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  • Certified Reference Materials
    NMI provides certified reference material (CRMs) for chemical, sports, forensic, therapeutic, veterinary, environmental, food, health, gas and nutritional supplement applications. >
  • Chemical Proficiency Testing
    NMI's chemical proficiency testing program assesses laboratory test methods and quality assurance programs.
  • Consultancies and Contract Research
    NMI is able to provide measurement consultancies and to undertake contract research projects.
  • Deposit Biological Materials for Patents
    Find out how to deposit biological materials for the purposes of patent procedure. NMI has been an international depositary authority under the Budapest Treaty since 1988.
  • Drugs in Sport Analysis
    NMI's scientists are helping to conduct the sports drug testing program.
  • Environmental Testing
    NMI provides a broad range of NATA-accredited analytical services required by organisations to meet both environmental compliance and commercial requirements.
  • Food Testing
    NMI offers a comprehensive range of analyses on raw and processed food and beverages, including ingredients and GM commodities. Our food chemistry and food microbiology services include food safety, food composition and allergen detection.
  • Forensic Drug Analysis
    NMI conducts testing and profiling of illicit drugs to provide strategic and tactical intelligence to law enforcement agencies.
  • Genotype Analysis
    NMI uses the latest digitalmicrofluidic PCR technology to offer DNA genotyping analysis.
  • NMI Analytical Services moves to paperless reporting and invoicing
    NMI Analytical Services is moving the emphasis from ‘paperless on request’ to only ‘hardcopy on request’, with the aim to discontinue hardcopies.  
  • Pattern Approval
    Pattern approval is the process whereby an impartial body examines the design of an instrument prototype against a publishes national standard.
  • Pharmaceutical Analysis
    NMI is able to conduct a wide range of chemical and microbiological testing including the analysis of metals in pharmaceutical products.
  • Physical Metrology Calibration and Testing
    NMI's calibration and testing services are the highest accuracy measurements available in Australia and they provide traceability to SI units of measurement.
  • Reference Gas Mixtures
    NMI produces a range of reference gas mixtures, is able to analyse gases and aerosols, and conducts gas proficiency testing studies.
  • Safety Data Sheets
    Safety Data Sheets for preservatives provided in water sample collection bottles.
  • Stockfeed and Fishmeal Testing
    Monitoring for the presence of animal material in stockfeed is an important risk management strategy designed to maintain Australia's low risk status for bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
  • Time and Frequency Dissemination Service
    NMI provides GPS time-transfer system, GPS integrity monitoring, NTP servers, telephone dialup service for synchronising computers and ABC TV-sync pulse monitoring in Sydney.
  • Toxic Metals in Toys
    NMI provides a testing service which is concerned with the migration of toxic metals in toys.
  • Trade Measurement Laboratory Services
    NMI provides trade measurement calibration and certification testing services.
  • Training and Assessment
    NMI runs training and assessments in biological, chemical, physical and legal metrology.