Cawthron Institute is well known
for its work in supporting the
aquaculture industry, but many
are unaware that its leading-edge
expertise in analytical research
and development, and food safety
product testing is applied to other
industries as well.
Dairy processing company Synlait
has used this capability to provide
product development support and
specialised finished product testing
for approximately 10 years.
Recently, Cawthron scientists
extended their work with Synlait
on a special project with Synlait’s
chemistry team to assist with setting
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up and validating complex in-house
testing capability to meet IANZ
ISO17025 standards.
The Cawthron scientists were able
to come on site and work alongside
Synlait staff, and the Cawthron
team’s level of technical expertise
impressed Synlait’s lab manager
Purnima Devi.
“Cawthron was very responsive and
has done a fantastic job helping
us to validate our LC-MS (liquid
chromatography-mass spectrometry)
methods for a number of small
molecule metabolites that are difficult
to measure in milk,” Devi says. “The
Cawthron team did it all in a period
of three months.”
These tests are important for the
quality control of the high value
nutritional products that Synlait
produces for export.
Having the ability to do the majority
of the company’s product release
testing in-house will have a real
impact for Synlait in terms of its
ability to quickly provide high-value
finished product to customers in a
marketplace that requires speed and
responsiveness.
In addition, Cawthron continues to
provide a valuable contract testing
service to ensure Synlait’s products
meet market access requirements.
“I’m very impressed by the way
Cawthron delivers,” Devi says.
“We’ve been working with them for
a long time now and it feels good
to know that they have got the
expertise to do the job.”
For Synlait, there is huge value in
the fact that the service they require
is available within New Zealand and
that they don’t have to go offshore to
meet their testing requirements and
access technical expertise.
“Cawthron can handle the volume
of testing we need and the technical
support it can provide through its
Analytical R&D team is impressive,”
Devi says.
SYNLAIT IMPRESSED WITH CAWTHRON
LEADING EDGE EXPERTISE
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