Geo-Chem Middle East is one of the leading service providers for microbiological testing in Middle East. The microbiological testing portfolio includes analytical services to detect pathogenic microbes and their toxins (such as Salmonellae, Listeriae, Legionella) or organisms causing decay (such as yeasts, fungi or moulds), to provide hygiene checks (e.g. site inspections but also sterility tests in packaging materials, measurement of airborne microbes) with the aim of making foods and other products such as cosmetics safer for our clients, meeting statutory requirements and protecting the consumer.

Geo-Chem Middle East analyses according to the relevant local regulations but can also offer testing according to APHA/CCFRA/WHO/FDA-BAM.

Geo-Chem Middle East offers also sample taking, samples collection, Matrices

Geo-Chem Middle East offers analytical testing for a large number of matrices in some of the following food and product groups :

o Food
o Drinking water
o Animal feed
o Cosmetics
o Food ingredients/additives

Pathogens and Toxins
Our microbiological testing detects and identifies a large number of pathogenic micro-organisms (pathogens) and their toxins, such as:

o Listeria monocytogenes
o Salmonella
o Legionella pneumophila
o Escherichia coli
o Vibrio spp.
o Clostridium perfringens
o Bacillus cereus
o Enterobacter
o Enterotoxins
o Staphylococcus aureus

Related services
In addition to the above, Geo-Chem Middle East offers some of the following related microbiological tests:

o Challenge tests
o Characterisation of micro-organisms (including the identification /    characterisation of micro-organism strains)
o Shelf-life studies
o Hygiene parameters