AGQ Labs

At Natural Products Expo West, most brands, manufacturers, importers, and growers are asking the same questions:

Are my raw ingredients safe?

Is my finished product compliant?

Can I trust my suppliers?

Will my product pass retailer, EPA, FDA, USDA Organic, and California Proposition 65 requirements?

AGQ Labs USA exists to answer those questions with defensible data.

We are an ISO-17025 accredited analytical laboratory specializing in food, beverage, supplements, and agricultural products. We help companies prevent problems before they become violations, recalls, detentions, or lawsuits by building preventative testing programs at the raw ingredient, production, and finished product level.

If you stop by our booth, here is how we can help you.

Proposition 65 and Heavy Metal Compliance

Many brands at Expo West sell into California without realizing how aggressive Proposition 65 enforcement has become. Our lab provides ultra low detection heavy metal testing down to 0.01 ppm with arsenic speciation, expanded metals panels, and processing contaminant analysis such as acrylamide. We help brands build raw ingredient testing programs that prevent heavy metals from ever reaching finished products.

Pesticide Residue Testing and Global MRL Compliance

For brands sourcing fruits, vegetables, herbs, spices, grains, teas, botanicals, or supplements, pesticide residue testing is critical for retailer approval, export, organic confirmation, and supplier verification. AGQ screens over 1,000 active ingredients with detection limits down to 0.01 ppm and provides MRL summaries across countries so you immediately know if your product is compliant for global trade.

USDA Organic Confirmation Testing

Many organic brands assume their product is compliant because it is certified. Retailers and regulators do not assume, they test. Our organic confirmation packages screen 605 compounds, cover USDA banned substances, include Ethephon and Glyphosate, and verify organic integrity at trace levels. This is critical for importers, private label brands, and processors handling both organic and conventional products.

Nutritional Labeling and FDA NLEA Compliance

If you are launching a new product, reformulating, or updating labels, we provide complete nutritional analysis for FDA compliant Nutrition Facts panels including macronutrients, vitamins, minerals, sugars, fatty acids, and expanded nutritional profiles.

FDA Detention and Import Support

Importers at Expo West often have products held at port due to pesticide or heavy metal concerns. AGQ provides full FDA detention management including sampling, testing, ITACS submission, and regulatory support to get products released quickly and correctly.

Crop Nutritional Monitoring and Agronomy Support

For growers and vertically integrated brands, our Crop Nutritional Monitoring program helps optimize soil, water, plant tissue, and fertigation programs to increase yield, quality, and sustainability while reducing fertilizer waste and environmental impact. This connects field practices directly to residue and contaminant outcomes in finished food products.

Group Account Discounts for Multi Entity Operations

If you manage multiple farms, packing houses, processors, or export facilities, our Group Account Program aggregates testing volume to reduce cost by 20 to 30 percent while keeping each entity’s data and billing completely independent. This is ideal for grower networks, cooperatives, and vertically integrated supply chains.

BeSafer Data Platform

All clients gain access to BeSafer, our online and mobile platform where you can track samples in real time, review exceedances, compare MRLs by country, analyze trends, and make data driven decisions across your supply chain. This is especially valuable for quality managers and compliance teams.

If you are attending Expo West and you manufacture, import, grow, process, pack, or sell natural food products, AGQ Labs USA can help you:

Prevent Proposition 65 violations before they happen

Verify supplier and raw ingredient safety

Confirm organic integrity

Ensure pesticide and heavy metal compliance for global markets

Build defensible data for retailers, regulators, and auditors