Labtek Services Ltd

Labtek Services Ltd established in 1987 this year celebrates 30years supplying the Laboratory & Quality control environments. We work with suppliers from around the world to provide our clients with the highest quality of product at the most competitive price.Specialists in the Food & Beverage & Dairy Industries our client base ranges from the small independant processor to the Multi-National organisations. LABTEK Services is ISO9001:2015

How Does Microbial Testing in the Dairy Industry Perform?

How Does Microbial Testing in the Dairy Industry Perform?

LABTEK Services provide various products and services to support every need of your dairy industry microbiology testing process. We know that microbes are present everywhere around us. They may be harmless or may be a reason for contamination or health related problems. They may spoil our food, infrastructure or may contaminate the sterile environment. Microbiology testing is a very crucial step for maintaining quality and safety of raw material and products in the dairy industry.

For this challenge LABTEK Services provide high quality environment monitoring facilities, various lab supplies to check the presence of microbes for rapid and reliable results. 

 WHY MICROBE TESTING IS IMPORTANT?

Product testing remains an important step in every food manufacturing system. Microbes can be easily grown in raw materials like milk because they provide a favorable environment for growth of bacteria, yeast and mold.  So regular sampling of microbes is very important. We can use biochemical, biological or molecular methods for detection of microbes in air, food, and clinical samples.

IDENTIFICATION OF MICROBES

For the management of food quality and sterility identification and characterization of microbes sometimes it becomes very important to know about the source of microorganisms. Some microbes can survive in various adverse conditions, so we can use some microbiology techniques to identify the source.  Some factors like the increase of air humidity may be a cause of increase of air borne microorganism numbers.

Microbes and Shelf life of product

Shelf life of food is very important in the food, dairy industry. So it becomes the responsibility of manufacturer that they give idea about the self-life of product. So different test are performed in different conditions of presence of related organism.

Examples of microbes may be present as contaminants.

E.coli

Candida

Aspergillus species

Or maybe yeast, mold, parasites etc.

We are happy to provide various laboratory supplies in the UK for your testing needs.

We offer various testing facilities like

  • Air quality testing
  • Water quality testing
  • Mold and bacteria testing
  • Pathogen sample testing
  • Pathogen surface testing

How we test air quality

Air present in the processing area may contaminate our food and affect their quality. Dairy products like butter, buttermilk, curd, fermented milk products are more susceptible for contamination by air borne microbes. So controlling the quality of air in cleanrooms, filling halls play an important role in contamination control. We provide settle plates for microbial air monitoring.

Why are these settle plates the best?

  • Ready to use
  • Triple wrapped irradiated
  • Shelf life for 20 weeks
  • Contain medium for isolation of yeast and fungi

Air Settle Test – SDA Aircheck Yeasts and Fungi- pk of 10

LTS high quality settle plates are best for the dairy industry, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry. Our settle plates are triple gamma irradiated in final packing. The 90 mm plate size contains 20 ml media which is translucent and pale yellow gel incubated at 25 oc for the detection of yeast and molds. Pack size of these plates is 10.

Settle plate test- TSA air check pack of 10.

  • Air quality monitoring plates.
  • 90mm pour plates contain tryptic soy agar (tsa) plates.
  • Growth of bacteria and fungi.
  • Pack of 10 triple wrapped.
  • Self-life 26 weeks.
  • Incubation 25 to 37oc.

Air samplers, sas super IAQ

Sas sampler iaq tool has the same efficiency as provided by the setter plate method. It is best for the pharmaceutical and dairy industry for monitoring and air quality testing. Benefits of using it for Microbiological air monitoring in dairy industry are:

  • Contain all accessories for microbiological air sampling.
  • Easy to use
  • Low cost
  • Light weight
  • Operate in any environment.
  • Durable construction
  • Long shelf –life  up to 18 months
  • Aoac, microval, noroval approved.

Last not least, we as a renowned Dairy QC Specialists in the UK, have a wide range of lab supplies and services. You can trust us for dairy, food & beverage, and water services as we hold a great team of experts from 35 years.

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