We’re an independent service laboratory for external quality control.
We analyse and evaluate food, food packaging, consumer products or hygiene products and their raw materials for substances or contaminants. We support you with a competent and innovative team focused on reaching solutions for your specific needs.
Our History
The Geesthacht Analytical Laboratory (GALAB) was founded in 1992 on the premises of the GKSS Research Centre and is now one of the leading providers of high-quality laboratory services in Germany.
Research in the field concerning the determination of organic tin and mercury compounds in the environment and in foodstuffs formed a solid basis for the foundation of the company. Today, GALAB is a world leader in the analysis of arsenic compounds.
Growth through innovation characterises the company in the years following its foundation. GALAB is one of the first private laboratories to focus on tandem mass spectrometry. The first fundamental methods for the determination of pharmaceuticals in the environment and food were researched and established.
Our high-tech laboratory building in Hamburg, which we moved into in 2014, is equipped with the latest equipment and technology, enabling us to provide fast and accurate analytical services to a wide range of industries. Dedicated to delivering reliable results and ensuring customer satisfaction, our team of highly skilled scientists and technicians is committed to excellence.
Today, numerous national and international customers rely on GALAB and its expertise. The certificates of our analysis are widely used to improve the tradability of products.
Management & Corporate Boards
Since 2014, GALAB has been located in Hamburg-Bergedorf, where it operates as an analytical laboratory from a state-of-the-art, self-designed building. With a staff of 220 incredibly competent and skilled employees, GALAB is independently owned and managed as well as financially autonomous. This enables the company to cater to the interests of its customers without any limitations or restrictions.
Our Managing Directors are committed to continuing the GALAB path of innovation, excellence and quality that has guided us throughout the many years of our existence.
An important milestone
Since 2006, GALAB has established itself as a major player in the field of pesticide analysis with the introduction of the innovative GALAB pesticide 500plus® multi-method. This measurement technique marks a decisive milestone for GALAB.
Today, the company’s expertise is indispensable in various aspects of consumer products. These include a wide range of consumer goods such as diapers, hygiene products, toys, clothing, packaging and, in particular, food products such as organic products and baby food.
The rapidly expanding market for organic products comes with high expectations for compliance and monitoring. GALAB places great emphasis on this aspect and has implemented a world-leading standard in analysis.
Corporate Philosophy
Responsibility for our Customers
Quality is Safety
Innovation Through Research
GALAB Biotechnology
Our Biotechnology department specialises in the biocatalysis of valuable poly-and oligosaccharides for a broad range of applications in the food and pharmaceutical industries.
GALAB International Services
Whatever the object of the analysis and wherever it is carried out, the GALAB standard is always guaranteed. Worldwide.
Our representatives around the world understand local market conditions and can efficiently support you with your specific requirements. Thanks to overcoming language barriers, we achieve higher customer retention with local clients.
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GALAB International
As an independent, internationally active service laboratory, GALAB has quickly become the leading player when it comes to investigations of contaminants and residues in food, food packaging, consumer products, baby and femcare products as well as sanitary products and their raw materials along the entire supply chain - while offering external quality control with experience since 1992. Although based in Hamburg GALAB has subsidiaries in Peru, Singapore, Turkey, Spain, Ukraine and China, with personal representatives on the ground in the Philippines and Sri Lanka
GALAB - where career and innovation meet
GALAB is an attractive employer and highly sought after by employees. As our motto is social responsibility, we focus our attention on our people.
Corporate News
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A seminar for the SEFIRO GROUP
GALAB is not only an analytical laboratory, but also a company that provides apprenticeships. We train our own apprentices in the large and important world of laboratory analysis, with our Managing Director, Jürgen Kuballa, personally holding the lectures. This time, ...
A Tale of Gravel and Birds
When we built our high-tech building in Hamburg-Bergedorf in 2014, we wanted to supply it with as much renewable energy as possible. That’s why we wanted to utilise every possible area of our roof for solar panels, just as we ...
We proudly announce our attendance at BIOFACH 2024
Join us at the forefront of the world’s leading organic trade fair, taking place in Nuremberg, Germany from February 13-16. Embark on a four-day journey of innovation, exploration and celebration of the organic sector.
Announcing our new strategic cooperation with ITC Labs in India
We are thrilled to share exciting news with our valued customers operating in India – GALAB Laboratories is embarking on a strategic cooperation with Interstellar Testing Centre Pvt Ltd (ITC Labs), a leading player in the Indian testing and inspection ...
GALAB Laboratories GmbH at the OUTLOOK 2023 Conference
We participated in the OUTLOOK 2023 Conference in Algarve, Portugal. The conference, the world’s leading event for nonwovens in the hygiene, personal care, and wet wipes sectors, provided a platform for industry experts to exchange ideas and discuss the future ...
GALAB hosted the GewerbeKlima.VorOrt Roadshow
As a proud member of the Umweltpartnerschaft Hamburg, the Environmental Partnership of the City of Hamburg for the promotion of voluntary corporate environmental protection, we are always happy to support their activities. For this reason, we have made our property ...
