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Good Laboratory Practices Program

The Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) Program provides processing data and fractions from raw agricultural commodities to agrichemical company clients while simulating commercial processing methods and operating under EPA and FDA Good Laboratory Practice regulations.

Available Services
Raw agricultural commodity processing for:
  • Alfalfa
  • Apple
  • Barley
  • Buckwheat
  • Canola
  • Citrus
  • Corn
  • Cotton
  • Grain Sorghum
  • Oat
  • Olive
  • Peanut
  • Potato
  • Rice
  • Sesame Seed
  • Soybean
  • Squash
  • Sugar Beet
  • Sugar Cane
  • Sunflower
  • Sweet Corn
  • Tomato
  • Wheat

Quality Assurance
Our independent quality assurance (QA) unit monitors studies to ensure compliance with GLP regulations, client specifications and standard operating procedures in areas of commodity processing and proximate analysis.

Facilities and Equipment
Scaled down and fabricated equipment used to process limited quantities of raw commodities in ways comparable to commercial methods. In addition, development of alternative processing methods utilizing limited commodity quantities.

Staff
A professionally-trained group with more than 50 years of GLP processing experience with the Texas A&M University System.

 

For More Information

Dr. Richard Clough

Interim Head, Good Laboratory Practices Program
Head, Extraction & Protein Technologies Program
Food Protein R&D Center
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-2746
Phone: (979) 862-2262
Fax: (979) 845-2744
E-mail: rclough@tamu.edu 


Mian Nadeem Riaz, Ph.D.
Director, The Food Protein R&D Center
Head, Extrusion Technology Program
Graduate Faculty, Food Science & Technology Program
Food Protein Research & Development Center
Cater-Mattil Hall, 373 Olsen Boulevard
College Station, Texas 77843-2476
Telephone: (979) 845-2774
Fax: (979) 845-2744
E-mail: mnriaz@tamu.edu