Microbiology Testing
Venture Laboratories offers a COMPLETE microbiology service laboratory for the food and dietary supplement industry. Food quality is a concern for everyone and Venture Labs provides accurate, precise and timely testing to service the food industry. Time is money and we are fully aware of this critical detail. Venture Laboratories will coordinate with you to find the best option for testing your product. Our attention to detail and validated rapid methods explain why many major national producers trust their pathogen testing to Venture Laboratories.
We also have extensive experience in dietary supplement testing for microbiological quality including testing probiotics.
Venture Labs offers standard testing packages as well as individual assays including pathogen and microbial load of foods, nutraceutical preparations, animal feed, nonpotable water or the microbial ecology of anaerobic environments.
Microbiology Testing
Venture Laboratories offers a COMPLETE microbiology service laboratory for the food and dietary supplement industry. Food quality is a concern for everyone and Venture Labs provides accurate, precise and timely testing to service the food industry. Time is money and we are fully aware of this critical detail. Venture Laboratories will coordinate with you to find the best option for testing your product. Our attention to detail and validated rapid methods explain why many major national producers trust their pathogen testing to Venture Laboratories.
We also have extensive experience in dietary supplement testing for microbiological quality including testing probiotics.
Venture Labs offers standard testing packages as well as individual assays including pathogen and microbial load of foods, nutraceutical preparations, animal feed, nonpotable water or the microbial ecology of anaerobic environments.
Venture Labs Assay Services Provided:
Enumerations
- Bacillus coagulans (FCC Method)
- Bacillus subtilis (Compendium of Methods for the Microbiological Examination of Foods)
- Bifidobacteria (Various Methods)
- Campylobacter sp. (Various Methods)
- Candida albicans (FDA/BAM)
- Clostridium perfringens (FDA/BAM)
- Clostridium sp. (USP)
- Coliforms and E. coli (FDA/BAM and USP)
- Enterobacteria (USP)
- Enterococci (Compendium of Methods for the Microbiological Examination of Foods)
- Pseudomonas species (USP and FDA/BAM)
- Spore Forming Bacteria – Aerobic and Anaerobic – (Compendium of Methods for the Microbiological Examination of Foods)
- Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase Positive Staph (FDA/BAM and USP)
- Streptococci (various methods)
- Total Aerobic Bacteria (FDA/BAM and USP)
- Total Anaerobic Bacteria (Anaerobic Bacteriology Manual or Compendium of Methods in Foods)
- Total Lactic Acid Bacteria (Compendium of Methods, LAB in Foods)
- Actinomycetes (Standard Methods)
- Yeasts and molds (USP and FDA/BAM)
- USP 2021 and 2022 Microbiology Tests (USP)
Pathogen and Toxin Testing
- Bacillus diarrhoeal enterotoxin
- Bacillus cereus
- Campylobacter sp.
- Clostridium species
- Clostridium perfringens
- E. coli O157:H7
- Listeria sp.
- Listeria monocytogenes
- Pseudomonas sp.
- Salmonella sp.
- Shiga Toxigenic E. coli (STEC)
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Staphylococcal enterotoxins
- Aerobic Spore Forming Bacteria
- Anaerobic Spore forming bacteria
Probiotic Analysis
Various Methods – Please Inquire
- Bacillus coagulans (FCC Method)
- Bacillus subtilis (Compendium of Methods for the Microbiological Examination of Foods)
- Total Bacillus sp. (aerobic mesophilic sporeformers)
- Total Bifidobacteria
- Total Enterococci
- Total Lactic acid bacteria
- Total Lactobacilli
- Total Saccharomyces boulardii
- Total Streptococci
- Total Yeast
- Microbe Identification
MPN counts
- Ammonium oxidizing bacteria (MPN Methods of Soil Analysis)
- Nitrosomonas and Nitrobacter (MPN Methods of Soil Analysis)
Isolation/Identification
- Bacillus (FDA/BAM)
- Clostridium perfringens (FDA/BAM)
- Enterococci (Compendium of Methods in Foods)
- E. coli O157:H7 (FDA/BAM)
- Lactobacilli (J. Bacteriol.)
- Lactobacillus (Compendium of Methods in Foods)
- Listeria monocytogenes (FDA/BAM)
- Salmonella (FDA/BAM and USP)
- Staphylococcus aureus (FDA/BAM and USP)
- Yeasts (FDA/BAM and USP)
- Molds (FDA/BAM USP)
- Mycotoxin Testing (AOAC, ELISA, TLC, HPLC)
Don’t see what you need?
We offer many other assay options or will assist you with method development appropriate to your application.
