Ngaio Diagnostics is a NZ owned business offering innovative testing solutions to the food industry with a product range suited for in house or laboratory testing. With more than 30 years’ experience and representing some of the world’s leading manufacturers we are well placed to offer great testing solutions to NZ food manufacturers.
Ngaio’s product range includes Hygiena ATP Systems, including the new Ensure Touch that is easy to use with a large touch screen and Wi-Fi so that results can be stored in the cloud and accessed from anywhere. The Ensure Touch can also be used with MicroSnap, rapid 6- 8 hour microbiological detection, as well as ATP water tests and process efficiency tests, Alkaline Phosphatase and Acid Phosphatase.
Ngaio also supplies protein residue tests, ProClean and glucose/lactose residue tests, SpotCheck Plus and a range of Gluten and other allergen tests.
Ngaio has a range of solutions for Salmonella and Listeria testing. These include tests that can be done on-site such as Insite Salmonella, Insite Listeria and Listeria Glow which can detect Listeria species and Listeria monocytogenes. Also available are 24 hour and 48 hour Elisa tests for Salmonella and Listeria for higher volume applications and a range of molecular methods for these pathogens.
We also have a wide range of dehydrated culture media available.
Our staff have an in depth knowledge of the products we market to the food industry and we have excellent technical back up from our suppliers. We take pride in providing quality advice and support in a timely manner and ensuring products are supplied promptly.

We are a leading provider of food assurance services to Aotearoa’s primary and food production sectors. Sharing and applying knowledge and insights from over 100 years’ experience, we are dedicated to helping our partners uphold what Aotearoa stands for in food – a higher standard of quality and safety.

Merck is your partner in Food & Beverage testing.

As a worldwide leading provider of life science solutions, Merck address the needs of customers in industries where consumer safety is a major concern. We provide dependable, connected, and rapid solutions specifically tailored to the needs of the food and beverage industry.
Merck offer a broad and complete portfolio throughout the entire safety testing workflow. Driven by purpose-built solutions that combine world class access, accuracy, and expertise, we help you to streamline by providing reliable, efficient delivery of premium-grade consumables and testing components. We provide products and services to support every step of your microbial testing workflow with testing products and kits that comply with international standards. Our proficiency testing rounds, reference materials, and regulatory expertise help keep you in compliance now, and as quality requirements evolve. Our chemical testing solutions not only provide you with chemicals and reagents, but products for chemical air monitoring, sample preparation, inorganic analysis, and various chromatographic separations as well. Merck also offers a mobile and photometric analysis portfolio for better control of water, soil, or food testing. With us you can be sure your results are going to be accurate, precise, and consistent.
Contact Merck NZ today to find out how we can partner with you.

A national network of open-access food and beverage production facilities enabling businesses to scale up and commercialise new products.
From research and development through to manufacturing, the government funded network brings a unique level of expertise and access to a diverse suite of manufacturing equipment which provides an accessible pathway to market for businesses of all sizes.

MilkTestNZ is a world leading milk testing laboratory using highly automated processes and advanced technology. A range of microbiology, composition, analytical and specialty tests are available. More recently, MilkTestNZ has expanded its capability to include residue testing in both milk and milk products. MilkTestNZ provides a high quality service with rapid turnaround times at cost effective prices to our customers in New Zealand and internationally.
CEO – Udit Singh
Divisional Manager – Jacob Babu
Sales and Marketing Manager – Kavitha Babu
Customer Service Representative & Sample Reception Team Leader – Tyran McDonald
Customer Service Representative – Ivy Crawford

Really local. Truly global.
Eurofins Food and Water Testing NZ offers an unmatched scope of independent analytical testing and support services to customers across the food, water, and agricultural industries. Our laboratory network is spread nationally offering customers easy access to all our services.
Through our international network, we draw on a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods for characterising the safety, identity, purity, composition, authenticity, and origin of food and agricultural products. Our testing services are supported by the highest level of scientific expertise, fast turnaround times, and competitive pricing and include: Microbiology, food nutrition, general chemistry, pesticide residues, potable and process water, environmental, and physical and chemical contaminants.
We offer the dairy, meat, seafood, apiculture, food processing and petfood sectors a unique range of analytical techniques to assure quality and safety standards, and provide solutions to support product development, compliance, and market access.
While our roots are local, our expertise is global. When you partner with Eurofins Food and Water Testing NZ, you are partnering with an international laboratory network of 900 facilities in 50 countries.

Gribbles Scientific provides tailored solutions for all your food and environmental testing needs. We offer a comprehensive IANZ and LAS accredited service for microbiology, analytical chemistry, pathogen testing, nutritional analysis, shelf life testing, vitamins, allergens, hygiene monitoring, elemental analysis and feed and meal testing.

We pride ourselves on providing a high quality, rapid turnaround service, delivered by friendly and helpful scientific staff.

Cawthron Laboratories (part of the Cawthron Institute) is an independent science research organisation servicing the primary sector. It is an ISO 17025 accredited contract laboratory that has been operating for over 50 years, and has a proven track record for quality, analytical excellence and scientific expertise. Cawthron Laboratories offers the latest in analytical technology, customised services and a rapid response to industry needs. Capability includes: food chemistry, microbiology, aquatic toxins & natural products testing to GMP & TGA requirements. In addition to these routine services, a specialist R&D team are available for customised analytical work and research.

ATA Scientific specialises in sales, support and service for a range of analytical instruments for assessing food and drink products in terms of their structure, composition, physicochemical properties and sensory characteristics. These techniques are widely used by ingredient manufacturers, food producers, researchers and laboratories to ensure product quality, safety and process efficiency. 
Some of our innovative instruments include:
• Phenom Desktop Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), affordable, fast and easy to use high resolution imaging with elemental (EDS) analysis.
• Malvern Mastersizer 3000, enables wet and dry particle size measurements (10nm to 3.5mm)
• Malvern Zetasizer for the measurement of particle and molecular size, particle charge and particle concentration.
• Malvern Morphologi 4-ID for automated imaging of particle size, shape and chemical identification. 
• Attension Theta Optical Tensiometer for surface interaction between gas, liquids and solids.
• Micromeritics gas sorption instruments for surface area & pore size measurements plus density of powders.