Our focus

• Analysis and assessment of
  • Vegetable food in general
  • Coffee
  • Tea and tea-like products
  • spices, fixed products, food mustard
  • Bathing water
• Performance of microbiological tests, advice on microbiological and hygiene issues, hygiene controls
• Analysis of pesticide residues, nitrate, illicit dyes (e.g. azo dyes), plant constituents (e.g. caffeine)

National reference laboratories

• National reference laboratory for pesticide residues

Opening hours

MO - DO 07:30 - 15:30 h FR 07:30 - 12:00 h

Our focus

• Analysis and assessment of
  • Food for children
  • honey, sugar, sugar types, confectionery, cocoa, -products
  • fats, oils and their products
  • pasta, soups, table salt
  • ready meals, delicatessen
  • Food additives
  • toys and baby products
• Analysis of nutrients, vitamins and other food ingredients, mycotoxins, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
• Toy analysis
• Immission measurements with plants (biomonitoring)

National reference laboratory

• National reference laboratory for mycotoxins and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)

Our focus

• Analysis and assessment of
  • Animal food
  • Cosmetics
  • Consumer goods
  • Beverages
  • Food supplements
  • Novel foods
  • Spirits
  • Feed (analytics only)
• Analysis of ingredients and additives, veterinary drugs, hormones, contaminants, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), allergens
• Varieties and species identification
• Detection of food irradiation

National Reference Laboratories

• National reference laboratory for food contact materials
• National reference laboratory for residues of veterinary drugs and contaminants in food of animal origin
• National reference laboratory for genetically modified organisms (GMOs)

Our specialisations

• Food law: Advice and coordination centre for food law issues and protection against misrepresentation, contact: lebensmittelrecht@ages.at
• Sustainable food systems: Operation of the service centre for sustainable food and nutrition systems to provide administrative and technical support to the BMK, BMLUK and BMASGPK, contact: nachhaltigkeit@ages.at
• Origin and authenticity: Technical coordination of the topics of origin, authenticity and adulteration,
  Contact: herkunft@ages.at
• AGES internet unit: Support for authorities in the area of official internet monitoring and control,
  Contact: internetkontrolle@ages.at
• Fraudulent practices: Central office for combating AGRI-Food Fraud along the entire food chain,
  Contact: betrug@ages.at
• Research projects along the food chain: monitoring and project-related processing of new risk topics

Our focus

• National contact point "Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed" (RASFF)
• National support point "Rapid Alert System for Non Food Consumer Products" (RAPEX)
• Administrative processing of "Organic Farming Information System" (OFIS)
• Administrative processing "Trade Control and Expert System" (TRACES)
• National contact point of the "International Food Safety Authorities Network" (INFOSAN) of the WHO (World Health Organization)
• Liaison office according to VO(EU) 882/2004
• National contact point "Better Training for Safer Food" (BTSF)
• Internet monitoring to support the areas of medical market surveillance and food safety (cosmetics, novel foods, food supplements) against prohibited advertising, control of the Internet market
• Bathing water monitoring