FAQs

Focus On Food provides microbiological testing on all types of food, we help determine acceptability of ingredients or foods as required for ensuring product safety.
What tests do you offer?

Focus On Food provides qualitative and/or quantitative testing service for all shelf stable food matrices, product sample and finished products.

As a food manufacturing business, you have a range of responsibilities related to food safety. Every food business is recommended to contact particular food safety testing of their products, and to have a food safety testing lab to achieve this.

When you make a significant change to your product or process. For example: a new ingredient or change in cooking / baking settings.

The total cost for all Suite Of Tests are included on our website, by clicking on the request a quotation button.
Turnaround times vary from each test. Please allow up to 14 days for processing depending on the test selected, and postage times for samples to arrive at the lab.
Once you have matched your food item with the category list on the website, received your quotation and accepted it. Then payment is required prior to Focus On Food despatching your sample kit including packaging material, and your Sample Submission form which is to accompany your samples to the lab.
It is important that the food item you are sending to the lab for testing remains in its retail package, sealed, with a descriptive label and best before or sample date clearly visible.
Single retail unit, sealed, labelled and Best Before or Sample Date.
On excepting your quotation, you can then pay securely on line through Australia Post – SecurePay.
We will email you back your lab test results. You will receive your Certificate of Analysis report as well as an explanation provided by our Food Technology Consultant making your lab report easy to understand. Allow up to 10 business days for processing, depending on test type and postage times. 
NATA is the National Association of Testing Authorise. Our food laboratory is NATA accredited laboratory. NATA accreditation provides our customers with the assurance that an external body audits our food laboratory to ensure competency of the laboratory performing analyse.
The difference is that all Focus On Food tests are covered by NATA>
Please feel free to contact Focus On Food with any questions you have.

Contact: Richard Brett on 0488 006 116 or via email on richard@focusonfood.com.au