Probiotic product testing has become vital to a supplier’s success in this booming market.
Probiotics are rapidly expanding in popularity among the food and beverage industry due to their health benefits. As a result, buyers are looking to ensure the potency and purity of the products they purchase. Thus, it has become increasingly important for manufacturers to have data to support the identity and viability of their product(s).
Our team of microbiologists and researchers provides probiotic testing services to:
AEMTEK is proud to have some of the shortest turnaround times in the industry for probiotic testing. That’s right, our turnaround time for standard probiotic testing is just 3-5 days!
At AEMTEK, accurate results and exceptional customer service are the cornerstones of our business. That is why when you choose AEMTEK for probiotic testing, you will speak with our Director of Research to determine a testing plan that ensures your needs are met. From there, you will have continued easy access to our knowledgeable and friendly staff to answer all of your questions.
We use a combination of standard and client-specific methods for testing. In the latter case, AEMTEK is happy to work with our clients to develop product-specific testing methods or use one that the client has already developed. Although turnaround times for client-specific methods may vary, they are typically shorter than 10 days!
Determine if probiotic organisms in your product are alive in a sufficient concentration to provide their probiotic effects.
An organism must be alive, in sufficient concentrations, to deliver its probiotic effects. However, putting a specific volume of probiotics in your product does not guarantee the number of live probiotics in the finished product. That is because some of these organisms will not survive. With this in mind, AEMTEK uses precision culture methods to assess the probiotic organisms’ viability in your finished product. In essence, precision culture methods reveal the number of live and healthy individuals in the product at the time of testing. In other words, it tells you the quantity of live and healthy probiotics in your finished product when it leaves your facility.
While it is essential to know the probiotic concentrations as your product leaves the facility, this is simply a snapshot in time. In reality, the microorganism populations may change over the life of your product. In order to reveal the concentration of live probiotics in your product over time, AEMTEK offers probiotic shelf-life studies.
Probiotic shelf-life studies reveal the stability of the probiotics in your product. In other words, it tells you how well the organisms are surviving over the life of your product. In order to learn the rate at which probiotics will die off, we test the product at various intervals over time. As a result of this testing, you will know the length of time until the product no longer has a sufficient concentration of live organisms to meet product specifications. This information is important for supporting label claims as well as determining expiration and best by dates. In addition, the stability study will also provide insight into product formulation and packaging.
Our probiotic testing is performed on a wide variety of products. For example:
Don’t see the probiotic strain you’re looking to test? Just ask!
| Bifidobacterium spp. | Lactobacillus acidophilus | Lactobacillus rhamnosus |
| Bifidobacterium longum | Lactobacillus brevis | Saccharomyces boulardii |
| Bifidobacterium bifidum | Lactobacillus casei | Streptococcus thermophilus |
| Bifidobacterium breve | Lactobacillus fermentum | Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
| Bacillus subtilis | Lactobacillus plantarum | Aspergillus oryzae |
| Bacillus coagulans (Lactospores) | Lactobacillus delbrueckii subs. bulgaricus | Leuconostoc species |
…and More!
At AEMTEK, our experts use specialized media for selective enumeration to ensure the most accurate and dependable results.