Southern African Grain Laboratory (SAGL)
Non-profit grain testing laboratory in Pretoria that runs proficiency testing schemes for grain, oilseed and milling laboratories, covering maize, maize meal, wheat and flour, soybeans and soybean meal, sunflower seed and cake, flour colour, and annual pre-harvest grading schemes.
Testing fields
- Food & feed
Schemes (10)
Maize Meal Quality Proficiency Testing Scheme
- Food & feed
- Sample type
- Super / special maize meal
- Analytes
- Speck count, particle size, moisture, fat, fibre, protein, ash, whiteness index
- Rounds/year
- 4
Maize Grading Proficiency Testing Scheme
- Food & feed
- Sample type
- White / yellow maize
- Analytes
- RSA maize grading
- Rounds/year
- 4
Annual Pre-Harvest Maize Grading Proficiency Testing Scheme
- Food & feed
- Sample type
- Maize
- Analytes
- RSA maize grading
- Rounds/year
- 1
Annual Pre-Harvest Soybean Grading Proficiency Testing Scheme
- Food & feed
- Sample type
- Soybeans
- Analytes
- RSA soybean grading
- Rounds/year
- 1
Soybean Quality and Soybean Meal Proficiency Testing Scheme
- Food & feed
- Sample type
- Soybeans and soybean meal
- Analytes
- Grading, moisture, fat, fibre, protein, ash; meal: cystine, lysine, KOH protein solubility, PDI, TIA, urease activity
- Rounds/year
- 4
Wheat & Flour Proficiency Testing Scheme
- Food & feed
- Sample type
- Whole wheat, white and brown bread flour
- Analytes
- Moisture, colour, falling number, protein, ash, starch damage, gluten, farinograph, alveograph, extensigraph, mixograph, hectolitre mass, bran content
- Rounds/year
- 4
Wheat Grading Proficiency Testing Scheme
- Food & feed
- Sample type
- Whole wheat
- Analytes
- RSA wheat grading
- Rounds/year
- 4
Konica Minolta Dry Colour Proficiency Testing Scheme
- Food & feed
- Sample type
- White bread flour and cake flour
- Analytes
- Dry colour (Konica Minolta)
- Rounds/year
- 6
Annual Pre-Harvest Sunflower Proficiency Testing Scheme
- Food & feed
- Sample type
- Sunflower seed
- Analytes
- RSA sunflower grading
- Rounds/year
- 1
Sunflower Quality and Sunflower Cake Proficiency Testing Scheme
- Food & feed
- Sample type
- Sunflower seed and sunflower cake
- Analytes
- Crude fat, moisture; cake: crude fibre, crude fat, crude protein, moisture
- Rounds/year
- 4
| Scheme | Testing fields | Sample type | Analytes | Rounds/yr | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maize Meal Quality Proficiency Testing Scheme |
| Super / special maize meal | Speck count, particle size, moisture, fat, fibre, protein, ash, whiteness index | 4 | |
| Maize Grading Proficiency Testing Scheme |
| White / yellow maize | RSA maize grading | 4 | |
| Annual Pre-Harvest Maize Grading Proficiency Testing Scheme |
| Maize | RSA maize grading | 1 | |
| Annual Pre-Harvest Soybean Grading Proficiency Testing Scheme |
| Soybeans | RSA soybean grading | 1 | |
| Soybean Quality and Soybean Meal Proficiency Testing Scheme |
| Soybeans and soybean meal | Grading, moisture, fat, fibre, protein, ash; meal: cystine, lysine, KOH protein solubility, PDI, TIA, urease activity | 4 | |
| Wheat & Flour Proficiency Testing Scheme |
| Whole wheat, white and brown bread flour | Moisture, colour, falling number, protein, ash, starch damage, gluten, farinograph, alveograph, extensigraph, mixograph, hectolitre mass, bran content | 4 | |
| Wheat Grading Proficiency Testing Scheme |
| Whole wheat | RSA wheat grading | 4 | |
| Konica Minolta Dry Colour Proficiency Testing Scheme |
| White bread flour and cake flour | Dry colour (Konica Minolta) | 6 | |
| Annual Pre-Harvest Sunflower Proficiency Testing Scheme |
| Sunflower seed | RSA sunflower grading | 1 | |
| Sunflower Quality and Sunflower Cake Proficiency Testing Scheme |
| Sunflower seed and sunflower cake | Crude fat, moisture; cake: crude fibre, crude fat, crude protein, moisture | 4 |
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About this listing
Compiled from Southern African Grain Laboratory (SAGL)'s own published information or sent in by the provider, and reviewed by EqasOnline. Check scheme details, fees and dates with the provider before you enrol. 10 schemes listed here.
Last updated 29 Oct 2026.
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