Analyzable goods

• Vegetable and animal foodstuffs, feedstuffs
• "Allergen-free" products (gluten-free, without nuts)
• Dairy-free products

Scope of analysis

• Allergens according to EU regulation
• Gluten
• various nuts (hazelnut, Brazil nut, cashew nut, walnut)
• almond, pistachio, peanut
• milk, whey protein, lysozyme, egg
• soybean, mustard, sesame, celery, lupine
• Food intolerances
• Biogenic amines (e.g. histamine in wine, beer)
• Lactose

Additional services

• Expert opinion and customer consultation

Contact

Institute Food Safety Vienna lebensmittel.wien@ages.at Spargelfeldstraße 191 1220 Vienna

Analyzable goods

• Food
• Feed

Scope of analysis

• Fluoride
• Chloride
• phosphate, di-, triphosphate
• sulfurous acid, sulfate
• iodide
• bromide

Contact

Institute for Food Safety Vienna lebensmittel.wien@ages.at Spargelfeldstraße 191 1220 Vienna

Analyzable goods

• various foodstuffs such as chewing gum, spice mixtures, soups, oils and very fatty samples

Scope of analysis

• butylhydroxytoluene (BHT)
• butyl hydroxyanisole (BHA)

Instrumental equipment

• HPLC-FLD

Contact

office_lms@ages.at Spargelfeldstraße 191 1220 Vienna

Analysable goods

• Plant and animal foodstuffs, animal feed and seeds
• Animal foodstuffs (e.g. fish and fishery products)
• Animal feed (e.g. PET food)
• Varietal authenticity (e.g. wheat, barley)
• Authenticity of foodstuffs such as honey and fruit juices using NMR
• Authenticity of coffee (differentiation between Arabica and Robusta coffee)
• Origin of honey using NMR

Scope of analysis

• Species differentiation (e.g. animal species, plant species and varieties)
• Determination of animal species in food and feed
• Barcoding of animal species in food (sequencing)

Additional services

• Expertise and customer advice

Contact us

Institute for Food Safety Vienna
lebensmittel.wien@ages.at
Spargelfeldstraße 191
1220 Vienna

Analyzable goods

• Vegetable food
• Spices
• Herbs
• Teas
• Dried fruits
• Tuberous fruits
• Food supplements
• Nuts
• Nuts
• Berries
• Meat
• Fish
• Seafood

Scope of examination

• Evidence of treatment with ionizing radiation

Additional services

• Customer consultation

Contact

Institute Food Safety Vienna lebensmittel.wien@ages.at Spargelfeldstraße 191 1220 Vienna

Analyzable goods

• Food
• Animal food
  • Fish
  • Meat
  • Cheese
• Alcoholic beverages
  • Beer

Scope of investigation

Biogenic amines

Additional services

• Customer consulting

Contact

Institute Food Safety Vienna lebensmittel.wien@ages.at Spargelfeldstraße 191 1220 Vienna

Analyzable goods

• vegetable foodstuffs such as linseed, almonds, cassava, apricot kernels, bitter almonds marzipan, stone fruit preserves

Scope of analysis

• Hydrogen cyanide

Instrumental equipment

• HPLC-FLD

Contact

office_lms@ages.at Spargelfeldstraße 191 1220 Vienna

Qualitative determination of colorants in foodstuffs

Analyzable goods

• Confectionery
• Other food
• Additives

Scope of analysis

• Tartrazine (E 102)
• Quinoline Yellow (E 104)
• yellow orange S (E 110)
• True carmine (E 120)
• Azorubin (Carmoisin) (E 122)
• Amaranth (E 123)
• Cochineal red A (Ponceau 4R) (E 124)
• Erythrosine (E 127)
• Red 2G (E 128)
• Allura red AC (E 129)
• Patent blue V (E 131)
• Indigotine (Indigo carmine) (E 132)
• Brilliant blue FCF (E133)
• Green S (E 142)
• Brilliant black PN (Black PN) (E 151)

Contact Institute Food Safety Linz lebensmittel.linz@ages.at Wieningerstraße 8 4020 Linz Institute Food Safety Vienna lebensmittel.wien@ages.at Spargelfeldstraße 191 1220 Vienna

