The Food Microbiology Laboratory’s aim is to assist individuals as well as corporate organizations that are food safety conscious, in ensuring that the food they are eating are safe.
The Laboratory will provide testing assistance to adhere to either your own company’s set acceptable limits or compliance against National Food Regulations that are currently enforced in Mauritius or even against other countries’ regulations if need be.
The laboratory carries out microbiological analysis of a wide range of food and food products namely potable/tap or bottled drinking water and other beverages, all fish and fish products, meat and meat products and animal feeds and milk and dairy products and other food matrices.
The testing activities are conducted by well-trained personnel in a fully-equipped lab and cover various tests namely detection of pathogens such as Salmonella species, enumeration tests of a number of micro-organisms namely
Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Yeasts and Moulds as well as the Total Microbial Count test.
(See list of services provided below that is a comprehensive list).
List of all Services offered by the Food Microbiology Laboratory
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Test Parameters |
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1 |
Total viable count at 22 oC |
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2 |
Total viable count at 30oC |
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3 |
Total viable count at 37oC |
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4 |
Total coliform |
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5 |
Echerichia coli |
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6 |
Salmonella species |
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8 |
Yeast and moulds |
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9 |
Coagulase positive staphylococci |
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12 |
Beta glucorunidase positive Escherichia coli |
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15 |
Cleaning and disinfection efficacy test (indicator test to evaluate the efficiency of cleaning methods) |
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16 |
Evaluation of air microflora (This test assesses the microbial load of air inside a processing plant) |
Contact person: Ms. M Nagamootoo
