Frozen Seafood Testing
Ait offers a wide variety of frozen seafood testing for ensuring seafood safety and compliance at all stages of production.
Solutions for Seafood Safety:
- Fish freshness control using the Quality Index Method (QIM) and organoleptic checks (smell, look, texture)
- Grading (A, B or C) based on fish and seafood quality
- Tests to identify residues of heavy metals, histamines, and biotoxins
- Process control with a glazed/deglazed test and drip loss test to prevent food fraud
- Standard size control to ensure uniform production in term of size and weight
- Defectives check against international regulations, national standards, and your specifications
- Microbiological tests
Frozen Seafood Testing Expertise
Fully accredited AiT offer a wide variety of tests that help you ensure quality and safety of your seafood. All lab testing programs can be customized to your specifications and methodologies, as well as the standards of your destination market.
We offer the following lab tests for seafood goods:
- Species identification (DNA analysis)
- Marine biotoxins (ASP, DSP, PSP) and histamine
- Conventional and rapid detection pathogen tests (Vibrio, Listeria, Salmonella, Shigella, Staphylococcus, E. coli, Campylobacter, Cronobacter, Clostridium)
- Veterinary residue MRL and MRPL (antibiotics, antiparasitics, hormones)
- Contaminants (heavy metals, radionuclides, dioxins, plasticizers, mycotoxins, MOSH, MOAH, PAH, PFT, pesticides, allergens)
- Freshness and sensory qualities (color, texture, odor, flavor)
- Food packaging tests (migration and residual levels of toxins)
- Shelf life and stability testing
- Fish meal testing
- Sampling and analysis of FDA-detained products
Frozen Seafood Audits
AiT audits help you receive an accurate picture of manufacturing and ethical compliance in your food supply chain.
Hygiene audits (GHP) are designed to ensure that your food suppliers’ facilities abide to international regulations on hygiene.
Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) audits help you achieve GMP compliance and secure safety in your seafood supply chain.
Ethical audits investigate your suppliers for social compliance, including working conditions and worker rights, helping you eliminate any instances of labor abuse from your seafood supply chain.
