Lab Analyses

One Scien­tific Ltd is a UKAS accred­ited testing labo­ra­tory No. 2048 offering a wide range of micro­bi­o­log­ical testing of all food types including food, drink and dairy from our accred­ited and RSA (M&S & Tesco) approved laboratory.

We offer a range of micro­bi­o­log­ical water tests in all water types including process, potable, bore­hole and BSRIA to support the water treat­ment industry.

Food Testing

Food safety and the preven­tion of micro­bi­o­log­ical cont­a­m­i­na­tion is a priority and a legisla­tive require­ment at all stages of food manu­fac­turing and supply chain.

Pathogen Testing

• Salmo­nella spp
• Listeria mono­cy­to­genes
• Listeria spp
• E.coli O157
• Campy­lobacter spp
• Vibrio spp

Rapid Testing (VIDAS)

• Salmo­nella spp
• Listeria mono­cy­to­genes
• Listeria spp

Enumer­a­tion Testing

• Clostridium perfrin­gens
• Coliforms
• Escherichia coli
• Enter­obac­te­ri­aceae
• Pseudomonas spp
• Ente­ro­cocci
• Bacillus cereus
• Staphy­lo­coccus aureus
• Aerobic plate count
• Lactic acid bacteria
• Yeast and Mould­sPseudomonas aeruginosa
• Aceto­bacter
• Bacillus spp

Water Testing

Whether you are using water from a bore­hole, potable water as a raw mate­rial, or are a manu­fac­turer, water quality is essen­tial for the envi­ron­ment and public safety.

We can test the following water types:

• Potable Water
• Raw Water
• Private Water Supplies
• Natural Mineral Water, Spring Water and Bottled Water
• Swim­ming Pool and Spa Water
• Process Water
• Waste­water
• Closed Water Systems/​Tanks
• RO (Reverse Osmosis) Water

For the following micro­bi­o­log­ical tests:

• Legionella spp.
• Total Viable Counts (TVC)
• Escherichia coli
• Coliforms
• Ente­ro­cocci
• Sulphite reducing Clostridia
• Pseudomonas aerug­i­nosa
• Pseudomonas spp.
• Nitrate Reducing Bacteria
• Nitrite Oxidising Bacteria
• Sulphate Reducing Bacteria
• Staphy­lo­coccus spp.
• Bacillus spp.
• Shigella
• Flavobac­terium
• Mould

If required, results of Legionella testing can be reported 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Your results are avail­able in real time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week via our secure web-based labPortal system.

Swab Testing

Hygiene is one the most crit­ical factors in any food manu­fac­turing oper­a­tion and forms a funda­mental part of your HACCP due diligence.

Swab­bing is a quick, cost effec­tive method for moni­toring the hygiene of both your premises and staff.

Swab­bing moni­tors the effec­tive­ness of the food factory hygiene program and vali­dates cleaning procedures.

We can test for the following micro­bi­o­log­ical organisms:

• Listeria spp
• Salmo­nella spp
• Aerobic mesophilic count
• Coliforms
• Enter­obac­te­ri­aceae
• Escherichia coli
• Pseudomonas spp
• Staphy­lo­coccus aureus
• Yeasts and Moulds
• Bacillus cereus
• Clostridium perfrin­gens
• Lactic acid bacteria
• Escherichia coli O157

Air quality testing

Micro­bi­o­log­ical moni­toring of air is a key compo­nent of envi­ron­mental moni­toring in organ­i­sa­tions such as hospi­tals, food facto­ries, clean­rooms and other controlled envi­ron­ments. Air plates are inex­pen­sive, easy to use and ideal for providing an early warning of prob­lems in envi­ron­ments such as a high-risk food factory.

We can provide air plates for air quality moni­toring and gener­ally test for the following micro­bi­o­log­ical organisms:

• Aerobic Colony count
• Yeasts and Moulds

Non-routine testing

In addi­tion to routine micro­bi­o­log­ical testing, we can offer the following:

• Chal­lenge testing

  to simu­late what could happen to a product following inoc­u­la­tion with rele­vant micro-organism(s) and storage under the repre­sen­ta­tive conditions.

• Real time and accel­er­ated shelf-life evaluations

  shelf-life deter­mi­na­tion is essen­tial when devel­oping new food prod­ucts. When time constraints are limited some form of shelf-life predic­tion is useful. One Scien­tific performs ​‘real time’ and ​‘accel­er­ated’ shelf-life testing; the latter is a useful predic­tive tool for both NPD and troubleshooting.

• Alleged food poisoning

  when a consumer claims an alleged illness after consuming food it is impor­tant to everyone involved to find out whether their complaint is justi­fied. One Scien­tific can offer specialist advice and testing should this situ­a­tion occur.

