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LabSPACE Africa LabSPACE Africa, a private company, provides facilities for international and local researchers in South Africa. Facilities for use comprise research space as well as space to store samples for the long-term, as well as space in our climatic units to conduct stability tests. Our aim is to cut down on equipment costs, lab overheads, and operational costs to ensure that research is conducted more efficiently and more cost-effectively.

LabSPACE offers its own analytical chemical services. It provides laboratories as well as office space, and access to all of our general and analytical equipment to generate samples and reports.

We aim to create LabSPACE Africa facilities throughout South Africa, giving our clients and us a significant advantage in many research fields.

LabSPACE is available to clients who want to partner or rent space in a laboratory. It provides competitive rates to allow them to operate their own labs at a fraction of cost of a traditional laboratory.

Compliant services consist of the provision of laboratory spaces in activities that concern safety and compliance with local regulations, and the management of biological or chemical waste.

We can assist you with setting your space and we'll even provide space in our facility.

Mass spectrometer

Mass spectrometry

Frequently Asked Questions

Mycotoxins, which are toxic substances made by mold or fungi, can be poisonous. They can be harmful to humans if they are consumed, absorbed into skin, or inhaled. Even a small amount of mycotoxin could cause serious health problems for animals or humans, and even death. Mycotoxicosis is the result of mycotoxins poisoning. This condition is likely familiar to you if your coffee contains moldy coffee.

Intoxication can result from mycotoxin contamination in cereals and other feed products, particularly in farm animals. Effective analytical tools are needed to analyze the feed for toxic fungal metabolites. The current methods include an extraction step, a clean up step to remove unwanted co-extracted matrix elements and a separation step that allows for precise detection. For most mycotoxins, quantitative methods of analysis use immunoaffinity clean up with high-performance liquidchromatography (HPLC), separation in combination with ultraviolet and/or fluorescence detection.

Food, animal feed and food additives ingredients can be tested for melamine.

Melamine screening, analysis and evaluation of food-related products:
For food, agricultural products, raw materials, and ingredients, melamine testing can be done. Intertek laboratories offer cost-effective and quick testing. The melamine testing labs can quickly receive samples.

Intertek offers melamine analysis and detection services to food and agricultural companies, retailers, importers, food manufacturers, and food processors. Laboratory analysis of processed foods, animal food, wheat gluten, rice protein concentrate, and corn gluten is what melamine testing entails. The Intertek laboratories offer the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), recommended analytical methods for melamine screening, testing and quantitative analysis using Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry(GC-MS).

Melamine analysis, detection capabilities:

  • Checking food ingredients for melamine
  • Quantifications of the levels of melamine in tainted foodstuffs and ingredients
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