Illegal colorants in food

Analyzable goods

• Basic and dry fixed products, funds
• Coloring agents for food
• Spices, spice mixtures, spice preparations
• Plant foods such as pasta, confectionery, ...
• Edible oils, palm oil
• Seasonings, seasoning sauces
• Additives for meat production

Scope of investigation

• Butter yellow
• Orange II (C.I. 15510)
• Pararot
• Rhodamine B
• Sudan orange G
• Sudan red G
• Sudan Red I (C.I. 12150)
• Sudan red II
• Sudan red III
• Sudan red IV
• Sudan red VII B
• Sudan Black B
• Toluidine Red

Contact

Institute of Food Safety Innsbruck lebensmittel.innsbruck@ages.at Technikerstraße 70 6020 Innsbruck

Analyzable goods

• Food

Scope of analysis

• Off-flavors

Additional services

• Customer advisory service

Contact

Institute Food Safety Vienna lebensmittel.wien@ages.at Spargelfeldstraße 191 1220 Vienna

Analyzable goods

Foodstuffs

• Edible oils, edible fats and their preparations and products
• Selected foodstuffs (e.g. coffee, flavors) for which limit values are specified in the Extraction Solvent Ordinance

Scope of investigation

• 1,1-dichloroethene
• 1,1,2-trichlorotrifluoroethane
• Dichloromethane
• 1,1-dichloroethane
• Chloroform
• 1,1,1-trichloroethane
• 1,2-dichloroethane
• Tetrachloromethane
• Trichloroethene
• Bromodichloromethane
• 1,1,2-trichloroethane
• Dibromochloromethane
• Tetrachloroethene
• Tribromomethane
• 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane
• Acetone
• Methyl acetate
• Ethyl methyl ketone
• Hexane
• Benzene
• Toluene
• Ethylbenzene
• m+p-xylene
• o-Xylene
• Styrene

Instrumental equipment

• Gas chromatography (GC) coupled to:
  • HS-Trap
  • MS/MS

Standard reference

• DIN EN ISO 16035, edition November 2005: Determination of low-boiling halogenated hydrocarbons in edible oils

Additional services

• Expert opinion and customer consulting

Contact

Institute Food Safety Linz lebensmittel.linz@ages.at Wieningerstraße 8 4020 Linz

Analyzable goods

• various foodstuffs such as chewing gum, spice mixtures, soups, oils and very fatty samples

Scope of analysis

• meat products, ready meals, soups, snacks and other "salty" foods

Instrumental equipment

• Amino acid analyzer

Contact

office_lms@ages.at Spargelfeldstraße 191 1220 Vienna

Analyzable goods

• Plant and animal foodstuffs, animal feed, planting and seed materials
• Fruit and vegetables (e.g. papaya, sugar beet, potato)
• Cereals and cereal products (e.g. corn, soy, rapeseed, rice, linseed)
• Leaf material

Scope of investigation

• Screening
  • GMO - Yes/No decision
• Identification
  • Identification of gv-lines (gv-events), 60 line-specific methods in use.
  • After positive screening result
• Quantification
  • Determination of the quantitative content of various gv-lines in a sample
  • After identification of the gv-line

Additional services

• Expert opinion and customer consulting
• Laboratory training GMO analytics

Contact

Institute Food Safety Vienna lebensmittel.wien@ages.at Spargelfeldstraße 191 1220 Vienna

Analyzable goods

• Foodstuffs in general

Scope of analysis

• Benzoic acid
• Sorbic acid
• Sulphite

Contact

Institute Food Safety Vienna lebensmittel.wien@ages.at Spargelfeldstraße 191 1220 Vienna

Analysable goods

Foodstuffs

• Infant food, complementary food
• Oils and fats
• Margarine and similar products
• Deep-frying fats
• Fine bakery products
• Bread and bakery products
• Tinned meat (smoked)
• Tinned fish (smoked)
• Potato or cereal-based snacks
• Other deep-fried potato products
• Soya sauce
• Hydrolysed vegetable protein
• Foods containing vegetable oils
• Foods prepared/manufactured with vegetable oils
• LM contact materials based on cardboard or paper

Scope of testing

• 2-Monochloropropanediol (2-MCDP)
• 3-monochloropropanediol (3-MCDP)
• 2-monochloropropanediol ester (2-MCDP-E)
• 3-monochloropropanediol ester (3-MCDP-E)
• Glycidyl ester (GE)
• 1,3-DCP and 2,3-DCP

