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Beechwood Laboratories
Committed to Quality
WELCOME TO
BEECHWOOD LABORATORIES
Beechwood Laboratories is a UKAS accredited Food Testing lab based in Ballyclare with close access to all the main routes within Northern Ireland. We recently celebrated our 36th year in business and since the beginning have tried to offer a great service where the customer comes first.
With both Microbiological and Chemical testing carried out on site we are a one stop shop for all your testing needs. We currently service customers right across the province and beyond in every sector of the food and feed sector.
We aren’t just a food testing facility as we like to work directly with customers to help improve their food safety and food quality agenda. Our experience, technical and industry knowledge puts us in a unique position to service our customers’ needs and we are constantly striving to improve our customer engagement and support systems.
Rest assured your testing requirements are in good hands with our collaborative team who put impartiality, confidentiality and customer service at the top of their agenda.
ABOUT US
Beechwood Laboratories was founded in 1984 by the late George Alan Gardner MBE PhD FIFST and its reputation has steadily grown within the NI market since then. The business still remains in the Gardner family with both of Alans daughters, Julie and Lisa, still actively involved in ensuring the customers experience the same level of communication and support that has always been key to Beechwood’s success.
The senior team is strengthened by our very experienced Laboratory Manager Alan McMorris who has been managing the laboratory function for over 30 years. His attention to detail with respect to legislation, processes and the UKAS function has ensured the laboratory is unrivalled in the quality and accuracy of its testing methodologies.
The newest member of the team is Dr Aidan Wilson who studied as a Microbiologist at Queens University. After 5 years managing Microbiology laboratories in Northern Ireland he moved to the mainland UK as Technical Director, Operations Director and Managing Director of some large food production businesses. He brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience of the real factory environment and the everyday challenges food businesses face and is able to support our customers in their investigations and improvements.
SERVICES
Beechwood Laboratories is unique in Northern Ireland as it can carry out both Microbiological and Chemistry testing under one roof so we are a one stop business for all your testing requirements. We collaborate with our customers to ensure the testing suites we design with you meet your needs. This helps minimise cost and provides the best information to support your business.
Beechwood Laboratories can also analyse a range of water samples for both Microbiological and Chemical content.
The majority of our routine testing methods are UKAS accredited. A full list of accredited tests can be found on our Schedule of Accreditation
MICROBIOLOGICAL TESTING
Trusted Results
We service a number of food, feed and other industries throughout Northern Ireland with a range of Microbiological testing protocols. The testing will be focussed on the customer requirements and can be for spoilage organisms, indicator organisms or pathogenic organisms or a combination of all of these.
Pathogens
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Salmonella
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Listeria
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E.coli 0157
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Staphylococcus aureus
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Bacillus cereus
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Clostridium perfringens
Indicators
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Aerobic Colony Count
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Enterobacteriaceae
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Coliforms
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Faecal Streptococci
Spoilage
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Yeasts
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Moulds
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Lactic Acid Bacteria
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Pseudomonas
CHEMICAL TESTING
We Know What We’re Doing
Our Food Chemistry team has many years experience in supporting food businesses in the chemical nature of their food and feedstuffs. We provide a range of common testing methods to meet our customer needs including Group 1 & 2 Nutritional Analysis and more specialist chemical testing including Sulphur dioxide, Nitrates and Nitrites. We are able to guide our customers through the complex food labelling process to ensure your product meets legislative requirements.
CONSULTANCY
Supporting Your Business
Through generation of results sometimes our customer needs support in either interpreting them or in improving processes and systems to ensure the risk to Food Safety or Quality is minimised at all times. Our experienced team can help support your business in areas such as:
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HACCP development
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BRC preparation
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Problem solving
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Internal Auditing
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Food Labelling
Our friendly open approach ensures that we walk you through each problem or process change collaboratively so the knowledge and skill remainwithin your business.
TRAINING
Supporting Your People
We offer a range of training courses with a personal touch to cover all your food business's needs. These include:
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HACCP training
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Food Safety Training
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Hygiene training
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Allergen awareness training
Our experienced trainers will engage with the trainees at a personal level and ensure that they understand the basic principles and can demonstrate these when they go back to their factory or business role.
CONTACT US
120 Ballymena Rd, Doagh, Ballyclare Co. Antrim, BT39 0TL, UK
028 9335 2691