Soyabeans Inspection and Testing Services

Global Soybean Inspection and Laboratory Services

Intertek provides Soya Bean inspection and testing services for soybean cargo shipments. Trained inspectors and laboratory personnel measure soybean quality and quantity per standards. Soya Bean inspection services are available at the loading and discharge ports. Intertek operates Soya Bean-quality testing laboratories equipped with modern technology along with a well-qualified and experienced team of inspectors.

Intertek works with major Soya Bean exporters, importers, international traders and buyers. Intertek soyabean inspection services are available on a global basis, including major markets and ports in nations like Brazil (Brasil), China, Egypt, Mexico, Canada, the USA, Argentina, Australia and many other countries. Intertek provides daily update reports via e-mail. Once the soybean cargo inspection and testing have finished, our clients will receive the certification immediately.

Intertek Soybean Inspection and Testing Services include:

Intertek Soya Bean Inspection Services include:

General Inspection of Soybean Cargo:

• Check job assignment details: Shipper, Commodities, Specification, Weight, Packing, Mark, Quantity, - Vessel’s Name, Destination, Inspection date, last cargo shipped in holds, etc.
• Visual inspection for live insects, poisonous seeds and husks (ex: caster-oil seeds)
• Soya Bean quality is checked before loading
• Checked for worms, insects, foreign matter
• Monitor Cargo Handling Protocols for Identity Preserved Soya Bean
• Soya Bean quality is checked by representative samples
• Digital photos are taken during the course of inspection

Sampling of Soya Bean Cargo Loading:

• Sampling is taken by methods conforming to GAFTA 124
• The weigh scale is checked before packing with Standard Weight
• Pre-Loading Samples are taken, packed and sealed before loading
• Loading Samples are taken
• Reference samples are taken
• Lab Analysis samples are taken for physical and chemical analysis in the laboratory
• Composite Sample mixing is taken for all samples of each day of loading
• Obtain representative probe samples from barges, trucks, and railcars
• Probe-A-Vac samples can be obtained from vessel cargo holds up to 75’-0” in depth
  

Soya Bean Quality Testing:

Soya Bean quality is based on lab tests as follows:

• Test Weight
• Moisture
• Foreign Material
• Broken Beans
• Total Damaged beans
• Heat Damaged beans
• Soybeans of other colors
• Protein
• Oil Content
• Poisonous Seed
• GMO
• China Special Requirements:
  • TESTS OF: Tobacco ringspot virus; Cuscuta spp; Sorghum halepense (l) pers; Sorghum almum parody; Tomato ringspot virus; Callosobruchus analis (fabricius); phytophthora megasperma drechsl f. sp glycinea kuan & Erwin; Callosobruchus phaseoli (gyllenhall); Southern bean mosaic virus and Arabis mosaic virus.
    CHEMICAL RESIDUES TESTS OF: Arsenic; Mercuric; Phosphides; Cyanides; Malathion; Ethylene and Debromide (EDB).
  • VETERINARY TESTS OF: Aldrin; BHC; Canfecloro; DDT; Dieldrina; Endosulfan; Endrina; Heptacloro+epoxido; Lindane and Methoxychor.

Other Soya Bean Inspection Services:

• Warehouse Inspection
• Weighing, Sampling & Testing
• Cargo Hatch & Hold Inspection
• Draft Survey
• Loading / Discharging Superintending
• F.O.G (Full Outturn Guarantee of Weight)
  - Combined Cover (CC = FOG + Cargo Marine Insurance)
• Grading on site at inland locations
• Corporate Social Responsability
• Crop surveys and Traceability
• HACCP, GAP, GMP and others