Instrumental equipment

• Gas chromatography (GC) coupled to: MS/MS

Standard reference

• EN 14573:2004 Determination of 3-monochloropropane-1,2-diol with GC/MS
• AOCS Official Method Cd 29a-13 (2013): 2- and 3-MCPD Fatty Acid Esters and Glycidol Fatty Acid Esters in Edible Oils and Fats by Acidic Transesterification

Additional services

• Expertise and customer consulting

Contact us

Institute for Food Safety Linz
lebensmittel.linz@ages.at
Wieningerstraße 8
4020 Linz

Analyzable goods

• Foodstuffs (incl. food supplements)
• Cosmetics
• commodities
• environmental samples (swab samples, gully water, slicer abrasion...)

Scope of investigation

• conventional microbiology (ISO methods)
  • Aerobic mesophilic germs
  • Enterobacteriaceae
  • Coliform germs
  • Escherichia coli
  • Lactic acid bacteria
  • Pseudomonas spp.
  • Enterococci
  • Yeasts and molds
  • Anaerobic mesophilic germs
  • Bacillus cereus
  • Toxin detection Cereulid
  • Clostridium perfringens
  • Coagulase positive staphylococci
  • Salmonella
  • Campylobacter (detection & count)
  • Listeria monocytogenes (detection & enumeration)
  • Listeria sp. (Listeria innocua....)
  • Pathogenic Vibrions (V. cholerae, V. parahaemolyticus, V.vulnificus...)
  • Yersinia enterocolitica
  • Cronobacter sakazakii (infant formula)
  • Candida albicans (cosmetics)
  • Staphylococcus aureus (cosmetics)
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa (cosmetics)
  • Escherichia coli-MPN (live bivalves)
  • Beer spoilage bacteria
• real-time PCR
  • STEC (shigatoxin producing E.coli) - EN ISO 13136
  • EPEC (enteropathogenic E. coli)
  • EaggEc (enteroaggregative E. coli)
  • Noroviruses - ISO/DTS 15216
  • Hepatitis A viruses ISO/DTS 15216

Contact

Institute of Food Safety Vienna lebensmittel.wien@ages.at Spargelfeldstraße 191 1220 Vienna

Institute of Food Safety Linz lebensmittel.linz@ages.at Wieningerstraße 8 4020 Linz

Institute of Food Safety Innsbruck lebensmittel.innsbruck@ages.at Technikerstraße 70 6020 Innsbruck

Department of Food Microbiology Graz lebensmittel.graz@ages.at Beethovenstraße 6 A-8010 Graz

Scope of analysis

• Determination of the font size according to LMIV
• Identification of herbal ingredients (e.g. tea analyses, food supplements, differentiation from poisonous plants: rocket salad - greengage; wild garlic - lily of the valley, autumn crocus; millet - datura seeds, etc.)
• Identification of the ingredients of jams and marmalades, freshly squeezed juices, food supplements, etc.
• Impurities in animal and plant-based foodstuffs, beverages, consumer goods and cosmetics (e.g. ergot, weed seeds, pest infestation, animal faeces, webs, inorganic impurities - foreign bodies)
• Contamination of food with moulds, yeasts and bacteria
• Detection of thickening agents (e.g. soft drinks)
• Detection and identification of starch (e.g. gluten-free products)

• Pollen analysis of honey (screening)

Contact

Institute for Food Safety Vienna
lebensmittel.wien@ages.at
Spargelfeldstraße 191
1220 Vienna

Institute for Food Safety Innsbruck
lebensmittel.innsbruck@ages.at
Technikerstrasse 70
6020 Innsbruck

Analysable goods

• Foodstuffs
• Plant foods e.g.
  • Fruit / vegetables / dried fruit / nuts / oilseeds
  • Cereals and cereal products
  • Tea, coffee, cocoa
  • Spices
  • Drinks (e.g. fruit juices, concentrates, wine)
  • Vegetable oils
  • leaves
• Animal foods e.g.
  • Meat and meat products
  • Milk and dairy products
  • Fats / oils
• Animal feed of all kinds

