Discover the power of advanced analytics to unlock the full potential of your natural products.
We offer specialised analytical services built on deep expertise in lipids and natural products, extensive practical experience in solving challenging analytical problems, and a suite of leading-edge analytical technologies. Whether you're creating the next breakthrough nutraceutical or aiming to lead the cosmetics industry, our team is here to help you succeed.
Benefits to your business
With our expertise, you can explore new market applications and bring science-backed natural health solutions to market.
We will help you identify the unique attributes of your nutraceutical, cosmetic, food, or beverage product, empowering you to make informed decisions throughout your product development journey.
We support product development and process optimisation, unlock deep insights into your materials and feedstock, and boost confidence in your final product.
All services, including ISO 17025 accredited testing, are available globally.
Our services
Lipids and natural products testing
Lipids (fats, oils) and natural product extracts contain an almost infinite variety of bioactives and unique valuable compounds. This is what sets natural products and ingredients apart. Testing these molecules requires deep expertise, experience, and access to specialised equipment.
We offer a wide range of tests for all types of natural products available in New Zealand.
If you work with bovine, non-bovine and plant-based milks, milk powders, infant formulas and infant formula ingredients -
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- MFGM testing
- Phospholipids (ISO 17025 accredited), including sphingomyelin, phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylcholine, plasmalogens
- Gangliosides, including GD3 and GM3
- Cerebrosides
- Fatty acids, including omega3, omega6, branched, short chain, ruminant trans-fatty acids (e.g. vaccenic acid)
- Beta-palmitate (OPO and OPL molecular species) and other molecular species
- Lipidomic studies.
We also test other beneficial components, including lactoferrin and peptides.
Contact us to get a quote for your sample testing.
For krill oil/powder, mussel oil/powder, fish oil, shark liver oil, seaweed and seaweed extracts -
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- Lipid class profiles
- Marine phospholipids, including sphingophospholipids, phosphonolipids, phosphatidylcholine and plasmalogens
- Fatty acids, including omega3, non-methylene interrupted (NMI), very long chain, fatty acids
- Sterols
- Alkylglycerols (AKGs) / Diacylglycerols (DAGE)
- Squalene
- Carotenoid analysis, including astaxanthin
- Oil quality (AnV, PV, Totox) and oxidation stability testing (Oxitest)
- Other quality testing – residual ethanol, trimethylamine (TMA) and trimethylamine oxide (TMAO) by NMR
- Lipidomic studies.
Contact us to get a quote for your sample testing.
We can analyse bioactives such as:
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- Phenolic compounds
- Terpenes, including sterols
- Pigments, including carotenoids, chlorophylls
- Essential oil profiling
- Antioxidant testing, formulation, accelerated stability (Oxitest)
- Fats and oil, including lipid classes, fatty acids (omega3/6/9), glycolipids, and more.
We can also assist with testing other secondary metabolites.
Contact us to get a quote for your sample testing.
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- Propolis testing, including key bioactive, phenolic compounds
- Fermentation products, microorganisms and fermentation metabolites
- Pharmaceutical ingredients.
If you don’t see your specific matrix or bioactive listed, please contact us to discuss your needs – we're here to help.
Contact us to get a quote for your sample testing.
If you work with bovine, non-bovine and plant-based milks, milk powders, infant formulas and infant formula ingredients -
-
- MFGM testing
- Phospholipids (ISO 17025 accredited), including sphingomyelin, phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylcholine, plasmalogens
- Gangliosides, including GD3 and GM3
- Cerebrosides
- Fatty acids, including omega3, omega6, branched, short chain, ruminant trans-fatty acids (e.g. vaccenic acid)
- Beta-palmitate (OPO and OPL molecular species) and other molecular species
- Lipidomic studies.
We also test other beneficial components, including lactoferrin and peptides.
Contact us to get a quote for your sample testing.
For krill oil/powder, mussel oil/powder, fish oil, shark liver oil, seaweed and seaweed extracts -
-
- Lipid class profiles
- Marine phospholipids, including sphingophospholipids, phosphonolipids, phosphatidylcholine and plasmalogens
- Fatty acids, including omega3, non-methylene interrupted (NMI), very long chain, fatty acids
- Sterols
- Alkylglycerols (AKGs) / Diacylglycerols (DAGE)
- Squalene
- Carotenoid analysis, including astaxanthin
- Oil quality (AnV, PV, Totox) and oxidation stability testing (Oxitest)
- Other quality testing – residual ethanol, trimethylamine (TMA) and trimethylamine oxide (TMAO) by NMR
- Lipidomic studies.
