In 65 countries throughout the world, ALS provides testing, inspection, certification, and verification services. Its 15,000 people work in 350 sites across a variety of industries, including agricultural, consumer products, aerospace and military, construction, oil and gas, and more. ALS provides a variety of food safety testing services, including testing and analysis, consultation, auditing, and training. In 2012, the company was inducted into the Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame.

After purchasing North American mineral laboratory firms "Chemex Labs" in December 1999 and 'Bondar Clegg' in December 2001, ALS became one of the world's major providers of laboratory analysis services to the minerals sector.

ALS employs more than 17,000 people at over 370 sites throughout 65 countries in Australia, Asia, the Pacific, North and South America, Europe, and Africa. Currently, the corporation is organized into many business lines.

• Founded: 1863
• Headquarters: Brisbane, Australia
• Services: Testing, Inspection, Certification, Verification
• Number of locations: 370 sites, 65 countries, 6 continents (end 2016)
• Website: https://www.alsglobal.com/

Bureau Veritas is global testing, inspection, and certification company with over 1,500 locations and labs serving clients in 140 countries and more than 78,000 employees. This is a French company founded in 1828. Under the three areas of assets, goods, and systems, the organization assists businesses across sectors in meeting quality, health and safety, environmental, and social responsibility criteria. Food testing, inspection, and certification are among Bureau Veritas' food industry services, which encompass food production, food manufacturing and processing, and food retail, service, and hospitality.

In particular, It operates in a variety of sectors, including Building & Infrastructure (27% of revenue), Agri-food & Commodities (23% of revenue), Marine & Offshore (7% of revenue), Industry (22% of revenue), Certification (7% of revenue) and Consumer Products (14% of revenue).

In 2019, Bureau Veritas made €5.1 billion in revenue. Since March 2012, Didier Michaud-Daniel has been the CEO of Bureau Veritas.

• Founded: 1828
• Headquarters: Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, France
• Area served: Worldwide (140 countries)
• Services: Testing, inspection, certification
• Website: www.bureauveritas.com

Eurofins is a prominent food safety testing firm in the food, environment, pharmaceutical, and cosmetics industries, and is a fast-growing European corporation.

It also provides genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences, and clinical study support testing and laboratory services.

Eurofins Group has over 900 laboratories in 50 countries and a portfolio of over 200,000 approved analytical procedures for determining the safety, identification, purity, composition, authenticity, and origin of goods and biological substances. In addition to clinical diagnostic tests, Eurofins offers in-vitro diagnostic products. The Group takes advantage of the most recent breakthroughs in biotechnology and analytical sciences through research and development, in-licensing, and acquisitions.

• Founded: 1987
• Founder: Gilles Martin
• Headquarters: Luxembourg
• Industry: Testing and Laboratory analysis
• Revenue: EUR 5,4 billion (2021)
• Website: https://www.eurofins.com/

Intertek Group plc is a global quality assurance company with clients in a variety of sectors. Over 46,000 people work for the organization, which has 1,000 facilities in over 100 countries and provides assurance, testing, inspection, and certification services to assist clients to satisfy quality, health, environmental, and safety requirements.

Intertek provides solutions to a variety of industries in the food business, including meat, dairy, honey and hives, seafood, fruits and vegetables, convenience foods, hotels, and retail. It has labs throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific that test and analyzes food.

Intertek’s food testing services include: Microbiology, Campylobacter, Shelf life testing, Chemical and nutritional, Nutritional analysis, Meat species identification, Allergens, Residues and contaminants, Food packaging, Genetically modified organisms (GMOs), Honey analysis, Sensory analysis.

• Founded: 1888
• Headquarters: London, England, UK
• Industry: Testing
• Key people: David Reid (chair­person) , André Lacroix (CEO), Ross McCluskey (CFO), Diane Bitzel, PhD (CIO)
• Revenue: £2,741.7 million (2020)
• Website: www.intertek.com

Mérieux NutriSciences Corporation began as an analytical laboratory in Lyon, France, in 1897, and has since developed into a global firm focused on health services and solutions. With a workforce of over 7,000 professionals spread over 26 countries, the organization provides analysis, consulting, auditing, training, contract research, and sensory analysis services to its clients. From detecting viruses to determining product stability and nutritional content, Mérieux NutriSciences provides food safety testing and other services to enterprises across the supply chain.

Mérieux NutriSciences’ food safety services and solutions include: Food Testing, Environmental Monitoring, Contract Research Services, Sensory and Consumer Research, Food Label Compliance Services, Safety and Quality Consulting, Audits and Inspection, Digital Solutions, Education and Training Pet Food Testing, FDA Detention Services.

• Founded: 1967
• Headquarters: Chicago, United States
• Number of location: more than 100 Laboratories
• Key people: Dr John H. Silliker (founder), Alexandre Mérieux (chairman of the board), Nicolas Cartier (CEO)
• Parent: Institut Mérieux
• Website: www.merieuxnutrisciences.com/corporate

NEOGEN Corporation is a global food safety testing firm with offices in 12 countries and sales in 140, that provides test kits and relevant products to detect dangerous substances in food.

Clients include companies in the food processing, animal protein, and agricultural industries, as well as companion and performance animal enterprises, life sciences, and toxicology. It detects foodborne bacteria, natural toxins, genetic alterations, food allergies, medication residues, plant diseases, and sanitation problems using dehydrated culture medium and diagnostic test kits.

