Food Testing Lab in Bangalore | NABL Accredited

NABL accreditation under ISO/IEC 17025:2017 assesses a laboratory’s competence for specific tests, and the certificate lists exactly which tests are covered. Auriga Research’s Bangalore lab holds NABL certificate NABLT0726KA18518, whose food scope covers about 496 chemical parameters across six categories.

Those categories are pesticide residues (250+ parameters by GC-MS/MS and LC-MS/MS), heavy metals by ICP-MS and ICP-OES, nutritional analysis, mycotoxins, aflatoxin and PAHs, microbiological testing (22 parameters) and adulteration screening for milk, edible oils, honey, spices and packaged food.

When comparing NABL accredited labs in Bangalore, check that the specific test you need appears in the lab’s scope, not just that the lab is accredited. The Bangalore lab also holds APEDA and Agmark recognition for export documentation, and is WHO Prequalified and US FDA inspected, so reports are accepted by international buyers and overseas regulators.

Government food testing laboratories analyse samples drawn by food safety officers and referred by authorities under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006. They exist to support enforcement, so a business generally does not use them to produce its own compliance reports.

A food business that needs a report in its own name for FSSAI licensing, product approval, labelling or export normally orders it from an NABL-accredited, FSSAI-recognised private laboratory. The Bangalore lab is FSSAI approved, and its reports are accepted for licensing, product approval and ongoing compliance under the FSS Act 2006.

Referral and dispute samples go to FSSAI referral laboratories such as the National Food Laboratory in Ghaziabad, which the Arbro Group operates under a public-private partnership. For routine testing from Bengaluru, samples can be dropped directly at Yeshwanthpur.