Additional services

• Expertise and customer advice, including samples from organic production
• Sampling in accordance with Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2782 (mycotoxins)
• National reference laboratory for mycotoxins
• Laboratory training for the detection of mycotoxins in food and feed

Scope of analysis, instrumental equipment

For the determination of mycotoxins in raw cereals, feed and food, accredited special analysis methods are used in the KONA of AGES GmbH (table):

*Includes the following parameters: Deoxynivalenol (DON), nivalenol, 3-acetylDON, 15-acetylDON, DON-3-glucoside, fusarenone X, T-2 toxin, HT-2 toxin, monoacetoxyscirpenol, diacetoxyscirpenol, aflatoxins (B1, B2, G1, G2), zearalenone, ochratoxin A, fumonisin B1, sterigmatocystin,Alternariol and Alternariol methyl ether
IAS = Immunoaffinity column; SPE = solid phase extraction
PBPB = pyridinium bromide perbromide; OPA = orthophthaldialdehyde
HPLC = high performance liquid chromatography
FL = fluorescence detector; DAD = diode array detector
MS = mass spectrometry (MS-MS = dilute & shoot method using stable isotope dilution analysis and triple quadrupole tandem mass spectrometry)

Contact

Institute of Food Safety Linz
lebensmittel.linz@ages.at
Wieningerstraße 8
4020 Linz

Scope of examination

• Calorific value/energy (calculated)
• Fat
• Fatty acid spectrum (saturated fatty acids etc.)
• Protein
• Carbohydrates
• Starch
• Sugar
• Sugar alcohols
• Organic acids
• Alcohol
• Dietary fiber
• Water content
• Ash
• Sodium (salt)

Additional services

• Expert opinion and customer consulting
• Nutritional value calculation based on recipe and literature data

Fat content

Analyzable goods

• All food products
• Additives

Scope of analysis

• Total fat

Standard reference

DIN 10342, BVL L 02.00-11, BVL L 03.00-10, BVL L 17.00-4, BVL L 44.00-4, BVL L 06.00-6, BVL L 07.00-6, BVL L 08.00-6, BVL L 13.05-3, DGF K I-2A, AIIBP 2/9B

Notes

Special methods are available for certain product groups (e.g. meat products). Various analytical methods (reference methods, rapid methods) are available.

Protein content

Analyzable goods

• All food products
• Additives

Scope of analysis

• Protein
• Nitrogen

Standard reference

DIN 10454, BVL L 02.09-5, BVL L 05.00-15, BVL L 06.00-7, BVL L 07.00-7, BVL L 08.00-7, BVL L 13.05-6, BVL L 13.06-6

Notes

Different analytical methods (Kjeldahl, Dumas) are available.

Ash content

Analyzable goods

• Foodstuffs
• All foods
• Additives

Scope of analysis

• Ash
• Sand (hydrochloric acid insoluble)
• Sulphated ash

Standard reference

DIN EN 1135, BVL L 26.26-5, DIN 10755, DIN 10802, BVL L 17.00-3, BVL L 18.00-4, BVL L 16.01-2, BVL L 16.03-2, DIN EN ISO 2171, BVL L 06.00-4, BVL L 07.00-4, BVL L 08.00-4, BVL L 05.00-13, DIN 10744, BVL L 02.00-27, BVL L 03.00-30, DGF C-III 10, DIN 10223, DIN 10805, AIIBP 2-3, AIIBP 4-3, AIIBP 4-3a, ISO 5809, AIIBP 6-1

Notes

Different analytical methods (reference methods, rapid methods) are available.

Starch content

Analyzable goods

• all foodstuffs

Scope of analysis

• Starch

Standard reference

DIN EN ISO 10520, BVL L 17.00-5, BVL L 18.00-6, WL 46.1.0

Notes

Special methods are available for certain product groups (e.g. meat products)

Refractive index

Analyzable goods

• Foodstuffs (liquid or liquefiable)
• Additives (liquid)

Scope of analysis

• Refractive index
• Dry mass (refractometric)

Dry mass

Analyzable goods

• All foodstuffs

Scope of analysis

• Dry matter
• Water content
• Evaporation residue

Remarks

Various analytical methods (reference methods, rapid methods) are available.

