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Agricultural Solutions
Symbio Laboratories provides a range of agriculture testing services across various applications within the agricultural industries. The services offered include comprehensive testing for cattle, stockfeed, grain, and seafood.
Our state of the art analytical laboratories provide agriculture testing for residue, chemical, microbiological, nutritional and environmental analyses to ensure your products are fit for market, complying with safety and regulatory frameworks.
In need for an agricultural testing solution?
Our team is ready to help.
Aquaculture Testing
Symbio Laboratories has built a strong reputation as an independent provider of analytical test services to seafood producers and processors. We can meet all your seafood testing needs for residue, chemical, microbiological, nutritional and environmental analyses.
For fast, reliable results in seafood testing, let Symbio Laboratories assist you with any aspect of your quality assurance and product specification. Over 2000 different tests are conducted through our laboratory, and the following capabilities are of relevance to the seafood and aquaculture industries:
- Total viable counts (SPC)
- Coliforms, E. coli
- Salmonella
- Listeria species and/or L. monocytogenes
- Staphylococci
- Pesticides
- Antibiotics and Antimicrobials
- Heavy Metals
- Histamine
- Sulphur Dioxide
Nutritional profiles (e.g. protein, fat, fibre, fatty acid profile, vitamins, metals and other elements)
Dairy
Our success over the last 27 years is largely attributed to our constant quest for innovation in testing solutions that will deliver ever more accurate results in an operationally efficient manner that will reduce the overall cost of testing. It is this philosophy that has been at the centre of Symbio’s expansion into the dairy market. Symbio has invested in the latest instruments – available nowhere else in Australia. Furthermore these instruments, all 10 of them, have been installed at our Perth, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane laboratories to ensure continuity of results across Australia. These instruments utilize near infra red (NIR) and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) analysis which allows for very rapid and accurate determination of a wide range of parameters in milk.
Liquid Milk Testing
- Listeria
- Bacterial Count
- Freezing Point
- Somatic Cell Count
- Fats
- Lactose protein
- Pesticides
- Residues and contaminants
- Elements
- Hydrocarbons
- Industrial Chemicals
Grain
Consumers along every step of the food chain demand confidence in the safety and nutrition of the products they are buying, selling or using. Verification by analysis for nutritional composition, product quality, absence of residues and mycotoxins or to quantify physical characteristics is essential in the grain commodity and stockfeed business.
Symbio Laboratories is one of Australia’s largest independent food and agricultural laboratories and has a unique blend of expertise and experience in the stockfeed and grain industries.
Catering to some of Australia’s leading agricultural companies, Symbio Laboratories can assist you in all aspects of quality assurance and product specification.
Enhanced AusScan Calibration
Symbio Laboratories is pleased to announce that we are now able to deliver the enhanced AusScan calibration set through our Brisbane laboratory, giving you access to in vivo energy calibrations for poultry, swine and ruminants.
For a detailed breakdown of our AusScan Online parameters and turnarounds, view our comprehensive PDF here.
Bacterial, Mould, and Yeast isolates
- Pesticides
- Antibiotics and Antimicrobials
- Heavy Metals
- Histamine
- Sulphur Dioxide
Nutritional profiles (e.g. protein, fat, fibre, fatty acid profile, vitamins, metals and other elements)
Livestock
The quality of the diet consumed by cattle is one of the main determinants of productivity (reproductive performance, growth rate and carcass quality). However, conventional methods of estimating the diet quality of grazing cattle are costly, time consuming and generally unreliable.
Because of the importance of diet quality in driving productivity, the ability to make inexpensive and reliable estimates of this trait can allow producers to acquire critical information for efficient production systems and enhanced economic viability. This is especially valuable when making decisions in relation to strategic and cost-effective supplementation. New technology based on the analysis of cattle faeces using Near lnfrared Reflectance Spectroscopy (NIRS) is breaking fertile ground in the quick, inexpensive and reliable prediction of diet quality of grazing cattle.
Produce
Symbio Laboratories has built a strong reputation as an independent provider of Fruit, Vegetable and Nut testing to producers and processors, and meet all your testing needs for residue, chemical, microbiological, nutritional and environmental analyses. We can complete all of the testing required for the Freshcare program, and the major supermarkets’ quality assurance program requirements.
- Total viable counts
- Coliforms
- Faecal coliforms
- E. coli
- Salmonella
- Listeria species and/or L. monocytogenes
- Staphylococci
- Insecticides
- Acaricides
- Fungicides
- Herbicides
Carbamates - Dithiocarbamates
- Fruit dip wash
- Aflatoxins
- Heavy metals
- Nitrates
Stockfeed
Symbio Laboratories works with many of Australia’s leading stockfeed and supplement suppliers to provide assistance with raw material specification, product development and research. Many of Australia’s largest feedlots rely on analysis from Symbio Laboratories for the specification of their raw materials and monitoring of feed quality systems.
Staff at Symbio Laboratories have extensive experience in the livestock, stockfeed and supplement industries so that clients not only receive accurate and timely results from their product testing, but also have access to interpretation services, to ensuring laboratory results are utilized appropriately within their production system.
Analysis available includes:
- Total viable counts
- Coliforms
- Faecal coliforms,
- E. coli
- Salmonella
- Listeria species and/or L. monocytogenes
- Staphylococci
- Insecticides
- Acaricides
- Fungicides
- Herbicides
- Carbamates
- Dithiocarbamates
- Fruit dip wash
- Aflatoxins
- Heavy metals
- Nitrates
- Quality parameters (e.g. peroxide value, acid value, free fatty acids)
- Nutritional profiles (e.g. protein, fat, fibre, fatty acid profile, vitamins, elements)