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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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 ...
GALAB participates in the Girls’Day and Boys’Day event
You can get children excited about STEM topics at a very young age, even if it’s just with simple science experiments. GALAB is proud of its continuous support in promoting young people’s interest in the STEM fields. That’s why GALAB ...
GALAB Laboratories, a Green Company
Winning the “Project of the Year 2019” award from Renewable Energies Hamburg (EEHH) for its ice storage project, which resulted in a saving of more than 20,562 kilograms of CO2, equivalent to planting 613,74 trees, and providing charging stations for ...
GALAB cooperates with the Nachwuchscampus
To encourage an interest in STEM professions among middle and high school students, Hamburg University of Technology (TuHH) has launched the “NachwuchsCampus” project. Within the framework of this cooperative project between the TuHH, various companies from the natural sciences and ...
Galab Laboratories at INDEX™20
The INDEX™20 took place from 19-22 October 2021 in Geneva, Switzerland. Four days full of great impressions, conversations and new contacts from the nonwovens industry. Our Product Testing team at GALAB is proud of its successful participation and looks forward ...
Successful management workshops at GALAB
We are grateful for the successful management workshops at GALAB for operational management. It is well known that GALAB pay a specific attention to education and training and even hires PhD students to promote the future of the younger generations. ... 