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Laboratories for the Environment, Agriculture, and Food-LEAF-

LEAF is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment designed to provide various testing needs covering different kinds of matrices targeted toward the Lebanese industry in general and the agro-food sector in particular.

LEAF offers services to the environmental health, engineering, nutrition, agriculture, and pharmaceutical sectors.

LEAF Services

LEAF Environmental Testing

LEAF offers testing of several matrices to the communities in Lebanon and nearby regional countries, providing reliable and defensible data that can be used with confidence in decision-making processes. LEAF maintains a complete commitment to equality that is fundamental in order to remain as a viable, competitive force in the analytical service market.
LEAF quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) program meets the ISO/IEC 17025: 2017 standard requirements. LEAF conducts testing on air polluting, water, wastewater, soil, compost, agro-food (food and animal feed); packaging materials; and petroleum (e.g., gasoline, diesel, and industrial oil).

Our services cover food chemistry, food microbiology, nutritional analysis, rheology, labeling, packaging permeability and migration, pesticide residues, heavy metals, colorants, allergens, endotoxins, and aflatoxins. LEAF can also test pharmaceutical product, conduct occupational and public health research, and provide diagnostic medical services. All the routine analytical testing LEAF offers follow international standard procedures including HACH, ISO, ASTM, EPA, AOAC, British Standards, peer-reviewed methods, and standard testing methods, in addition to in-house developed methods and non-standard methods.

HPLC

A vital device for the separation and identification of components in a mixture such as colorants, sweeteners, sugars, aflatoxin, ochratoxin.

OTR and WVTR Analyzers
Providing testing capabilities to test the water vapor and oxygen permeability of various packaging materials.

LC-MS/MS

The leading device for the identification of trace amounts of vitamins, pharmaceuticals, and pesticides.

DHR 3 Rheometer
A state-of-the-art- rheometer providing the capability to measure the rheological properties of different fluids at varying conditions

GC/MS- FID- NDP- ECD- NCD

A powerful and sensitive device with different detectors, that can identify trace amounts of compounds as pesticides, PAHs, PCBs and Solvents

Element Analyzer

An instrument dedicated for the determination of Total Nitrogen, Total Carbon, Total Organic Carbon, Total Sulfur, Total Hydrogen and Total Oxygen in a variety of matrices

Lioyd Tensile
An all-purpose compression/tensile equipment with capabilities to run texture analysis on food matrices and conduct several other tests on packaging films and materials

ICP-MS

The latest technology for measuring minerals and heavy metals in various matrices