and

following categories as per

NABL: Scope of Testing.

Recently FSSAI has started regulating indigenously manufactured and imported food & food products for the screening of food additives, contaminants, naturally occurring toxic substances, heavy metals, pesticides, veterinary drug residues, antibiotic residues and microbial contaminats to ensure availability of safe food for human consumption.

Biological Analysis:• Fish&SeaFoods

under FSSAI Guidelines

microbiological testing of Food and Food Products of the

FSSAI guidelines and under

Interfield Laboratories is one of the FSSAI recognized laboratory with Certified Food Analysts.

Quality Assurance of Food & Food Products

Quality Assurance of Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

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Interfield Laboratories has been providing analytical services to the food, drinking water, and other

approved by Drugs Controller, Kerala. Our state-of-the-art quality testing at Kochi encompasses the complete spectrum of analytical needs for drugs and pharmaceutical testing, involving instrumental analysis (FTIR, HPLC, UV-spectrophotometer, AAS), wet chemical analysis and microbiological analysis. We strive to excel continually by upgrading our infrastructure facilities and professional capabilities to serve the customer better.

We perform raw material and finalproduct testing in accordance to the standard methodologies of IP, USP-NF, BP

Microbiological

Dedicated clean-room facility with AHU

Our technical team has experience in analytical chemistry and can provide method development and validation for pharmaceutical testing. Methods are validated to current guidelines.

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• E.coli

• Salmonella spp.

• Staphylococcus aureus

• Pseudomonas aeruginosa

• Shigella spp.

• Clostridia sp.

• Candida albicans

• Bacterial Endotoxin

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environment segments for over 20 years and are accredited as per ISO/IEC 17025: 2005. We are

Quality Assurance of TeaTheTeaBoardofIndiaunderMinistryofCommerce&Industry,GovernmentofIndia,hastakenfirmsteps to protect and enhance the image of Indian tea globally, and to ensure that only tea worthy of the tagline “Indian Tea” is exported. This comes on the backdrop of various quality issues that have

would be subjected to random testing at different levels. The Tea Board of India has set up systematic procedures under its direction to put in place an online mandatory mechanism to track all tea exports and imports in order to ensure strict compliance of quality norms as per the prescribed national and international standards.

Our range of testing of tea covers: Chemical test Microbiological test • Mycotoxins • Total Plate Count • Artificialcolour • Escherichia coli • Ash • Staphylococcus aureus • Heavy Metals • Salmonella

• Caffeine • Clostridium perfringens • Tannin • Listeria monocytogenes

• Physical parameters like moisture, • Coliform extraneous matter • Streptococcus faecalis

• Iron filings • Shigella • Pesticide residues • Spore count

• Alkalinity as KO • Crude Fibre

• Acid insoluble ash • Yeast & Mould

We are approved by Tea Board of India and Sri Lanka Tea Board. Our Quality Testing facility

encompasses complete spectrum of Microbiological and Chemical analytical needs.

cropped up in recent years. The law effective from 1st February, 2013 states that no tea can either be exported from or imported into India without conforming to FSSAI parameters and tea

Quality Assurance of Edible Fats and Oils

Adulterated oils pose to be health hazards as they may be toxic and they could deprive nutrients essential for proper growth and development. When consumed, adulterants like argemone oil produce a condition similar to epidemic dropsy. Interfield Laboratories is one of the recognized and NABL accredited laboratories, testing all kinds of edible fats and oils.

Chemical analysis: • Iodine value • Saponificationvalue • Acid value • Peroxide value (rancidity) • Detection of trans fatty acids (by FTIR) • Detection of adulterants like argenone oil • Determination of cholesterol content

This enables us to test the levels and composition of fatty acids including saturated, monounsaturated (MUFA) and polyunsaturated fatty acids (FUFA) in oils.

Oil adulteration with less expensive and often toxic oils is a major issue for the edible oil industry.

NABL: Scope of testingWe perform testing of edibile fats & oil under

according to customer specific requirements

Also,weprovideanalyticalfacilitiesforfattyacidprofilingofcommercialedibleoilswithGCandFTIR.

We perform microbiological testing

Quality Assurance of Fruits & Vegetables under APEDA Guidelines

Interfield Laboratories has been providing analytical services to the food, fruits & vegetables, drinking

the complete spectrum of analytical needs for fruits & vegetable testing, involving instrumental analysis

infrastructure facilities and professional capabilities to serve the customer better.

