Lindel Labs opens food testing facility

Lindel Industrial Laboratories Ltd (Lindel Labs), the wholly owned subsidiary of Lanka Industrial Estates Ltd, (Lindel) recently opened a modern microbiological and food testing laboratory at its Sapugaskanda site.

The facility will enable the laboratory to expand its portfolio of services to include the testing of a range of food products such as tea, spices and desiccated coconut for the local and export markets.

Lindel Labs was set up in 1997 to monitor the quality of the potable water supply and the quality of effluents discharged by factories in the Industrial Estate of Lindel. Building on a reputation for service excellence, the laboratory soon gained accreditation from the Sri Lanka Accreditation Board for Conformity Assessment (SLAB) for a range of testing services.

These include analysis of potable water, effluents, emissions, solid waste, fuel, oils, fertiliser, soil and metal alloys. Lindel Labs was the first chemical testing laboratory in the country to obtain accreditation under ISO 17025 and is the only private laboratory in Sri Lanka that carries out testing for petroleum fuels and lubricant oils.

The laboratory has expanded its clientele base to include several leading companies in a diversity of industrial activities.