Olive Oils
Laboratory Tello is qualified in olive oils analysis and its derivatives. We analyse a wide range of standards, applying the most advanced technology in order to guarantee our results.
Our most demanded determinations in olive oils are:
Quality
- DEGREE OF ACIDITY
- PEROXIDE INDEX
- SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC ANALYSIS TEST IN ULTRAVIOLET-K270, K232, ΔK
- HUMIDITY AND VOLATILE MATTER
- INSOLUBLE IMPURITIES
- ALKYL ESTERS
Organoleptic Assessment in Virgin Olive Oil (VOO)
- EEC REGULATION no. 2022/2104 and its subsequent modifications
Purity
- WAXES
- CONTENT STEROLS AND TOTAL STEROLS
- TOTAL FATTY ACID COMPOSITION
- 3,5-STIGMASTADIENE
- DIFFERENCE ECN42 OBTAINED BY HPLC AND THEORETICAL WITH ECN42 (∆ECN42)
- * THE DETERMINATION OF UNSAPONIFIABLE MATTER
- ALIPHATIC ALCOHOLS
- MONOPALMITATE 2-GLYCERYL
Contaminants
- PLAGUICIDES
- POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS (PAHS)
- * HALOGENATED DERIVATIVES
- * DIQUAT
- * HEAVY METALS
- * PCB´S
- * MELAMINE
- * DIOXINES AND SIMILAR PCB´S TO DIOXINES
- * ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS
- * HEXANE
- PHTHALATES AND OTHER PLASTICISERS
- * AFLATOXINES
- * SOLVENT RESIDUE
- * COPPER CHLOROPHYLLS
- INHERENT PLANT TOXINS (ERUCIC ACID)
- * MOSH AND MOAH (Mineral oils hydrocarbons saturated and aromatic)
- * GLYCIDYLIC STERES (3-MCPD, 2-MCPD and Glicidil Ester)
- * MELAMINE/CYROMAZINE
- * BISPHENOL A
Nutritional analysis
- *ENERGY VALUE
- * FAT DETERMINED GRAVIMETRICALLY WITH PREVIOUS HYDROLYSIS
- *CARBOHYDRATES
- *TOTAL SUGARS
- *VOLUMETRICALLY CONTROLLED PROTEINS
- *SODIUM CHLORIDE-SALT
Other analysis
- ANALYSIS OF TOCOPHEROLS
- * TOTAL POLYPHENOLS
- * BIOPHENOLS, HYDROXYTYROSOL, TYROSOL AND OLEOCANTHAL
- RANCIMAT STABILITY
- * POLAR COMPOUNDS
- * MICROBIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
- *HIDDEN ACIDITY (% OLEIC ACID)
- PIROPHEOPHYTIN A
- 1,2- and 1,3- DIACYLGLYCEROLS
- * SQUALENE
- IND. REFRACTION
- IND. IODINE
- IND. SAPONIFICATION
- * OXIDIZED ACIDS
- * DENSITY (20ºC/WATER 20ºC)
- LOVIBOND COLOR INDEX