Biocide Testing
Long-term efficacy testing for biocide, disinfectant, antimicrobial surface, and treated textile claims.
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Affordable microbiology testing services.
RWL provides reliable, accurate testing for biocides, dishwashing liquids, laundry products, surface swabs, stability studies, sterility, bioburden, and customer-specific microbiology requirements.
Bioburden Testing
Used to check the microbial load in a product, raw materials, finished products, or during the manufacturing process.
Sterility Testing
Testing for medical devices labelled as sterile, including reusable medical equipment and commercially available sterile medical devices.
Surface Swab Testing
Surface swabs and air monitoring focused on hygiene, cleaning effectiveness, products, equipment, and premises.
Stability Testing
Stability and shelf-life testing support for disinfectants, biocides, dishwashing liquids, wipes, and antimicrobial product development.
Dishwashing and Laundry Testing
Dishwashing liquid testing, dishwasher sanitization support, laundry testing, textile testing, and bespoke method design.
Core service details
Bioburden, sterility, surface swab, stability, laundry, and dishwashing liquid testing.
Bioburden testing is used to check the microbial load in a product, and this test helps monitor microbial presence in raw materials, finished products, or during the manufacturing process. Testing is conducted according to USP 61 and ISO 11737-1:2006.
Sterility testing aims at medical devices labelled as sterile by manufacturers. It checks microbial presence in the product and supports product safety. Sterility testing follows procedures based on USP 71 or ISO 11737-2:1998.
RWL conducts surface swab testing on porous and non-porous surfaces, as well as air monitoring. Swab testing can help check cleaning performance, disinfection procedures, hygiene levels, and bacterial count levels in products, facilities, and public environments.
RWL supports stability testing and shelf-life questions for disinfectants, biocides, wipes, dishwashing liquids, laundry products, and other antimicrobial products where manufacturers need affordable, practical data.
RWL can support dishwashing liquid testing, dishwasher sanitization testing, laundry product testing, antimicrobial textile testing, and bespoke test design where a standard protocol does not fully match the product or customer requirement.
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Real World Labs provides affordable laboratory support for companies searching for biocide testing, dishwashing liquid testing, surface swab testing, stability testing, laundry testing, and sterility testing in Dunedin and across New Zealand.
Academic links
University of Otago
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Pletzer Lab
Microbiology and Immunology research group