Standard reference

• L 05.00-12 (Official collection of test methods according to §64 LFGB): Determination of dry matter in eggs and egg products.
• L 06.00-3 (Official collection of test methods according to §64 LFGB): Determination of dry matter in meat and meat products.
• L 07.00-3 (Official collection of test methods according to §64 LFGB): Determination of dry matter in meat products.
• L 08.00-3 (Official collection of test methods according to §64 LFGB): Determination of dry matter in sausage products.
• DGF Unit Methods K-I 1 or L 13.05-1 (Official Collection of Methods of Analysis according to §64 LFGB): Determination of the water content in margarine.
• L 13.06-1 (Amtliche Sammlung von Untersuchungsverfahren nach §64 LFGB): Determination of the water content in half-fat margarines.
• L 17.00-1 (Official collection of test methods according to §64 LFGB): Determination of the loss on drying in bread including cookies made from bread dough.
• L 18.00-12 (Official collection of test methods according to §64 LFGB): Determination of loss on drying in fine bakery products.
• L 20.01/02-3 (Amtliche Sammlung von Untersuchungsverfahren nach §64 LFGB): Determination of dry matter in mayonnaise and emulsified sauces.
• L 22.02/04-4 (Amtliche Sammlung von Untersuchungsverfahren nach §64 LFGB): Determination of dry matter content in dried pasta.
• L 22.02/04-5 (Official collection of test methods according to §64 LFGB): Determination of dry matter content in moist pasta.
• L 39.00-E(EC) and 1(EC) to 10(EC) (Amtliche Sammlung von Untersuchungsverfahren nach §64 LFGB): Analytical methods for the determination of the composition of some sugars intended for human consumption. Annex II, methods 1 and 2.
• L 44.00-3 (Amtliche Sammlung von Untersuchungsverfahren nach §64 LFGB): Determination of the dry matter content in solid chocolate.
• L 57.20.19-1(EG) ((Official collection of test methods according to §64 LFGB): Determination of loss of mass by drying of sodium nitrite (E250).
• ISO 2483 - 1973: Sodium Chloride for Industrial Use - Determination of the Loss of Mass at 110 °C.
• Österreichisches Lebensmittelbuch, IV. Auflage, Kapitel B 8 Vinegar; balsamic vinegars; salad seasonings, sour seasonings; vinegar essence; sauces, creams, vinegar-based preparations; other vinegar-like seasonings.
• AOAC Official Method 2008.06: Moisture and Fat in Meats (Microwave and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Analysis). AOAC International, Official Methods of Analysis, 19th Edition (2012) (39.1.39).
• AOAC Official Method 985.14: Loss on Drying (Moisture) in Meat and Poultry Products (Rapid Microwave Drying Method). AOAC International, Official Methods of Analysis, 19th Edition (2012) (39.1.03).

Total dietary fiber content

Analyzable commodities

• All foods

Scope of analysis

• Total dietary fiber

Note

The availability of at least 3 g of non-fat dry matter is required for this determination. All fatty and/or moist foods must be defatted and/or dried during processing.

Standard reference

• AOAC: Official Methods of Analysis, 16th Edition, Vol. II, Arlington 1995, Chapter 45.4.07, AOAC Official Method 985.29.
• Official collection of analytical methods according to § 35 LMBG: L 00.00-18: Determination of dietary fiber in foodstuffs

Fatty acid spectrum incl. trans fatty acids

Analyzable goods

• Fats and oils
• Isolated fat from food

Scope of analysis

• Fatty acid methyl esters
• Saturated fatty acids
• Monounsaturated fatty acids
• Polyunsaturated fatty acids
• Omega-3 fatty acids
• Omega-6 fatty acids
• Trans fatty acids

Standard reference

• EN ISO 12966-2 Animal and vegetable fats and oils - Gas chromatography of fatty acid methyl esters (Part 2: Preparation of fatty acid methyl esters)
• EN ISO 12966-4 Gas chromatography of fatty acid methyl esters (Part 4: Determination by capillary gas chromatographyAppraisal and customer advice

Instrumentation

• Gas chromatography (GC) coupled to: FID

Total carbohydrates

Analyzable commodities

• All foodstuffs

Scope of analysis

• Total carbohydrates

Instrumental equipment

High pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC), coupled to: RI detector

Note

After preparation of an extract, the oligosaccarides are degraded by enzymatic cleavage to monosaccarides. This is followed by the determination of sugars by HPLC measurement and a back-calculation to the total carbohydrate content.

