Infrastructure Facilities

Facilities Available

The laboratory has excellent testing facilities and is well equipped with various sophisticated analytical instruments such as GC, GLC, HPLC, NanoDrop spectrophotometer, Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer, ICP, Lovibond tintometer etc. Facilities for testing the compatibility of various packaging materials (with foods) and their physical standard also exist. A well-equipped animal house enables nutritional and safety evaluation of a variety of foods. Some of the recent additions to the processing equipments include, High pressure processing, Pulsed Electric Field processing, Khoa making machine, controlled atmosphere system, integrated soya paneer plant, blast freezer and plate freezer lyophilizer, polymer twin screw extruder. food scanner, texturometer, hydrosorb, hybridization oven, Image analyser, Thermo gravimetric analyser, differential scanning caloriemeter, dynamic mechanical analyser, alveoConsistograph graph, cell counter, gradient thermal cycler, scanning electron microscope, Gel documentation system and Atomic Force microscope.