On June 26, 2025, Venture Center unveiled its Food, Feed & Nutrition Lab, set up with the support of Kemin Industries. This advanced testing facility opens doors for startups and industry to validate, refine, and elevate their products with reliable nutritional profiling and quality analysis. It’s a step towards making safer, high-quality food products a standard, not an exception, in India’s growing innovation ecosystem.
Around the world, ensuring food safety and quality is more than a regulatory requirement—it is central to public health, consumer trust, and sustainable growth in the food industry. As markets evolve and consumer expectations rise, there is a growing need for reliable, advanced testing infrastructure that supports safer, high-quality food reaching every table.
In this context, Venture Center is pleased to announce the launch of its Food, Feed & Nutrition (FFN) Lab, inaugurated on June 26, 2025, with the generous support of Kemin Industries.
This facility expands the ecosystem’s capacity to support safe, compliant, and high-quality food, feed, and nutrition products in India by providing accessible, advanced analytical services to startups and industry.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony was led by Dr. Suresh Kumar Rajaram, President of Kemin Industries, South Asia, along with Dr. Santosh Vyas, R&D Director, and Dr. Saravanan Sankaran, Director Monogastric Sales. The Kemin team engaged in discussions with Venture Center and FFN-focused startups, exploring opportunities to strengthen product quality and safety in the sector.
The open-access FFN Lab is equipped with state-of-the-art technology for compositional and purity assessments across raw materials and finished products. Key capabilities include:
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LCMS for pesticide residue and metabolite screening
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GCMS for fatty acid profiling
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HPLC for nutrient analysis
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Instruments for elemental, moisture, aflatoxin, and fiber analysis
These capabilities position Venture Center’s Analytical Services Department as a comprehensive partner for the food industry, offering support from nutritional profiling to advanced quality testing.
As India’s food ecosystem grows, facilities like the FFN Lab play a vital role in ensuring safety, building consumer trust, and enabling faster, compliant product development.
We look forward to collaborating with startups, researchers, and industry to advance food innovation and quality through this facility.