Contact us to get a quote for your sample testing.
We can analyse bioactives such as:
-
- Phenolic compounds
- Terpenes, including sterols
- Pigments, including carotenoids, chlorophylls
- Essential oil profiling
- Antioxidant testing, formulation, accelerated stability (Oxitest)
- Fats and oil, including lipid classes, fatty acids (omega3/6/9), glycolipids, and more.
We can also assist with testing other secondary metabolites.
Contact us to get a quote for your sample testing.
-
- Propolis testing, including key bioactive, phenolic compounds
- Fermentation products, microorganisms and fermentation metabolites
- Pharmaceutical ingredients.
If you don’t see your specific matrix or bioactive listed, please contact us to discuss your needs – we're here to help.
Contact us to get a quote for your sample testing.
Product testing: Phospholipid testing with NMR
31P NMR is the gold standard for accurately measuring phospholipids products. We support the leading manufacturers of phospholipid-containing products in New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region.
We offer the only ISO 17025 (dairy and infant formula) accredited 31P NMR test in the Asia-Pacific and our services are available globally.
If your product is related to dairy ingredients, infant formulas, marine oils (mussel, krill), phosphatidylserine, lecithin's and other phospholipid-rich products, get in touch with us to discuss opportunities for your business.
Research and Development
Our advanced R&D services go beyond standard testing to uncover what makes your product unique. With years of experience solving a wide range of problems, our services are delivered by some of the best experts in New Zealand, using state-of-the-art equipment and tailored to your needs.
- Understanding the uniqueness of your product to boost market credibility
- Isolating and establishing the structure of active ingredients to showcase their benefits
- Troubleshooting product variability and stability issues
- Leveraging AI and machine learning to enhance understanding of your product.
- Tailored method development
- Bioassay-guided fractionation
- Isolation, characterisation, and structure elucidation
- Analytical standards synthesis, isolation, verification (qNMR, LCMS, GCMS), e.g. enzymatic glucuronide conjugation products
- The only commercial analytical testing NMR facility in New Zealand
- Access to instruments and facilities, e.g. instrument/lab hire
- Planning and supporting funding bids, long term analytical support contracts, and collaborations
- Literature reviews, consulting and other R&D support.
Food Provenance and Authenticity Assessments
Validate the quality and origin of your products to protein their unique composition. Callaghan Innovation has the only FoodScreener NMR instrument and expertise in Asia-Pacific to authenticate honey, wine, juices and extra virgin olive oil.
We can also authenticate other products to protect your brand's reputation. Talk to us today about how to protect the authenticity of your products.
Instrument suite
- Bruker 500 MHz spectrometer equipped with a helium-cooled TCI cryoprobe for higher sensitivity.
- Bruker 500 MHz spectrometer equipped with a helium-cooled BBF cryoprobe for higher sensitivity.
- Bruker 400 MHz FoodScreener NMR spectrometer equipped with a BBI (broadband inverse) probe.
- Variety of Waters UPLCs quipped with PDA, ELSD detectors
- Shimadzu LCMS with triple quadrupole MSD
- Analytical Supercritical Fluid Chromatograph (SFC) Waters system equipped with PDA and QDA (MS)
- Waters Xevo G2-XS QToF which could be used either with UPLC or SFC
- Agilent GC/MS with PAL robotic autosampler with liquid, headspace and SPME injection
- Agilent GC/FID
Supporting analytical work, including automated extraction, particles size measurements, densitometers, modern compliant chemical laboratories, and more.
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I work as a Principal Research Scientist specialising in lipid analysis, food authenticity and fraud prevention research within the Biotechnologies research group. In my day-to-day job I focus on supporting multiple clients and partners using my knowledge of lipid chemistry and analytical methods.
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I am a Senior Research Scientist with expertise in Mass spectrometry and Biotechnologies. With over 15 years of experience, I have deep skill analysing diverse chemicals, ranging from small synthetic molecules to large natural proteins, using Quadrupole-Time-of-Flight (QTof) instruments equipped with various ion sources (ESI, APCI, APPI).
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