Central Analytical Services (CAS)
CENTRAL ANALYTICAL SERVICES (CAS)
Services Offered by CAS
- Analytical and advisory services to industries in water and waste water, food, animal feed, chemicals and allied products (such as soaps, detergents, and petroleum products), leather, textiles, solid and liquid fuels, and minerals and related materials. CAS utilizes national, regional and international accredited methods and reference materials to assure the quality of industrial goods and services in order to enhance competitiveness and productivity of local industries. It also participates in proficiency testing schemes and interlaboratory tests and ensures continuous professional development of analysts
- Participate in the development of standards, codes of practice and production guidelines for industrial products.
- CAS collaborates with other research centres in KIRDI - Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (IMB-RC), Food Technology Research Centre (FT-RC) and Energy Resources and Energy Efficiency Research Centre (EREE-RC), Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Research Centre (ESSCC-RC), Engineering and Information and Communication Technology Research Centre (EICT- RC), Industrial Materials Research Centre (IM-RC) – to extend the scope of testing and analytical capabilities and competencies.
Quality Commitment of CAS
- To provide timely, reliable, quality and competitive testing and analytical services.
- To implement an effective quality assurance system that guarantees consistent quality to clients and continuous improvement of laboratory services.
- To observe highest level of integrity and confidentiality of test results.
- To comply with relevant statutory and regulatory requirements.
- To seek, respect, value and use customer feedback positively.
Key Facilities in CAS
CAS has specialized laboratories for testing and analysis of food, feeds, water, waste water, soil and minerals, chemicals, cosmetics, soaps and detergents, and other related matrices. Some equipment in the laboratories include ultra-high pressure liquid chromatography, fourier-transform near infrared spectrophotometer, atomic absorption spectrophotometer, uv-vis spectrophotometer, bomb calorimeter, automatic chemical oxygen demand and biological oxygen demand measurement systems, kjiedahl system, fibretech system, CIE-Lab color meter, texture analyzer, viscograph, farinograph and extensograph.