DUSHANBE, January 19, 2009, Asia-Plus  -- A new food analysis and testing laboratory, equipped with the atomic-absorption spectrometer Kvant-2A, will be opened at Tojikstandart (state agency for standardization, metrology, certification and trade inspection) soon, a source at Tojikstandart said in an interview with Asia-Plus.

The device will be used for analyzing and testing food products and raw materials used for production of them.  “Kvant-2A is the high-precision instrument in this field and allow determining practically all periodic table’s elements,” the source said, noting that atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) is an elemental analysis technique for dissolved samples.

The source at Tojikstandart noted that the process of equipment of the microbiological lab that tests food products was completed last year and modern technology Sputnik SKS-99 had been purchased for analysis of alcohol drinks.