LATU – Laboratorio Tecnológico del Uruguay

Montevideo, Uruguay

Accreditation self-declared (OUA)

National technology laboratory in Montevideo whose chemical metrology department runs proficiency testing rounds for food, dairy, grain, drinking water and effluent laboratories (chemistry and microbiology) and for calibration of weights, volumetric glassware, thermometers and other instruments.

Testing fields

  • Microbiology
  • Food & feed
  • Water
  • Environment, soil & air
  • Calibration & metrology

Schemes (15)

  • Área Microbiológica – Leche en polvo

    EA.MIC.077

    • Microbiology
    • Food & feed
    Sample type
    Milk powder
    Analytes
    Coagulase-positive Staphylococcus count, mesophilic aerobic count
  • Área Microbiológica – Producto cárnico (detección de Salmonella spp.)

    EA.MIC.078

    • Microbiology
    • Food & feed
    Sample type
    Meat product
    Analytes
    Salmonella spp. detection
  • Área Microbiológica – Producto cárnico (detección de Listeria monocytogenes)

    EA.MIC.087

    • Microbiology
    • Food & feed
    Sample type
    Meat product
    Analytes
    Listeria monocytogenes detection
  • Área Microbiológica – Agua potable

    EA.MIC.081

    • Microbiology
    • Water
    Sample type
    Drinking water
    Analytes
    Aerobic count, total and faecal coliforms
  • Área Microbiológica – Efluente

    EA.MIC.084

    • Microbiology
    • Environment, soil & air
    Sample type
    Effluent
    Analytes
    Total coliforms, faecal coliforms, E. coli
  • Área Química – Agua potable

    EA.AGUA.020

    • Water
    Sample type
    Drinking water
    Analytes
    Alkalinity, chlorides, conductivity, hardness, metals, nitrates, total dissolved solids, sulphates, pH
  • Área Química – Efluente

    EA.AGUA.021

    • Water
    • Environment, soil & air
    Sample type
    Effluent
    Analytes
    Metals, oils and greases, ammonium, BOD5, COD, nitrate, nitrite, total nitrogen, pH, solids, orthophosphate
  • Área Química – Leche en polvo entera

    EA.LAC.009

    • Food & feed
    Sample type
    Whole milk powder
    Analytes
    Moisture, fat, protein, solubility index, acidity, burnt particles
  • Área Química – Leche cruda

    EA.LAC.010

    • Food & feed
    Sample type
    Raw milk
    Analytes
    Fat, protein, dry extract, freezing point depression, somatic cells
  • Área Química – Trigo (deoxinivalenol)

    EA.TOX.007

    • Food & feed
    Sample type
    Wheat
    Analytes
    Deoxynivalenol (DON)
  • Área Química – Soja

    EA.SOJA.023

    • Food & feed
    Sample type
    Soybean
    Analytes
    Moisture, protein, physical quality
  • Área Química – Ecotoxicología

    EA.BIO.002

    • Environment, soil & air
    Sample type
    Aqueous solution; lyophilised green algae
    Analytes
    Toxicity with Vibrio fischeri, Daphnia magna, algae, Lactuca sativa; chlorophyll
  • Área Física – Pesas

    EA.MAS.07

    • Calibration & metrology
    Analytes
    Class F2 weights: 200 mg, 50 g, 500 g
  • Área Física – Material volumétrico

    EA.VOL.010

    • Calibration & metrology
    Analytes
    Calibration of 10 ml volumetric pipette and 50 ml volumetric flask
  • Área Física – Termohigrómetro

    EA.HUM.04

    • Calibration & metrology
    Analytes
    Temperature and relative humidity calibration

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Accreditation

Status
Accreditation self-declared
Accreditation body
OUA
Certificate number
PEA Nº 002

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Last updated 1 Nov 2026.

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