Delivering fast, accurate food testing and expert support to help you ensure safety, compliance, and brand integrity.
Delivering fast, accurate results and expert support to help you ensure food safety, meet regulatory requirements, and maintain brand integrity.
Our Microbiological Food Testing and Analysis service delivers reliable, high-quality results that help client partners ensure food safety, comply with regulatory standards, and protect their brand reputation. Leveraging state-of-the-art technology and rigorous methodologies, our accredited laboratories provide comprehensive food production 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 provide both qualitative and quantitative analysis, along with technical support and remedial advice tailored to client needs. This expertise extends across various sectors, including food production quality testing, retail, and hospitality, with essential tests for Listeria, Salmonella, and E. coli among our offerings.
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 food 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 food production quality testing service is fully customisable to meet specific client requirements, offering the flexibility to scale as needed for routine monitoring, outbreak response, or product development. This tailored approach ensures that our client partners can swiftly address challenges, optimise resources, and achieve their goals with precision and accuracy.
CLS’s Microbiological Food Safety Programme for a deli, food preparation facility, or dark kitchen specialising in ready-to-eat (RTE) foods is customised to the specific processes, environment, and products handled at the site. This bespoke approach ensures compliance with Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) and addresses the unique microbiological risks posed by the nature of the operation.
CLS understands the critical importance of food safety and compliance in the Irish food industry. Our accredited (ISO9001) Food Safety Programmes (FSP) help food 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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