Additional services

Expert opinion and customer consulting

Contact

Institute Food Safety Linz lebensmittel.linz@ages.at Wieningerstraße 8 4020 Linz

Analyzable goods

• Food
• Fiber hemp

Scope of analysis

• Coumarin
• Quinine
• safrole, methyl eugenol, estragole
• aloin
• phenolic substances: p-hydroxybenzoic acid, vanillic acid, p-hydroxybenzaldehyde, vanillin, ferulic acid, ethylvanillin
• Tetrahydrocannabinol
• Cannabidiol
• morphine*
• ethyl morphine*
• codeine*
• papaverine*
• noscapine*

Additional services

• Expert opinion and customer consulting
• Execution of sampling according to EU VO 401/2006 (agricultural contaminants)

Contact

Institute Food Safety Vienna lebensmittel.wien@ages.at Spargelfeldstraße 191 1220 Vienna

Institute for Food Safety Linz lebensmittel.linz@ages.at Wieningerstraße 8 4020 Linz

Analyzable goods

Food

• Vegetable foodstuffs e.g.
• Vegetables (e.g. salads, arugula, carrots, spinach)
• Cereal-based baby foods and other baby foods for infants and young children
• Vegetable juices, fruit juices

Instrumental equipment

• Liquid chromatography (HPLC) coupled to: MWD/DAD (UV)

Additional services

• Expert opinion and customer consulting

Contact

Institute Food Safety Innsbruck lebensmittel.innsbruck@ages.at Technikerstraße 70 6020 Innsbruck

Analyzable goods

• Food
• Feed

Scope of analysis

• Malic acid
• Lactic acid
• Acetic acid
• Citric acid
• Succinic acid
• Propionic acid
• Oxalic acid
• Formic acid
• 3-hydroxybutyric acid in eggs

Contact

Institute Food Safety Vienna lebensmittel.wien@ages.at Spargelfeldstraße 191 1220 Vienna

Analysable goods

• Plant foods e.g.
  • Fruit & vegetables / dried fruit / nuts / oilseeds
  • Cereals and cereal products
  • Tea, coffee, cocoa, sugar
  • Spices
  • Drinks (e.g. fruit juices, concentrates, wine)
  • Vegetable oils
  • Vegetable leaves
• Animal foods e.g.
  • Meat and meat products
  • Fish and fish products
  • Milk and dairy products
  • eggs
  • honey
  • Fats / Oils
• Feed (feed materials, compound feed, feed oils) - QS FM monitoring test parameters

Additional services

• Expertise and customer advice, including samples from organic production
• National reference laboratory for pesticide residues
• Training programme: Laboratory training

Pesticide multi-method plant protection products

Depending on the food or animal feed, analysis using the multi-method for up to 550 active substances (LC-MS/MS and GC-MS/MS)

Analysis using single and multi-component methods

• Glyphosate / AMPA, glufosinate / N-acetyl glufosinate
• Chlorate, perchlorate
• Maleic hydrazide
• ethephon
• Fosetyl, phosphonic acid
• bromide
• Dithiocarbamates
• Quaternary ammonium compounds
• (benzyldimethyldecylammonium chloride (BAC-10), benzyldimethyldodecylammonium chloride (BAC-12), benzyldimethylhexadecylammonium chloride (BAC-16), benzyldimethyltetradecylammonium chloride (BAC-14), didecyldimethylammonium chloride (DDAC-10))

Instrumental equipment

• Gas chromatography (GC) with different injection techniques coupled to: MS/MS, TOF, ECD, MSD
• Liquid chromatography (UPLC) coupled to: MS/MS
• Sample preparation with dry ice or liquid nitrogen

Further information

European Commission - EU reference laboratories for pesticide residues

Public List of Testing (PLT) according to the Accreditation Austria Guideline "Scope of Accreditation of Conformity Assessment Bodies" in conjunction with the supplement to the accreditation notification can be found at the following link: https://www.bmaw.gv.at/Services/Akkreditierung/AkkreditiertePIZ-Stellen.html

