We provide specialized testing services for herbs, spices, and condiments, including fresh herbs, ground spices, sauces, pickles, and seasoning blends.
Our tests cover parameters such as microbial contamination, pesticide residues, flavor profile analysis, chemical composition, and food safety compliance.
These evaluations ensure the safety, authenticity, and quality of your products, helping deliver flavorful and safe culinary ingredients to consumers

General Chemical Parameters:

• Added Bleach or Preservative
• Added Colouring Matter
• Added starch
• Alcohol soluble Extract
• Ash Insoluble in dil. HCl on dry basis
• Bitterness expressed as direct reading of absorbance of picrocrocine at about 257 nm
• Broken
• Broken berries
• Broken fruits, seed & fragments
• Bulk density
• Calcium
• Capsaicinoid
• Carbohydrate
• Cold Water-Soluble Extract
• Colouring strength expressed as direct reading of absorbance of 440 nm
• Crude fiber
• Curcumin content
• Damaged / Discoloured fruits
• Damaged or Shrivelled seeds
• Defective Rhizomes
• Defective Seeds
• Dietry fiber
• Empty and malformed capsules by count
• Energy
• Extraneous Matter
• Fat
• Floral waste
• Foreign Matter
• Free from ammoniaccum resin
• Free from any other foreign resin
• Free from colophony resin
• Free from dead insects
• Free from extraneous flavour
• Free from foreign odours
• Free from galbonum resin
• Free from insect fragments
• Free from living insects
• Free from mould
• Free from mustiness
• Free from other harmful substances
• Free from rodent contamination
• Headless cloves
• Immature And Shrivelled
• Immature and shrivelled capsules
• Insect damaged cloves
• Insect Damged Matter
• Insect defiled berries /Corns
• Iron
• Khokar Cloves
• Lead chromate test
• Light berries
• Light seeds
• Light seeds / Brown / Red seeds
• Mammalian or/and other excreta
• Mineral oil
• Moisture
• Mouldy Berries
• Mouldy seeds
• Mustiness
• Non-Volatile Ether extract on dry basis
• Other edible Seeds
• Pinheads for black pepper
• Piperine content
• Proportion of damaged /Defective fruit
• Protein
• Rancidity
• Safranal expressed as direct reading of absorbance of 330nm
• Sodium
• Solubility in cold water
• Split fruits
• Tendrils, Mother Cloves
• Total Ash on dry basis
• Total Nitrogen
• Total Starch
• Unripe and marked fruits
• Volatile oil
• Water soluble Ash
• Water-Insoluble Ash
• Weevilled

Heavy Metals:

• Arsenic (as As)  
• Cadmium (as Cd)  
• Copper (as Cu)  
• Lead (as Pb)  
• Mercury (as Hg)  
• Methyl Mercury (as CH3Hg)  
• Tin (as Sn)

Pesticide Residues:

• Chlorantraniliprole  
• Cyantraniliprole  
• Diafenthiuron  
• Epoxyconazole  
• Fenpyroximate  
• Flubendiamide  
• Fosetyl-Al  
• Imidacloprid  
• Indoxacarb  
• Kresoxim Methyl  
• Lufenuron  
• Monocrotophos  
• Oxadiargyl  
• Pyraclostrobin  
• Quinalphos  
• Tebuconazole  
• Triadimefon  
• Trifloxystrobin

Naturally Occurring Toxic Substances (NOTs):

• Agaric acid  
• Hydrocyanic acid  
• Hypericine  
• Melamine  
• Safrole

Aflatoxins and Mycotoxins:

• Aflatoxin B1  
• Total Aflatoxin (B1+B2 +G1+G2)  

Microbiological Analysis Parameters

• Bacillus cereus  
• Coliform Count  
• Enterobacteriaceae  
• Escherichia coli  
• Listeria Monocytogenes
• Salmonella  
• Shigella  
• Staphylococcus aureus   
• Sulphite Reducing Clostridia  
• Total Plate Count/ Aerobic Colony Count  
• Yeast & Mould Count