At Sensient, we test in-house, but also request micro testing from all of our vendors. Because testing should already have been completed and passed, we should never see a failure at our facility, but we double check when each shipment arrives. The industry standard for microbiological testing includes screening for the following substances:
Sensient conducts the outlined standard tests and analyzes overall risk to determine additional screening targets. All screening methods are provided by the EPA through either the FDA’s Bacteriological Analytical Manual (BAM) or the United States Pharmacopeia (USP).


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