Thanks to the work team made up of two qualified operators, two technicians, a specialized professional and a teacher, the laboratory carries out research, teaching and extension activities. It has several work areas, infrastructure and equipment for the development of proximal analysis, physicochemical indexes of food quality, instrumental and sensory-instrumental analysis. It has an area for receiving samples, washing material and storing reagents, as support areas.
The laboratory provides analytical services for academic and research purposes to internal and external users. In addition, it supports subjects and formative research work of the Universidad Nacional in food science and technology.
It is part of the laboratories that benefited from the support of the National Metrology Institute (INM) in the Colombia Mide project, through which the quality management system was updated and improved under the guidelines of ISO 17025:2017, with which it seeks to join the National Laboratory Network and expand the scope of service provision. The laboratory is currently developing a special cooperation agreement between the Instituto Nacional de Metrología - INM and the Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de Alimentos - ICTA Universidad Nacional de Cololmbia - UNAL, which seeks to generate analysis guides for the determination of quality parameters in foods of agroindustrial importance in Colombia, especially total fat content in Hass avocados.