lab
Our world-class laboratory specializes in analyzing all types of olive oils and olive pomace oils. Owning the latest equipment technology, our laboratory enables the classification of the different types of olive oils. It also enables us to carefully test and select the quality of our oils at every step of the production process.
Tests include:
SENSORY ANALYSES
Conducted by our certified Panel
BASIC PHYSICO-CHEMICAL TESTING
• Free acidity (% m/m expressed in oleic acid)
• Peroxide value (milleq. peroxide oxygen per kg/oil)
• K268/270
• K232
• ΔK
• Moisture and volatile matter (% m/m)
• Insoluble impurities in light petroleum (% m/m)
ADVANCED PHYSICO-CHEMICAL TESTING
• Fatty acids (% methyl esters)
• Trans fatty acids (% trans fatty acids)
• Sterols (%)
• Total sterols (mg/kg)
• Erythrodiol+uvaol (% total sterols)
• Aliphatic alcohols (mg/kg)
• Biophenols (mg/kg)
• Tocopherols (%)
• α-tocopherols (%) (mg/kg)
• Enhancing the coherence of triglycerides with fatty acides
• Waxes (mg/kg)
• Ethyl esters (mg/kg)
• ΔECN42
• Stigmastadienes (mg/kg)
• 2-glyceryl monopalmitate (%)
• Unsaponifiable matter
RESIDUES AND CONTAMINANTS TESTING
. Halogenated solvents (mg/kg)
. Benzo(a)pyrene, Benzo(a)anthracene, Benzo(b)fluoranthene, Chrysene
(μg/kg)
. Phthalates
. Pesticide residues (mg/kg or μg/kg)