1. Organochlorine 2. Organophosphorus3. Synthetic pyrethroids 4. Triazines5. Acylamino acid fungicides 6. Carbamates7. Pyrimidines 8. Triazoles9. Imidazole 10. Oxazole11. Phthalimide 12. Benzimidazole13. Dithiocarbamates 14. Nicotinoids15. Dinitrophenol 16. Aliphatic nitrogen fungicide17. Morpholine 18. Substituted thiourea19. Benzoylphenyl urea 20. Strobilurin21. Phenyl pyrazole 22. Pyrazole23. Nitrophenyl ether 24. Dinitroaniline25. Anilide/acetanilide & chloroacetanilide26. Miscellaneous group of chemicals

27. Inorganics (cadmium, copper compounds, lead, sulphur)

We perform highly sophisticated residue-level testing of the following groups of agrochemicals covering 177 compounds in fruits and vegetables under APEDA guidelines and NABL: Scope of Testing:

APEDA guidelines and NABL: Scope of Testing. We strive to excel continually by upgrading our

GMO Testing by PCR:

We offer services for grading and marking of

We perform Molecular analysis of products namely Cereals/Pulses/Cotton/Fruits & Vegetables

fruits and vegetables for export (AGMARK)

17025: 2005. We are approved by APEDA. Our state-of-the-art quality testing at Kochi encompasses water, and other environment segments for over 20 years and are accredited as per ISO/IEC

(GC-MS/MS, GC-ECD/FID/MS, LC-MS/MS, HPLC, ICP-MS, AAS, UV-spectrophotometer, etc.) under

for the detection of GMO

Quality Assurance of Spices and Condiments

Interfield Laboratories has been providing analytical services to the spices, food & food products,

accredited as per ISO/IEC 17025: 2005. Our state-of-the-art quality testing at Kochi encompasses the complete spectrum of analytical needs for spices testing, involving instrumental analysis (GC-MS/MS, GC-ECD/FID/MS, LC-MS/MS, HPLC, ICP-MS, AAS, UV-spectrophotometer, etc.) under NABL: Scope of Testing. We strive to excel continually by upgrading our infrastructure facilities and professional capabilities to serve the customer better.

Our range of testing of spices and condiments covers:

• Mycotoxin(AflatoxinsB1,B2,G1,G2;Ochra-toxin A)

• Illegal dyes(Sudan-I,-II,-III,-IV;RhodamineB, Sudan Red 7B, Sudan, Orange G, Butter Yellow, Para Red)

• Metals (cadmium, mercury, chromium, arsenic, lead, copper, chromium, zinc, tin, iron)

• Vitamins (vitamin D, thiamine, riboflavin,niacin, folic acid)

• Fibre(crudefibre,dietaryfibre)

water soluble ash)

extract, alcohol soluble extract, cold water soluble extract)

• Physical parameters like moisture, extraneous matter, insect damaged matter, light berries

• Pesticide residues• Starch content• Sulphur di-oxide

• Calcium as CaO• Volatile oil

coli, S. aureus, Salmonella, Yeast and Mould,

Wealsoofferspecifictestsforspecificspiceslike

capsaicin in chillypiperine in pepper

curcumin in turmericlead chromate test in turmeric

• Ash content (toal ash, acid insoluble ash,

• Extract (Non-volatile methylene chloride/ether

C.perfringens,Listeria,Coliforms,S.faecalis,

GMO testing by PCR

• Microbiological Test : Total plate count, E.

Spore count,Bacillus

fruits & vegetables, drinking water, and other environment segments for over 20 years and are

Quality Assurance of Seafood under EIC guidelines

Interfield Laboratories has been providing analytical services to the food, drinking water, and other

approved by Export Inspection Council of India, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India. Our state-of-the-art quality testing at Kochi encompasses the complete spectrum of analytical needs for seafood testing, involving instrumental analysis (GC-MS/MS, GC-ECD/FID/MS, LC-MS/MS, HPLC, ICP-MS, AAS, UV-spectrophotometer, etc.), wet chemical analysis and microbiological analysis under NABL: Scope of Testing. We strive to excel continually by upgrading our infrastructure facilities and professional capabilities to serve the customer better.

Our range of testing of seafood covers:

Chemical test Microbiological test

• Antibiotics • TotalPlateCount• Pesticides • Escherichia coli • Artificialcolour • Staphylococcus aureus• HeavyMetals • Salmonella• Formaldehyde • Yeast&Mould• Histamine • Vibrio cholera• Indole • Vibrio parahaemolyticus• TVBN • Vibrio vulnificus• TMA • Listeria monocy togenes• PCBs • Bacillus cereus• SaltasNaCl • Shigella• Totalash • Coliform• Dietaryfibre • Faecalstreptococci• Fat(free&total) • Enterobacteriaceae

• Residualsulphite• Moisture

• Added phosphate Molecular analysis

Screening of bacterial pathogens namely:Salmonella,Shigella,Vibrio cholerae,Vibrio parahaemolyticus,Listeria monocytogens

AHPND

• Protein

Screening of shrimp viruses namely:WSSV,IHHNV,YHV/GAV,TSV,IMNVPvNV

environment segments for over 20 years and are accredited as per ISO/IEC 17025: 2005. We are

• Total phosphate

CUSTOMER SUPPORT & SERVICES We strive to provide ethical & professional customer support. For enquires and analytical services please contact us at: Ms.Sunanda Padiyath Quality Manager qm@ifl.in �+91 9495425781 Ms.Anu Antony

qa@ifl.in

Mr. Mathew George Business Development Manager cro@ifl.in �+91 9388605447 Mr.Praveen Peter

For Customer concerns & feedback reach us at:

jp@ifl.in �+91 9846055665

Website: www.ifl.in

INTERFIELD LABORATORIES

XIII/1208, Interprint House

Kochi-682005, Kerala,India.

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�+91 9497713511

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