New laboratory for Lyons Seafoods

The revamped laboratories have been fitted with the most up to date testing kit to ensure maximum product safety. Jim Landry, technical director at Lyons Seafoods, said: "The upgrade at our Codford labs is part of a five year, £1 million investment in our facilities and demonstrates our ongoing commitment to a comprehensive and safe worldwide sourcing strategy. "Our team of fully trained chemists and microbiologists test for all types of pathogens, vibrios and other food related bacteria including antibiotics to ensure the seafood we sell is of a first class standard. We are also currently running melamine and allergen testing trials that we will have in place as standard procedure in the first half of this year." The new facility is fitted with a High Performance Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometer Mass Spectrometer – a machine which helps accurately identify and quantify antibiotics. It is CLAS (Campden Laboratory Accreditation Scheme) accredited meaning that the Codford laboratory has been vetted by the leading independent laboratory scheme for food industry laboratories.