Contact

Institute for Food Safety Innsbruck
lebensmittel.innsbruck@ages.at
Technikerstraße 70
6020 Innsbruck

Analyzable goods

• Plant-based foodstuffs e.g.
  • Fruit / Vegetables / Dried fruit / Nuts / Oilseeds
  • Cereals and cereal products
  • Tea, coffee, cocoa
  • Herbs
  • Beverages (e.g. fruit juices, concentrates, wine)
  • Vegetable oils
  • Leaves, plants
• Animal food e.g.
  • Meat and meat products
  • Fish and fish products
  • Milk and milk products
  • Fats / Oils
• Consumer goods e.g.
  • Toys
• Feed of all kinds
• Soil
• Fertilizers, composts

Additional services

• Assessment and customer consulting, including samples from ecological / organic production
• National reference laboratory for PAH
• Laboratory training - on request
• Execution of sampling according to EU VO 333/2007 (process contaminants)

Scope of investigation, instrumental equipment

For the determination of PAH in food, feed, soil etc. accredited special analytical methods are used in KONA of AGES GmbH:

GPC = gel permeation chromatography SPE = solid phase extraction HPLC = high performance liquid chromatography FL/PDA: fluorescence detector or photodiode array ASE = accelerated solvent extraction

Contact

Institute of Food Safety Linz lebensmittel.linz@ages.at Wieningerstraße 8 4020 Linz

Analyzable goods

• Food
• Vegetable food e.g.
  • Coffee and coffee substitutes,
  • tea and tea-like products,
  • beverages containing caffeine,
  • Cocoa products (chocolate, cocoa drinks, cakes, ...)
• food supplements (e.g. sexual enhancers, energy/tonic capsules)

Scope of investigation

• Caffeine
• Theophylline
• Theobromine

Instrumental equipment

• Liquid chromatography (HPLC) coupled to: MWD/DAD (UV)

Additional services

• Expert opinion and customer consulting

Contact

Institute Food Safety Innsbruck lebensmittel.innsbruck@ages.at Technikerstraße 70 6020 Innsbruck

Analyzable goods

• Vegetable food
  • Herbal teas
• Animal food
  • Honey

Scope of analysis

• Pyrrolizidine alkaloids

Additional services

• Customer advisory service

Contact

Institute Food Safety Vienna lebensmittel.wien@ages.at Spargelfeldstraße 191 1220 Vienna

Analyzable goods

• all foodstuffs
• Toys
• Cosmetics

Scope of analysis

• Odor
• Taste
• Odor after cooking test (preparation)
• Taste after cooking test (preparation)
• Consistency
• Appearance, color
• If necessary, abnormalities, defects

Additional services

• Commissioned sensory testing

Contact

Institute Food Safety Vienna lebensmittel.wien@ages.at Spargelfeldstraße 191 1220 Vienna

Quaternary ammonium compounds

Analyzable goods

• Animal food
  • Milk
  • Cheese
  • Ice cream
  • Eggs
  • Meat products
  • Baby food
• Food supplements

Scope of testing

• Benzalkonium chloride
• Other quaternary ammonium compounds

Melamine & cyanuric acid

Analyzable goods

• Food
• Food contact materials
• Kitchen utensils
• Feed

Scope of analysis

• Melamine
• Cyanuric acid

Diisopropylnaphthalene

Analyzable goods

• Plant food
  • Cereals
  • Cereal products (pasta,...)
  • Cocoa
• Food contact materials
  • Packaging

Scope of analysis

• 2,6-Diisopropylnaphthalene

Bisphenols and their glydidyl esters

Analyzable goods

• Food
  • Beverages
  • Canned food
• Food contact materials

Scope of analysis

• Bisphenols
• BADGE
• BFDGE

4-methylimidazole

Analyzable goods

• Food
  • Beverages
  • Food additives
• Scope of examination
  • 4-methylimidazole

Benzene

Analyzable goods

• Food
  • Beverages

Scope of analysis

• Benzene

Furan

Analyzable goods

• Food

Scope of analysis

• Furan

Acrylamide

Analyzable goods

• Food

Scope of analysis

• Acrylamide

Primary aromatic amines

Analyzable goods

• Food contact materials
  • Kitchen utensils
  • Napkins

Scope of analysis

• Primary aromatic amines

Dioxane

Analyzable goods

• Cosmetics

Scope of analysis

• Dioxane

N-nitrosodiethanolamine (NDELA)

