Dietary Supplements & Botanicals Testing

Botanical dietary supplements, sometimes called herbals or herbal dietary supplements, are products made from plants, plant parts, or plant extracts. They are meant to be consumed and contain one or more ingredients meant to supplement the diet.

Light and Heavy Filth

With the increased importation of ground spices and the need to evaluate other commodities for filth, Certified Laboratories utilizes sophisticated Micro-analytical techniques to determine if any extraneous materials have entered the supply chain and identify those materials or insects using the latest extraction techniques and comprehensive microscopic examinations. Our Forensics team can discover a great deal about the conditions under which your products were held and produced by using separation techniques and skilled element identification. Light and Heavy Filth Analysis of Raw Material and Finished Product is routinely performed on Spices, Paprika and other Capsicums, Tamarind & Tamarind Products, Mushrooms (canned & dried), Shrimp, Crab Meat, Cocoa Powder & Chocolate Products, Fruit (dried), Candy, Coffee, Cookies, Tomatoes (canned) & Tomato Products, Corn Chips, Corn Meal, Egg Products, Flour, Gum, Hot Sauce & Salsa, Nut meals, Pasta Products, Rice Sticks, Sugar, Tortillas and other products.

Sanitation (Macro Filth Analysis)

The presence of extraneous matter (filth) in spices has long been a major concern of the industry and of FDA. “Filth” can best be described as the extraneous matters left behind by contaminants of the products. These include whole insects and fragments, excreta, rat and mouse hairs and feather barbules. Certified Laboratories is recognized as experts in the field. Certified Laboratories stays current with complex and changing FDA methodology as well as FDA Defect Action Levels (DAL’s) enabling us to tell you quickly and accurately whether or not your shipment will pass the rigid FDA and ASTA standards established for “Filth” methods. As active ASTA members, we have been part of the development of ASTA sanitation program which also includes testing of oregano for sumac and other adulterants. We are proud to have been part of the working group that established and validated the current method for ASTA.

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