Accredited Food Contaminant Testing Services
Protect your brand integrity and ensure regulatory compliance with comprehensive food contaminant testing. Mérieux NutriSciences AQ provides precise chemical analysis for heavy metals, mycotoxins, residues, and industrial chemical contaminants to safeguard your supply chain.

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Advanced Chemical Contaminant Testing for Complete Food Safety
Chemical contaminants, ranging from environmental heavy metals like lead and arsenic to naturally occurring toxins such as mycotoxins, pose critical risks to consumer health and brand reputation. Mérieux NutriSciences AQ delivers high-precision analytical services designed to identify trace-level impurities across raw ingredients, environmental matrices, and processed food products.
Our accredited laboratories utilise advanced chromatographic and spectroscopic technologies to ensure compliance with national and international food safety standards. With *****single-source convenience, Mérieux NutriSciences AQ supports your quality management team at every stage of production.

Comprehensive Contaminants Scope
Benefit from methods validated across a broad range of simple and complex matrices, from raw agricultural inputs to shelf-ready goods.
Accredited Chemical & Contaminant Analysis Capabilities
Protect your supply chain and maintain strict compliance with our comprehensive testing services. Mérieux NutriSciences AQ delivers high-precision screening across a wide range of chemical contaminants, heavy metals, and residue risks and all supported by validated methodologies.
Heavy Metals & Trace Element Detection
Identify toxic heavy metals, including lead, arsenic, cadmium, and mercury, ensuring your products fall well within strict statutory maximum residue limits (MRLs).
Mycotoxin & Aflatoxin Analysis
Screen for harmful fungal toxins, including Aflatoxins B1, B2, G1, G2, and M1 across grains, nuts, dairy, and processed food matrices.
R&D & Quality Partner
Supporting product launches, reformulations, and label audits.

Single-Source Testing Efficiency
Consolidate your chemical contaminant, allergen, and microbiological testing requirements under one roof to simplify logistics and sample handling.
Global Expertise
Access local laboratory support together with the scientific knowledge, technologies and specialist capabilities of the wider Mérieux NutriSciences network.
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Local Support
Work with an Australian-based team that understands local food businesses, regulatory requirements and regional supply chains.
Global Expertise
Access local laboratory support together with the scientific knowledge, technologies and specialist capabilities of the wider Mérieux NutriSciences network.
Accredited Lab
Our laboratories are NATA-accredited to ISO/IEC 17025.
Single-Source Laboratory
Streamline your quality assurance with Mérieux NutriSciences AQ – your single-source laboratory for all food safety, allergen, and compliance testing.
Comprehensive Matrix Scopes
Benefit from accredited methods validated across a broad range of complex matrices, from raw agricultural inputs to finished, shelf-ready goods.
Allergen Cross-Contamination & VITAL Support
Combine chemical impurity screening with quantitative allergen cross-contact testing to support your facility’s VITAL (Voluntary Incidental Trace Allergen Labelling) risk management plans.
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If you are looking for a scientific partner to assist you with routine food safety testing or more complex analyses, we are your food testing laboratory of choice. Contact us to discuss your needs.
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