PTA Food Lab & Nutritional Services LTD

27/10/2025

🧐Freezing Myth Buster: Did you know? Freezing does NOT kill bacteria ,it only puts them to sleep! They wake up when food thaws!

21/07/2025

Conducts microbiological and chemical analyses in Cyprus. The laboratory is accredited by CYS EN / IEC ISO 17025 by the Cyprus Accreditation (CYS), and also participates in inter-laboratory proficiency tests.

The scope of our laboratory is to provide high quality, reliable services and analytical results in order to satisfy our customer’s needs.

03/07/2025

25/06/2025

👔Συμβουλευτικές υπηρεσίες:
Η εταιρεία PTA Food Lab & Nutritional Services LTD παρέχει υψηλής ποιότητας συμβουλευτικές υπηρεσίες σε εταιρείες και οργανισμούς.

Από τα πρώτα χρόνια της παρουσίας της μέχρι σήμερα, η PTA Food Lab & Nutritional Services LTD έχει καθιερωθεί ως μία από τις κορυφαίες συμβουλευτικές εταιρείες στην Κύπρο. Αρχικά, η εταιρεία παρείχε συμβουλευτικές υπηρεσίες εξειδικευμένες στην παρασκευή διαιτητικών προϊόντων και υγιεινής σε εταιρείες και οργανισμούς τροφίμων. Στη συνέχεια, η εταιρεία πλαισιώθηκε με έμπειρους και ουσιαστικούς συνεργάτες σε διάφορα θέματα και διεύρυνε το πρόγραμμα των συμβουλευτικών υπηρεσιών.

Η εταιρεία αυτή τη στιγμή εκτελεί το έργο της σε ένα συνεργατικό περιβάλλον με υψηλά ακαδημαϊκά και επαγγελματικά προσόντα, καθώς και με ένα δίκτυο εξειδικευμένων συνεργασιών εταιρειών στην Κύπρο και το εξωτερικό. Η εταιρεία προσφέρει ένα πλήρες φάσμα εξειδικευμένων συμβουλευτικών υπηρεσιών σε εταιρείες και οργανισμούς.

Η συμβουλευτική ομάδα της εταιρείας διαθέτει την απαραίτητη τεχνογνωσία για την παροχή συμβουλευτικών υπηρεσιών υψηλής ποιότητας.💪🏻🤝

03/06/2025

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12/05/2025

Nutritional Labeling of PTA Food Lab :

Nutritional labeling of foods (moisture, ash, protein, total fat, saturated fat, carbohydrates, sugars, dietary fiber, salt)

Preservatives such as nitrate, nitrite, benzoate, sorbic acid etc.

Profile of sugars

Profile of fatty acids and sterols

Minerals such as calcium, iron, sodium, potassium, zinc etc.

Heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury etc.

Determination of mycotoxins and particularly Aflatoxins B1, B2, G1 & G2, Aflatoxin M1 and Ochratoxin A.

08/05/2025

The AFPAD project regarding an antimicrobial fish-pad to extend the shelf life of fish products has been completed successfully.

Results: Below we demonstrate some of our results to see the huge difference between the commercial pads and the AFPAD system.
• Microbiological: The AFPAD system offers about 24 hours life extension on the fish product in VP & MAP. Compared to control pads with MAP, the AFPAD system also demonstrates high effectiveness, maintaining lower TVC levels throughout the storage period. The AFPAD system combined with MAP is particularly effective, holding its own against other MAP-based methods and significantly outperforming both vacuum-sealed packaging and negative control pads (see figure 2).
• Gas production: When the chemicals compounds in the AFPAD system sealed in plastic trays were activated with an aqueous base fish serum, the O2 increased by 14% from 20.5% to 23.9% and the CO2 gas increased by 2400% from 0.1% to 2.5% by day 3.
• Fish nutritional values: No significant changes between the control pads and the AFPAD system over time (positive results).
• Fish pH values: No significant changes between the control pads and the AFPAD system over time.
• Fish fat oxidation values: the NH3 levels measured confirm the results found on the microbiological section. In vacuum sealed packaging process, the fish with the control pad was not safe for consumption after 6 days (NH3 levels>5mgN/100g) and the fish with the AFPAD system was not safe for consumption after 8 days. In MAP process, the fish with the control pad was not safe for consumption after 10 days (NH3 levels>5mgN/100g) and the fish product with the AFPAD system was still safe for consumption after 10 days of storage.
• Fish sensory evaluation: The AFPAD system offers about 24 hours life extension on the fish product in vacuum sealed packaging and about 48 hours life extension on the fish product in MAP process.

Conclusion: To sum up, the AFPAD is better than the commercially available pads, as it combines multiple advantages and technologies into a single antimicrobial system. According to the experimental data it can increase the shelf-life of the fish by at least one day in vacuum sealed packaging and for two days in MAP process. Therefore, it can be considered as an all-in-one multi-functional antimicrobial system for the active packaging industry. AFPAD has the potential to become a competitive innovative product that can pe*****te quickly the fish packaging global industry and acquire a significant share and at the same time to be adjusted for other food products such as meat & vegetables.

28/03/2025

Πραγματοποιούνται μικροβιολογικές και χημικές αναλύσεις για τον έλεγχο της ποιότητας νερού πόσιμου, πηγών, γεωτρήσεων, λίμνη, ποτάμι, βιομηχανίας, νερού για αγροτική χρήση , άρδευση , κτηνοτροφία-πτηνοτροφία και πάγου. 🌊

22/03/2025

💧 World Water Day: Ensuring Safe & Clean Water for All 💧

Water is the essence of life, and at PTA Food Lab & Nutritional Services LTD, we are committed to ensuring its safety. Through accredited microbiological and chemical analyses, we help safeguard water quality, protecting both public health and the environment.

On this , let’s remember the importance of clean water and the role of scientific testing in preserving it for future generations. 🌍💙

07/02/2025

31/01/2025

Our latest project with the title “An innovative biodegradable and antimicrobial absorbent fish pad system for extended shelf-life and quality preservation”. 🐟

14/01/2025

DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL ANTIMICROBIAL ABSORBENT FISH PAD (AFPAD) TO EXTEND THE SHELF-LIFE AND QUALITY OF FISH PRODUCTS 🐟
Our team developed an innovative active and controlled release biodegradable antimicrobial pad for food packaging applications, that can increase the food shelf life, prevent food waste and decrease the packaging costs. The pad incorporates two chemical compounds, that when they come in contact with liquid, they release two antioxidant agents and gases. Therefore, this pad will be able to eliminate pathogenic organisms and spoilage (including resistant ones) and inhibit the pathogen’s growth. Also, the release of the gases through chemical reactions can prevent the pathogenic organism’s growth and decrease the food packaging costs (no need to infuse mix gas mixtures directly into the MAP food packages).