Commercial services

Commercial services colleagues offer expertise and equipment to help our research, government and industry partners achieve their goals.

Our staff are experts in analysis, and our range of laboratories at St Lucia and Gatton house equipment that’s often not available in industry.

Our academics and technical colleagues can provide consultation and opinion on diverse areas within the animal, food and fibre industries.

Scientific Services

Our Scientific Services team offers analytical chemistry services for UQ colleagues and external clients at our Gatton and St Lucia campuses.

We offer options for standard/routine analyses or conducting method development on non-standard analysis.

Sample matrices often received include soils, plants, water, animal/biological tissues and fluids, and food materials. Other sample types are not usually restricted, so please specify on enquiry.

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Sample submissions

In person: please ensure you fill in and sign your submission form on arrival:

UQ St Lucia contactless sample submissions: Hartley Teakle Building (Building 83), North wing, Level 1, Room N105
UQ Gatton contactless sample submissions: TBA after enquiry submission.

By courier: address on application/enquiry.

Contact us

For more information, email our Scientific Services team at agfs.scientific.services@uq.edu.au

Alternatively, contact one of our staff members:

Scientific Manager: Zofia Ostatek-Boczynski
UQ St Lucia: David Appleton and Stephen Appleton
UQ Gatton: Dr Hung Hong

Food Sensory Laboratory

The Food Sensory Laboratory is a teaching, research, training and development unit.

We design and implement analytical sensory tests, including difference tests, threshold tests and descriptive sensory analysis.

We can also characterise the rheological and textural properties of test products.

The facility is well-suited for controlled sensory evaluation of food and beverages by trained and semi-trained panels.

It houses a panel-tasting area with five individual tasting booths equipped with computer for data collection using Compusense® five software.

The tasting area features lighting of variable intensity and colour and controlled air temperature and flow.

A kitchen and conference room adjoin the tasting area for sample preparation and panel training.

Contact us

For more information, contact Dr Sangeeta Prakash.

Centre for Spray Technology Application Research and Training

The Centre for Spray Technology Application Research and Training (C-START) is an internationally recognised scientific research, training and consultancy group.

We’re based at UQ Gatton and enjoy a long history of assisting governments and industry.

We achieve best practice in balancing crop protection and production with protection of the environment.

Our research areas include:

particle size and velocity measurement
flow field assessments
spray drift studies
spray drift modelling
droplet spectrum analysis
field and laboratory studies
pesticide exposure studies
liquid physical properties and evaporation.

Our world-class specialist facilities include:

Wind Tunnel Research Facility
Dantec Phase Doppler Analyser (PDA)
Oxford Lasers Imaging System
laser diffraction particle sizers (Sympatec, Malvern)
field equipment.

Contact us

For more information, email us at agriculture@enquire.uq.edu.au.

Consultation and opinion

Our academics and technical experts can provide professional advice and comment on a diverse range of areas within the animal, food and fibre industries.

We welcome consultation and collaboration with industry partners and government on research and development ventures, and our expertise across a broad range of disciplines ensures high-quality outcomes.

We provide professional advice on:

literature reviews
management plans
scoping studies
business strategy and policy development
development of fact sheets, guides, manuals and tools
survey design
viability of new technologies.

We provide expert, independent and impartial opinion for:

review of facts
analysis
written reports
litigation and court cases.

Contact us

For more information, email us at agriculture@enquire.uq.edu.au.