Chemistry section

Head of the Unit – Inga Jarmalaite

Chemistry section performs the following analysis according to the programmes approved by the State Food and Veterinary Service:
-Control of residues in animal products;
-Analysis of imported foodstuffs, fruit and vegetables;
-Since 2002 - the Programme for monitoring of food contamination;
-The programme for monitoring of dioxins, dioxin like and polychlorinated biphenyls. State programme for monitoring of feedstuffs defines suitability of feedstuffs for animals;
-Participation, together with public enterprise „Pieno tyrimai" and State Food and Veterinary Service, in the Programme for Prevention of Chloramphenicol;
-Analysis of self-control of enterprises. Department also performs chemical tests on composition of foodstuffs and evaluation of suitability of foodstuffs for people. The following products are tested in the department: meat, fish, milk, milk powder, eggs, fruit, nuts, mushrooms, grain, animal and vegetable fat, drinking water, beverages and alcohol drinks, honey, feedstuffs and their products and other food and feeding products. 

While fulfilling the state quality control of food, animal and plant products, the section analyses not only the products grown and produced in Lithuania, but also the products imported from the European Union and third countries.

 Every year new test methods are elaborated and accredited in the Chemistry Section. Qualified specialists ensure high quality, reliable and precise test results due to the existing modern and expensive testing equipment providing for execution of various complex tests. The laboratory is equipped with gas chromatographs, gas chromatographs with mass spectrometers, liquid chromatographs with mass spectrometers, the mass spectrometer of the inductively coupled plasma, gas chromatograph with high resolution the mass spectrometric system, and other devices. The Chemistry section is unique among other Lithuanian laboratories for its technical equipment, the range of research and complexity.

In order to improve and modernise the research and to accelerate its performance, employees of the department are constantly observing world news in the sphere of chemical processes and research. Young and ambitious people hope to further remain among the leaders of the Lithuanian chemical analytical laboratories. The section is permanently supplemented with complex equipment and devices, and develops new types of research. Each year experts of the German Accreditation Service and auditors from Russia carry out and positively evaluate the department‘s activity. Auditors of the European Union verify implementation of directives of separate spheres pursuant to the envisaged plan.