Analyzable goods

• Cosmetics

Scope of analysis

• N-Nitrosodiethanolamine (NDELA)

Contact

Institute Food Safety Vienna lebensmittel.wien@ages.at Spargelfeldstraße 191 1220 Vienna

Analysable goods

• Foodstuffs e.g.
  • Tea, coffee, cocoa
  • Beverages (e.g. fruit juices, concentrates, beer)
  • honey
  • Table sweeteners

Additional services

• Expertise and customer advice

Scope of testing

• Sweeteners in foods
• Steviol glycosides in sweeteners
• Sugar and sugar alcohols

Instrumental equipment

• LC-MS/MS
• HPLC

Contact

Institute Food Safety Linz
lebensmittel.linz@ages.at
Wieningerstraße 8
4020 Linz

Analyzable matrices

• Food of animal origin
  • Meat and other animal tissues
  • Fish and other aquaculture products
  • Milk and milk products
  • Eggs
  • Honey
• Samples from animal live stock
  • Urine
  • Blood
• Feed

Scope of investigation

• Hormones and prohibited veterinary drugs
  • Stilbenes, stilbene derivatives
  • Thyrostatic agents
  • Steroids
  • resorcylic acid lactones including zeranol
  • beta-agonists
  • prohibited substances according to Annex Table 2 of Regulation (EU) 37/2010: chloramphenicol, chlorpromazine, dapsone, nitrofurans, nitroimidazoles
  • carbadox and olaquindox
• Authorized veterinary drugs
  • Antibiotics (aminoglycosides, ß-lactams, quinolones, macrolides, sulfonamides and tetracyclines)
  • Antiparasitics (avermectins, benzimidazoles, levamisole, rafoxanide and others)
  • Coccidiostats, including nitroimidazoles
  • Tranquilizers
  • Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID)
  • Corticosteroids

Additional services

• National reference laboratory for veterinary drugs and hormones
• Customer advisory service
• AGES laboratory training for detection of veterinary drugs and hormones in food of animal origin

CNS material: glial fiber protein

Analyzable matrices

• Head meat of cattle

Scope of analysis

• Glial fiber protein

Additional services

• Customer consulting

Contact

Institute Food Safety Vienna lebensmittel.wien@ages.at Spargelfeldstraße 191 1220 Vienna

Analyzable goods

• Vegetable food e.g.
  • Cereals and cereal products (e.g. millet, buckwheat, corn, baking mixes)
  • Baby food, complementary food
  • Herbs
  • Tea (herbal tea)
  • Food supplements (capsules, compresses...)

Scope of investigation

• Atropine
• Scopolamine

Instrumental equipment

• Liquid chromatography (UPLC) coupled to: MS/MS

Additional services

• Expert opinion and customer consulting

Contact

Institute Food Safety Innsbruck lebensmittel.innsbruck@ages.at Technikerstraße 70 6020 Innsbruck

Fat soluble vitamins

Analyzable goods

• Vegetable food
• Animal food
• Feed

Fat-soluble vitamins:

• Vitamin A
• ß-Carotene
• Vitamin D2
• Vitamin D3
• Vitamin E

Instrumental equipment

• HPLC (UV or fluorescence detection)

Water-soluble vitaminsH4: Analyzable goods

• Food
• Feed

Water-soluble vitamins:

• C (ascorbic acid)
• B1 (thiamine)
• B2 (riboflavin)
• Niacin
• B6 (pyridoxine)
• B12 (cyanocobalamin)
• Folic acid

Contact

Institute Food Safety Vienna lebensmittel.wien@ages.at Spargelfeldstraße 191 1220 Vienna

Analyzable goods

• Food
• Vegetable food e.g.
  • Oils, fats
  • Sugo, pesto etc.
  • Canned food
  • Infant food, baby food
• Food contact materials
  • Seals
  • Packaging
  • Tubes
• Cosmetics

Scope of testing

• Phthalates
• Epoxidized soybean oil
• Plasticizer multi-method

Additional services

• Customer consulting

Contact

Institute Food Safety Vienna lebensmittel.wien@ages.at Spargelfeldstraße 191 1220 Vienna