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Microbiology testing for reference and contract laboratories.
Reference and third-party laboratories carry the traceability obligation for everyone who sends them a sample — method validation, positive controls and inter-laboratory comparison all depend on reference material they can defend. We supply the standards that make that possible.
Your testing reality
Reference and contract laboratories operate under a different pressure than a manufacturer's in-house QC team: every result has to be defensible to a client who wasn't in the room. Method validation, proficiency testing and inter-laboratory comparison all depend on reference cultures with documented traceability back to a recognised collection — not just a culture that grows the right colony colour.
That traceability requirement runs through the whole testing programme, not just the reference standards. Method validation studies, positive and negative controls, and the quantitative reference cultures used to verify a new lot of media all carry the same documentation obligation ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation depends on.
Because reference laboratories test across every matrix their clients send — food, beverage, pharmaceutical, environmental — the breadth of organisms and methods in regular use is wider here than in any single manufacturing segment.
- Defensible to a client, not just an auditor
Every result needs traceability a client who wasn't in the room can verify, not just an internal record.
- Turnaround across every matrix
Client samples arrive from food, beverage, pharmaceutical and environmental sources — turnaround expectations vary by client, not by method.
- Proficiency and inter-lab comparison
Method validation, proficiency testing and inter-laboratory comparison all depend on the same traceable reference material.
What to test for
The full canonical panel — reference laboratories test across every matrix their clients send.
The core panelPathogens for safety · indicators for control
- Salmonellapathogen
- Listeriapathogen
- Escherichia colipathogen
- Campylobacterpathogen
- Total Microbial Countindicator
- Coliformindicator
- Enterobacteriaceaeindicator
- Yeast and Mouldindicator
Methods for your operation
Method breadth matters more than method preference — reference labs run whatever a client's method requires.
- Traditional · ISOFor method validation and reference work
The full range of ISO reference culture methods, for validation studies and results that need to be defensible to any client's method.
- RapidFor routine client throughput
Ready-to-use formats for the routine screening volume that makes up most day-to-day client work.
- Molecular · PCRFor client-specified confirmation
Real-time PCR and ELISA where a client's own method specifies molecular confirmation.
Products for reference labs
A representative selection across the core panel. The full range is available in the catalogue.
Results that
withstand scrutiny.
Every product is supplied against recognised methods and validation — culture media according to ISO methods, rapid media plates with AOAC certifications, and world renowned reference materials with documented traceability — dispatched by an SFDA-licensed company. Suitable for use in ISO/IEC 17025 accredited laboratories.
Laboratory-ready traceabilitySuitable for ISO/IEC 17025 accredited workflows.
Independent method validationAOAC-certified rapid media plates for routine testing.
Licensed Saudi supplyProducts dispatched through an SFDA-licensed company.
Sourced from the brands your methods are built on.
Building or upgrading your testing programme?
Tell us your product lines and the organisms you're required to test — we'll recommend methods and respond with pricing, availability and lead time.