Updated: May-19-2020

General Information

Type of service provider
Testing laboratory
Physical postal address

P.O. BOX MB 245
Accra
Ghana

Phone number
+233 302-500065/66
E-mail
date_105 [at] msn.com
scientificmetrology [at] gsa.gov.gh
Has the laboratory been accredited in any scopes?
Yes
Scopes of Accreditation
MASS, BALANCE, TEMPERATURE, PRESSURE, HUMIDITY AND VOLUME
Accreditation body
DEUTSCHE AKKREDITIERUNGSSTELLE (DAKKS)
D-K-15209-01-00
Does the laboratory have other sites?
No

Personnel

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) / Head of Organization

CEO Name
PROF. ALEX DODOO
CEO Phone
CEO E-mail
exdsec [at] gsa.gov.gh

Total laboratory personnel

Total laboratory personnel
24
Male laboratory personnel
20
Female laboratory personnel
4

Technical personnel

Technical personnel total
22
Male technical personnel
18
Female technical personnel
4

Technical Information

Testing

Laboratory services offered
Civil engineering and construction
Biological
Medical
Chemical
Electrical
Water / food
Environmental
Mechanical
Scope of services offered
Test object or product tested or matrices
Cereal and cereal products, fats and oils, milk and milk products, fish and fishery products*, spices and condiments, meat and meat products, cocoa and cocoa products, beverages (alcoholic an non-alcoholic), tomato paste and concentrates.
Test parameter/ properties measured
Heavy metals, Trace metals
Type of test/ instrumentation used
Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (AAS), Inductively Coupled Plasma – Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS)
Methods
BS EN 14084 : 2003,

BS En 13804 : 2002,

BS EN 14083 : 2003,

BS EN 13806: 2002.
Accreditation status
Yes
Test object or product tested or matrices
Cereal and cereal products, fats and oils, milk and milk products, fish and fishery products*, spices and condiments, meat and meat products, cocoa and cocoa products, beverages (alcoholic an non-alcoholic), tomato paste and concentrates
Test parameter/ properties measured
Aflatoxin, Histamine, Patulin
Type of test/ instrumentation used
High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
Methods
Biogenic amines(Histamine):
Seiler et Knoedgen, Journal of chromatography 339, Page 45-47 (1985).

Aflatoxin:
ISO 16050: 2003,

Patulin:
ISO 8128-1: 1993.
Accreditation status
Yes
Test object or product tested or matrices
Cereal and cereal products, fats and oils, milk and milk products, fish and fishery products*, spices and condiments, meat and meat products, cocoa and cocoa products, beverages (alcoholic an non-alcoholic), tomato paste and concentrates
Test parameter/ properties measured
Chlorides, Organo-phosphorus, Synthetic pyrethroids
Type of test/ instrumentation used
Gas Chromatography – Varian,
Gas Chromatography – Mass Spectrometer (Agilent), Liquid Chromatography – Mass Spectrometer.
Methods
SANTE/11813/2017,

EN 15662: 2018
Accreditation status
Yes
Test object or product tested or matrices
Cereal and cereal products, fruits and vegetables, fats and oils, milk and milk products, fish and fishery products, spices and condiments, meat and meat products, cocoa and cocoa products, beverages (alcoholic an non-alcoholic), tomato paste and concentrates
Test parameter/ properties measured
Ash, Moisture, soluble solids, total acidity, pH, total alcohol, methanol, esters, aldehydes, volatile acids, total acids, total solids, total ash, protein, nitrogen content, peroxide value, free fatty acid, acid value, un-sapponifible matter, iodine value, impurities, sucrose, total sugars, energy, carbohydrates, fats
Type of test/ instrumentation used
Spectrometer, pH meter, Furnace, Soxtherm, Kjeldehl apparatus.
Methods
AOC 20th edition 2016
Accreditation status
Yes
Does the laboratory conduct sampling, upon request of the client, of products to be tested?
Yes

Proficiency Testing

Does the lab participate in proficiency testing for accredited scopes
Yes
Does the lab participate in proficiency testing for non-accredited scopes
Yes
PT Scheme details
FAPAS, UK
Does the laboratory sub-contract testing work to other laboratories?
Yes
Outsourced services
When any of the testing laboratories key equipment breaks down, and there is no alternative, then the respective laboratory outsources the testing until such time that the equipment are repaired.
Documented policies, procedures and records for the qualification, assessing and monitoring of all outsourced services providers
Yes
Please specify in which type of document all these aspects are covered
Procedures have been developed in response to these clauses in the ISO 17025:2017, Clause 7.3, 7.8.5.

Quality Control / Quality Management

Does the lab operate an internal quality control (QC) system to ensure quality of test results?
Yes
Does the lab operate a management system (or Quality Management System) for assuring the quality of results?
Yes
Is the system documented in a Quality Manual?
Yes