Intertek launches AgriTech laboratory for DNA-based testing in Hyderabad, India

Hyderabad, June 02, 2016: Intertek, a leading Total Quality Assurance provider to industries worldwide, has launched an AgriTech laboratory based in Hyderabad, India. High-tech DNA analyses will be performed by this purpose-built laboratory for the agri-biotech, plant seeds breeding, and plant seeds production industries.

The export of plant material from India is currently restricted, regulated and time consuming. India is ranked among the top 6 countries in the USD 45 billion commercial world seed market (2013, International Seed Federation). It is a strategic geography from which to supply both the domestic and international seed markets. The AgriTech laboratory equipped with state-of-the-art high throughput equipment in Hyderabad now enables customers to access market-leading technology services consistent with Intertek ScanBi Diagnostics in Sweden, which is a certified laboratory for several major seed companies.

Valentin Rossel, Global Business Line Leader – Agricultural Services at Intertek, said, “The launch of the AgriTech laboratory in India is a notable achievement for our AgriTech Global Product Line, and exemplary of Intertek’s expansion into providing innovative quality assurance services all across the agricultural supply chain from this key region in the world.”

The Intertek laboratory in Hyderabad has already an operational ISO17025 accredited capacity for wet-chemistry and micro-biology testing services. Together with the new DNA testing capabilities, synergies will be provided for new and existing customers and will also allow Intertek Agri Services to expand in multiple testing segments in India e.g. crop testing, pathogen testing, livestock and commodity testing. Within each segment, DNA-based tests are provided to customers for their breeding of new or improved traits (marker assisted breeding) and/or control of existing traits (quality control).

Learn more about Agricultural Services offered by Intertek:

www.intertek.com/agriculture

For more details contact:

Madhumita Guha
Director Marketing and ATIC Sales – India
+91 95609 44433
madhumita.guha@intertek.com

Corporate Comm India (CCI Newswire)