Get to know AGq labs

Control laboratory – Agronomy, Food and Environment

WHAT IS AGQ LABS?

Technological platform for global solutions

AGQ Labs is an analytical technology center specializing in advanced tests and specialized chemical engineering, offering valuable solutions and services for the Agricultural, Food, Environmental, Mining, Health and Pharmaceutical sectors. It combines technology (analytical chemistry) and specialized knowledge (applied chemical engineering).

The development and growth of AGQ Labs are based on the substantial differential factors our company offers to the market. Our priority objective is to help our customers produce more efficiently, sustainably, and with maximum use of natural resources. This principle applies to all sectors in which we work.

On the other hand, our competitiveness comes from the technology used and the services we design based on it.

CONTROL LABORATORY

Our network of laboratories has all the capabilities to perform the most complex tests on all types of matrices. Our value lies in the following:

Technology, all our laboratories are equipped with the most modern analytical instrumentation
International accreditation
Quality of results
Agility in response times
BeSafer: an online platform for data consultation and processing

TECHNOLOGICAL CENTER

It has been our vocation from the beginning always to have a proactive attitude toward the needs of our customers. That is why we do not limit ourselves to receiving samples and delivering analytical results. The professionals working in our laboratories have particular expertise to address projects that, based on analysis and innovation, open new ways of working. We get to the root of the problem to provide our customers with the most innovative, differential, and profitable solution.

INSPECTION

A correct environmental analytical assessment or food characterization often goes through a previous inspection and sampling phase. AGQ Labs specializes in this type of work as an independent third party. These inspections and sampling can be performed under ISO-17020 accreditation (usually when they have to do with regulatory requirements) or by following internal standard operating procedures.

EXPERT ADVICE

It is part of our business model to give the same importance to our work as a testing laboratory as our role as specialized consultants in the different areas in which we work. That is, the analysis itself is nothing more than a source of information from which, after a correct technical interpretation, to provide a valuable service to our customers. Agronomists, geologists, environmentalists, chemists with different specialties, biologists, pharmacists, etc., make up a multidisciplinary technical network that interacts with each other, thus generating knowledge and expertise continuously.

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AGQ LABS IN THE UNITED STATES

More than 10 years of experience

In 2010, AGQ Labs USA started operations and quickly became the preferred laboratory for chemical analysis in food and soils.

AGQ Labs USA services the Agricultural and Food industries across North America, mainly through nutritional monitoring of crops and pesticide residue analysis of foods. Our expertise in chemical analysis enables us to provide our customers with the fastest and most cost-effective solutions in the industry.

AGQ Labs USA’s laboratory is equipped with the following state-of-the-art instruments:

Liquid Chromatography- Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)
Gas Chromatography- Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS/MS)
Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-OES)
UV/Vis Spectrophotometry
LECO
Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS)
Other benchmark equipment

STATE OF THE ART

Solution based laboratory

AGRICULTURAL LABORATORY

Analysis of nitrogen forms, metals, anions, cations, and physicochemical properties in water, soil, and foliar solutions.

Soil Factory Lab. Laboratory specialized in agronomic soil analysis. Analysis of physicochemical properties in fertilizers and sludge for agricultural use. We have advanced instrumentation (ICP-OES, ICP-MS, CFA, elemental analyzers, etc.)

FOOD SAFETY LABORATORY

Organic area with gas mass chromatography and triple quadruple liquid mass chromatography for analyzing organic contaminants.

Inorganic area for analysis of chemical contaminants equipped with ICP-MS, ICP-OES, Ion Chromatography, etc.

FOOD QUALITY LABORATORY

Inorganic Nutritional Laboratory for all tests related to the nutritional properties of foods.

Organic Laboratory for analysis of vitamins, organic acids, etc.

Techniques: ICP-OES, ICP-MS, HPLC, Volumetry, etc.

Quality, Accreditations and Projects

We have the highest level of national and international accreditation for testing laboratories (ISO 17025), in addition to other accreditations and authorizations, such as the certification for the performance of studies of Good Laboratory Practices (GLP), of which AGQ Labs has a certificate of compliance for the performance of studies of physicochemical characterization, residues and analytical chemistry in phytosanitary products.

Accreditations and Certifications

ISO/IEC Standard 17025:2017 (updated 2023)

General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories.

Certification and scope

2016 TNI Standard Volume 1 (updated 2023)

Management and Technical Requirements for Laboratories Performing Environmental Analysis.