NEOGEN’s food safety solutions include: Adulteration, Allergens, Chemical Contaminants, Cleaners & Disinfectants, Dairy Antibiotics, Genomics, Microbiology, Mycotoxins, Sanitation Monitoring.

It became a Chinese government vendor in 2009 and has been investigating China-specific food safety and plant health concerns since then.

• Founded: 1982
• Headquarters: Lansing, Michigan, U.S.
• Industry: Healthcare, food safety, animal safety, genomics
• Area served: Worldwide
• Revenue: US$418.17 million (2020)
• Website: neogen.com

SGS S.A. is a multinational firm that provides services such as inspection, verification, testing, and certification. SGS, which began as an agricultural inspection firm in 1878, currently employs over 93,000 people (in 2021) in 2,600 offices and labs across the world. Food and agriculture, chemicals, construction, consumer products, energy, life sciences, oil and gas, and many more sectors are served by the firm.

SGS provides services to enterprises in the food and agricultural industry that encompass the full supply chain, including agrochemicals, seeds, biofuels, fertilizers, processing facilities, fresh produce, and processed food produce. Audits and certification, testing and analytical services, inspection, verification technical solutions, advising, and training are just a few of the services it offers.

SGS was ranked by Forbes in 2017 as a Top Multinational Performer and one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies.

• Founded: 1878
• Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland
• Industry: Quality
• Services: testing, inspection, certification
• Key people: Calvin Grieder (Chairman), Frankie Ng (CEO), Dominik de Daniel (CFO)
• Revenue: CHF 5.6 billion (2020)
• Website: www.sgs.com

Symbio Laboratories is a portion of food, agriculture, and environmental analytical testing firm based in Australia. It is also a Quarantine Approved premises for sample testing from overseas clients, as well as a government-appointed analyst for analyzing imported foods. Environmental testing, food and nutrition testing, farm testing, and chemical, residue, and microbiological testing are all services provided by Symbio.

Symbio’s food safety testing services include: Microbiology, Pesticide Residues and Heavy Metals, Routine Chemicals Analysis, Mycotoxin Analysis, Food nutrition, Fruit, vegetable, and nut testing, Meat testing, Horticultural testing.

SYMBIO LABORATORIES PTY LTD has 150 employees at this location (in Eight Mile Plains) and there are 9 companies in the SYMBIO LABORATORIES PTY LTD corporate family.

• Founded: 1997
• Headquarters: Eight Mile Plains, Queensland, Australia
• Revenue: $17.46 million
• Website: symbiolabs.com.au
• Phone: +61-733405700

Thermo Fisher Scientific is a scientific instruments, reagents and consumables, and software services company based in the United States. Thermo Fisher, based in Waltham, Massachusetts, was created in 2006 when Thermo Electron and Fisher Scientific merged. Life Technologies Corporation (2013), Alfa Aesar (2015), Affymetrix (2016), FEI Company (2016), and BD Advanced Bioprocessing are among the reagent, consumable, instrumentation, and service suppliers that Thermo Fisher has bought (2018).

The corporation earned $21 billion in revenue in 2017 and was a Fortune 500 company. In 2018, the corporation employed over 100,000 people (in 2021) and had yearly revenues of $US 24 billion.

The FDA granted Thermo Fisher emergency use authorization for a SARS-CoV-2 test in March 2020 to aid in the mitigation of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Founded: 1956
• Headquarters: Waltham, Massachusetts, U.S.
• Industry: Laboratory equipment, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, healthcare
• Area served: Worldwide
• Key people: Marc N. Casper (President & CEO), Mark Stevenson (COO), Ryan Snyder (CIO)
• Revenue: US$32.21 billion (2020)
• Website: www.thermofisher.com

TÜVs (short for German: Technischer Überwachungsverein, English: Technical Inspection Association) are internationally active, independent service companies based in Germany and Austria that test, inspect, and certify a wide range of technical systems, facilities, and objects to reduce risks and prevent damage. TÜV Nord, TÜV Rheinland, and TÜV SÜD (including TÜV Hessen) are the three largest holdings, whereas TÜV Thüringen, TÜV Saarland, and TÜV Austria are tiny separate enterprises.

TÜV SÜD AG is a stock corporation based in Munich, Germany. The company does not have a stock market listing. The registered organization TÜV SÜD, which has roughly 13,500 members, owns 74.9 percent of the shares, while the TÜV SÜD Foundation owns the remaining 25.1 percent. The association's members include the energy corporations E.ON, Vattenfall, and EnBW. It provides a wide range of services as a technical testing organization, with testing and certification as its primary focus. With 24,000 people, it had yearly revenues of €2.3 billion in 2015. TÜV SÜD has over 800 facilities in Germany, Europe, the United States, and Asia. Around 43% of purchases are made outside of the United States.

Its solutions for the food safety testing market include testing, auditing, inspection, and certification across the supply chain.

• Founded: 1866 - 1990
• Headquarters: Munich, Germany
• Industry: chemical and process, consumer products and retail, energy, healthcare and medical devices, infrastructure and rail, manufacturing, mobility and automotive, and real estate.
• Number of locations: more than 800: Germany, Europe, America, Asia
• Website: https://www.tuvsud.com/de-de