• On-site trou­bleshooting and consultancy

  our specialist team of scien­tific special­ists and consul­tants are able to help with queries over the phone and onsite.

• In-labo­ra­tory basic micro­bi­o­log­ical training

  training for food QA staff in the prin­ci­ples of micro­bi­ology, testing of their prod­ucts, time frames and inter­pre­ta­tion of their results.

• Tailored research

  we can offer a bespoke service tailored to suit your food busi­ness requirements.

One Scien­tific offer a wide range of food and water chem­istry testing at compet­i­tive prices, with rapid turn­around. In addi­tion to food nutri­tional testing, we can offer water treat­ment chem­ical analysis and provide specialist chem­istry testing to meet your requirements.

Nutri­tional

One Scien­tific Ltd offer a wide range of chem­ical analysis including nutri­tional labelling.

Our priority is to ensure that our customer’s meet all their food manu­fac­turing legisla­tive requirements.

Using modern analyt­ical equip­ment, One Scien­tific provides customers with a cost-effec­tive quality service for nutri­tional analysis, including:

• Energy
• Nitrogen
• Protein
• Total fat
• Fatty acid profile
• Total dietary fibre
• Avail­able carbohydrate
• Total sugars
• Sodium
• Salt
• Meat content

Food Chem­istry

Our priority is to ensure that our customer’s meet all their food manu­fac­turing legisla­tive requirements.

Using modern analyt­ical equip­ment, One Scien­tific provides customers with a cost-effec­tive quality service for chem­ical analysis, including:

• Acidity (pH)
• Water activity
• Peroxide value & free fatty acids
• Vitamin and minerals
• Sulphur dioxide
• Pesti­cide and residue testing
• Salt in aqueous

Water Chem­istry

One Scien­tific Ltd. offer a wide range of inor­ganic and organic chem­ical analysis from our modern laboratory.

Our priority is to ensure that our customer’s meet all legisla­tive require­ments asso­ci­ated with water quality. Using modern analytic equip­ment One Scien­tific can provide customers with a cost-effec­tive quality service for chem­istry water testing.

This analysis includes:

• Conduc­tivity
• Total Dissolved Solids (TDS)
• pH
• Hard­ness
• Alka­linity
• Nitrate
• Sodium
• Heavy Metals
• Suspended Solids
• Turbidity
• Oxygen Absorbed (OA)

One Scien­tific Ltd is a UKAS accred­ited testing labo­ra­tory No. 2048 offering a range of accred­ited allergen, authen­ticity and virus testing, using ELISA & PCR tech­niques for finished product samples, raw ingre­di­ents, and swab samples.

Aller­gens

Food allergen testing is essen­tial in ensuring your regu­la­tory compli­ance and protecting consumers. We offer compre­hen­sive allergen testing to detect aller­genic ingre­di­ents and allergen cross-cont­a­m­i­na­tion that can occur during the food supply chain.

We can offer the following testing:

Aller­gens by ELISA:

• Almond
• Beta-lactoglob­ulin
• Casein
• Crus­tacea
• Egg
• Gluten
• Hist­a­mine
• Mustard
• Peanut
• Sesame
• Soya

Aller­gens by PCR:

• Almond
• Celery
• Fish
• Molluscs
• Peanut

Authen­ticity and Animal Speciation

Animal species iden­ti­fi­ca­tion in food has increas­ingly acquired impor­tance due to public health, economic and legal concerns. Reli­gious and ethical criteria can be at risk in the case of food adul­ter­ation. For vege­tarian or vegan food, the pres­ence of traces of animal prod­ucts needs to be ruled out.

We can offer the following testing:

Meat speci­a­tion by PCR:

• Beef
• Pork
• Poultry
• Horse
• Sheep
• Goat
• Turkey

We can also offer accred­ited Animal DNA testing to check the vegan status of food prod­ucts and ingre­di­ents providing highly sensi­tive detec­tion of any animal species.

Norovirus and Hepatitis A in Food

Detecting food­borne viruses at an early stage and keeping an effec­tive surveil­lance program is crit­ical for food and envi­ron­mental safety. One Scien­tific are proud to be seeking UKAS accred­i­ta­tion for the detec­tion of food­borne viruses including human noroviruses and Hepatitis A in food.

One Scien­tific can manu­fac­ture a range of quality controlled prepared media prod­ucts and can supply a range of labo­ra­tory equip­ment and consum­ables at very compet­i­tive prices, including the below:

Ready prepared media

• Pre-poured plates
• Pre-prepared broths
• Contact plates
• Dip slides
• Bespoke media

Labo­ra­tory supplies

• Water bottles
• Swabs
• Petri dishes
• Powdered media and supplements
• Labo­ra­tory equipment
• Hygiene wipes
• Food bags and containers