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ALT, based in Newbridge, Co. Kildare is pleased to announce the opening of new accredited laboratory facilities in Naas, Co. Kildare. ALT has recently completed the construction of a world class laboratory facilities in M7 Business Park, Naas, Co. Kildare. These new facilities have allowed ALT to transfer its Nutritional Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry and Veterinary testing divisions to Naas and also, significantly increase the capacity of these divisions. This strategic move also frees up laboratory space in its existing site in Newbridge Co. Kildare. This move will allow for further significant expansion of its Microbiology testing division which will now operate exclusively from Newbridge and become a dedicated Microbiology center of excellence to further enhance the level of services that ALT can provide to its customer network on the island of Ireland.

Billy Coleman, Managing Director of ALT said today “These are exciting times in ALT and we are delighted to open a second testing facility to meet our business plan objectives. This bold move allows us to substantially increase capacity across all our testing divisions and also allows us to bring more and more accredited testing services to the commercial market place. By transforming our testing site in Newbridge into a dedicated Microbiology center of excellence, it allows us to bring our level of service to a new level and implement new ideas in this area which we will announce soon. This move also allows us to continue expanding capacity throughout all our divisions as we continually strive to improve our service level offerings”.

ALT, based in Newbridge, Co. Kildare is pleased to announce new accreditations in Nutritional Chemistry. These new testing services are a first on the island of Ireland and will be considerable assistance to customers in terms of service level improvement and reduced turnaround times

The new Nutritional accreditations include the following matrices:

– Soups, Broths and Sauces
– Fish, Shellfish and Molluscs
– Fruit and Vegetables
– Pet Foods

Billy Coleman of ALT said today ‘These new testing services further strengthen the range of nutritional testing services that can now be offered on the island of Ireland for the first time and reaffirm ALT’s commitment to continually rolling out new and improved testing services to our customer base. These are exciting times in ALT and we hope to announce significant further infrastructural developments very soon’.

ALT is pleased to announce new accreditations in Microbiology and Nutritional Chemistry. The new Microbiology accreditations include additional Salmonella and Listeria service offerings. The new Nutritional accreditations include Meat Content and Added Water which is a first for these testing services on the island of Ireland

Billy Coleman of ALT said today “These new and exciting developments reaffirm ALT’s commitment to continually rolling out new and improved testing services to our customer base. I would like to offer a special word of thanks to our exceptional team of technical experts in all our laboratory divisions for their continued efforts to bring more and more testing services in house and I hope to announce further developments in this area in the coming weeks.”

ALT, based in Newbridge, Co. Kildare is Ireland’s fastest growing laboratory currently offering accredited Microbiology, Environmental Chemistry, Food Chemistry and Veterinary testing services. A wholly Irish owned company, ALT is pleased to announce that as part of its continuing commitment to offer market leading services to the Irish Food Industry, it has recently secured new accreditations to offer rapid 24hr testing for Salmonella, Listeria and STEC using the latest PCR technologies. ALT is at present the only commercial laboratory in Ireland offering these accredited PCR based rapid testing solutions.

Mr. Billy Coleman, Managing Director of ALT said today “This is a major development with regard to the level of services that can be offered to the Irish Food Sector. It allows customers to have access to key results for their products within 24 hrs which will enable them to reduce positive release times and thus assist in getting their products swiftly to market. The STEC accreditations in particular will assist the Irish Beef industry in its continuing efforts to penetrate the US markets by providing some of the key service infrastructure required in this area. We also see these new accreditations of being particular relevance to the Artisan food sector in terms of significantly reducing their waiting times for key results. These new accreditations reaffirms ALT’s commitment to continually improving its service offering and we hope to announce additional new testing services shortly to further expand our range of services’.

To read about the official opening click on Press Release

It is a wholly owned IRISH company, with a strong commitment to Quality Management Systems and development of high standards of service to its customers.

The company offers a professional partnership to all customers, providing tailor-made cost effective solutions which are technically valid and coupled with a high quality and exceptional customer service.

We are delighted to announce Full Group 2 Nutritional Analysis is now being tested.

ALT are the first laboratory in Ireland to offer fully accredited Nutritional Testing services In-house to the Food Industry on the island of Ireland.

These new service offerings will enable ALT to provide additional support services to the Irish food industry and assist them in complying with EU labelling regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 in
several ways including

1. By offering these testing services indigenously in Ireland, ALT can offer much reduced turnaround times by avoiding the existing need to subcontract Nutritional samples to the UK and mainland Europe.
2. Customers now have direct access to laboratory personnel which will result in significant improvement in the communication and understanding of results thus assisting customers with both on going and new product development (NPD) testing requirements.

For more information please click here to download our Nutritional Analysis brochure.