Food Testing

Hill Labs provides the food and drink industries with a complete range of laboratory food testing and analysis to ensure safety, quality and compliance for manufacturers and consumers. Our dedicated teams can offer microbiological, chemical and nutritional testing solutions and our scientists have many years of experience developing and validating methods specific to testing food samples. Our Client Service Managers work closely with our clients to understand their specific requirements and ensure that our food tests meet their needs.

Aquaculture and Fish

Hill Labs is a RLP accredited laboratory with a wide range of tests to support the fishing and aquaculture industries.

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Cereal and Grain

Hill Labs provides an extensive array of testing services for the analysis of grains and cereals.

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Fruit and Vegetable

Fast and accurate analytical chemistry, nutritional chemistry and microbiological testing.

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Meat

Hill Labs provides a diverse range of meat tests. Our methods are accredited for use in testing raw material and finished products and we use the latest technologies.

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Food Pesticide Residues

We have a dedicated food testing division who can test for over 600 different pesticide residues in a wide food products.

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Processed Food

Hill Labs provides accredited methods for pesticides, heavy metals, nutritional information, allergen and microbiological testing in processed foods

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Also needing inspection & certification?

We offer customers greater choice and improved efficiency by integrating specialist auditing services with industry‑leading laboratory food testing. This enables us to provide New Zealand businesses with a seamless, end‑to‑end partner for testing, inspection and certification.

Whether you're meeting regulatory obligations, maintaining compliance, or demonstrating quality to your customers, our team is here to support you.

Learn about our food manufacturing services

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Our team of testing experts has meticulously crafted these documents to offer recommendations tailored to your testing requirements.

Hill News August 2026 - Update from our MD, Dr Jonno Hill

As I write this, we are finishing the clean up after a complex and high-stakes piece of work which was delivered over the weekend – an upgrade to the power supply at our largest lab, located in Hamilton. This has been months in the planning, and included a full power shut down to the site, with generators used to keep essential operations running until the power was restored.

27 Aug 2026

From the Desk of Peter Lord – CEO

It has been a busy and productive year for Hill Labs, with several important milestones that reflect our ongoing commitment to supporting customers with reliable, responsive and innovative laboratory services. One of the highlights has been the successful establishment of our raw milk testing service from June. As the dairy season builds, sample numbers are now picking up, and it is encouraging to see this new capability already supporting the sector.

27 Aug 2026

NZIFST – Looking to the Future!

Hill Labs was pleased to attend the New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology (NZIFST) Conference again this year - an event that brings together a diverse group, including students, scientists, food technologists and new product developers from across the food sector.

27 Aug 2026

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What our customers have to say

"We've always found them to be responsive in getting results back and giving advice on problems we might be facing."

Andrew Hutchinson, Technical Manager, Turners & Growers

"We strongly recommend Hill Labs as a sound testing service provider to the honey industry."

Nick Walker, Technical Manager, Egmont Honey

"Their sample registration system has made things simple and seamless - collect, scan and send!"