Delivering fast, accurate beverage testing and expert support to help you ensure safety, compliance, and brand integrity.
Delivering fast, accurate results and expert support to help you ensure beverage safety, meet regulatory requirements, and maintain brand integrity.
Our Beverage Testing and Analysis service delivers reliable, high-quality results that help client partners ensure beverage safety, comply with regulatory standards, and protect their brand reputation. Leveraging state-of-the-art technology and rigorous methodologies, our accredited laboratories provide comprehensive beverage quality testing solutions, including rapid results for food pathogens, spoilage organism identification, and shelf-life studies.
Our dedicated team of highly qualified sampling technicians and experienced microbiologists deliver comprehensive Beverage Testing services, including both qualitative and quantitative analysis. We provide expert technical support and practical remedial advice tailored to each client’s production process.
Our expertise supports a wide range of beverage sectors, including soft drinks, bottled water, brewing, and hospitality. We carry out microbiological testing for key pathogens such as Listeria, Salmonella, and E. coli where relevant, alongside the most common beverage-specific analyses including yeast and mould enumeration, total viable counts, and water quality testing.
We also provide shelf-life and stability testing to help ensure product consistency, safety, and compliance with industry standards.
CLS provides accredited Food Safety Programmes (FSP) tailored to the Irish food industry, ensuring compliance with I.S. 340, HACCP, and EU regulations.
Confidence in beverage testing methods, processes, and environments.
Personal hygiene (hand swabs)
Surface swab testing
Raw material testing
Water/Ice testing
Air hygiene testing
Detergent efficacy testing
CLS has an extensive range of testing and sampling of waters including all qualitative and quantitative analysis including:
TVCs
Coliforms
E. Coli
Enterococci
Cryptosporidium
Legionella
Our Beverage Testing services are fully customisable to meet specific client requirements, offering the flexibility to scale for routine monitoring, contamination response, or new product development. This tailored approach enables beverage producers to quickly address quality or safety issues, optimise production processes, and maintain consistent product standards with confidence.
CLS’s Microbiological Food Safety Programme is designed for operations such as soft drink manufacturing, bottled water production, breweries, and beverage preparation environments. Each programme is adapted to the specific processes, ingredients, and production conditions at the site, ensuring full alignment with Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) principles.
Our bespoke approach addresses the microbiological risks relevant to beverages, including contamination from water sources, raw ingredients, and production environments, helping ensure product safety, shelf-life stability, and regulatory compliance.
CLS understands the critical importance of beverage safety and compliance in the Irish food industry. Our accredited (ISO9001) Food Safety Programmes (FSP) help food & beverage businesses, caterers, and processors strengthen hygiene practices and ensure their safety systems are working effectively.
Our FSPs are designed to support compliance with I.S. 340 standards (Hygiene in the Catering Sector), verify adherence to HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) plans and ensure alignment with Regulation (EU) 2024/2895 on Microbiological Criteria for foodstuffs and the monitoring of waters and ice when applicable to drinking water standards EU (Drinking Water) Regulations 2023.
Through tailored sampling, surface swabbing, and hygiene checks, our trained technicians provide the tailored on-site sampling and the laboratory provides the reliable data that guides informed decisions and corrective actions.
Designed to adapt to seasonal demand, supplier changes, and evolving risks, our Food Safety Programmes minimise the chance of recalls, non-conformance, or downtime. With over 30 years of expertise, CLS delivers stronger audit readiness, faster response times, and greater confidence in food safety outcomes for your food business.
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