Quality & laboratory
No lot leaves without measured numbers
Our partner testing laboratories run viability, nutritional and microbiological testing on every production lot, issuing a certificate of analysis that travels with your shipment.
Certifications
Documentation your import authority expects
Testing methods follow recognised international standards so results are accepted at the border and in your own QA system.
- • Certificate of analysis per export lot, referencing your shipment number.
- • Phytosanitary and veterinary certificates prepared for your port of entry.
- • Retained samples archived for independent re-verification.
- • Technical support for hatch-rate troubleshooting after delivery.
Test panel
What we measure, and how
The full analytical panel applied to each production lot before release.
| Parameter | Method | Specification |
|---|---|---|
| Hatching rate (24 h) | Weiss cone incubation, triplicate count | ≥ 90% — Grade A+ ≥ 95% |
| Nauplii per gram (NPG) | Sedgewick-Rafter counting chamber, 1000× optics | 260,000 – 300,000+ |
| Purity | Brine flotation and sieve residue analysis | ≥ 99.5% |
| Moisture | Gravimetric moisture analyser (±0.01 g) | ≤ 6.0 – 7.5% |
| Crude protein | Kjeldahl nitrogen conversion | ≥ 56.0% |
| Crude lipids / HUFA | Solvent extraction, fatty-acid spectrometry | ≥ 14.5%, EPA 20:5n-3 rich |
| Salmonella spp. | ISO 6579 | Negative / 25 g |
| Escherichia coli | ISO 16649 | Negative / g |
| Total microbial count | Plate count agar, 30 °C | < 10⁴ CFU/g |
Instrumentation
Laboratory capability
Equipment dedicated to Artemia viability and nutrition, operated by specialized quality teams.
Climate-controlled hatching cones
Weiss-type conical incubators with titanium heating and calibrated aeration for reproducible 24-hour hatch trials on every batch.
1000× digital counting microscopy
Sedgewick-Rafter and Bürker chambers with digital imaging for nauplii-per-gram counts and unhatched-cyst differentiation.
Precision moisture analysers
±0.01 g gravimetric balances verifying residual moisture after low-temperature drying, before packaging is released.
Fatty-acid spectrometry
Lipid profiling for HUFA and EPA 20:5n-3 content, so nutritional claims on every certificate of analysis are measured, not estimated.
Microbiological suite
ISO 6579 Salmonella and ISO 16649 E. coli protocols plus total microbial count, with retained samples for every export lot.
Retained batch library
Every production lot keeps sealed retention samples for re-testing, dispute resolution, and customer re-verification.