The laboratories of Nautilus form one of the vital centres of the company and are one of its most important assets, enabling it to independently provide analysis and support services to the principal research sectors: the environment, food and zoology and industry.
In this field of research, the technical personal, the chemists and biologists apply their experience in the study of diverse matrices:
- - water;
- - earth;
- - marine lake and river sediments;
- - biota;
- - milk and dairy farm industry derivatives;
- - oils and fats;
- - feed;
- - food preservatives.
The Nautilus laboratories are fully equipped for the conduction of chemical and microbiological analyses (food, water, sediments and other substances), physical and biological examinations (studies of plankton and benthos, micronutrient analysis, primary production, chlorophyll and degrading pigments, contaminators), sediment and granular analysis.
These diverse forms of analytical studies are applied in the following fields of research:
- - Assessment of areas of contaminated environments, both within the fields of the maritime
- coastline and within heavy industry;
- - Hygiene control of water suitable for human consumption (drinking water) and monitoring of purification systems;
- - Studies of marine ecosystems;
- - Studies and assessments of both surface and deep-water and their associated ecosystems;
- - Monitoring of water purification cycles;
- - Monitoring in industrial agricultural factories and within the fishery sector;
- - Hygiene control of nutrients for H.A.C.C.P certification.
The goal of Nautilus is to provide the best possible service for its clients. It achieves this through its continuous investment in training for its staff, as well as conducting a periodical revision of the instruments it has at its disposition .
Currently, the research laboratories of Nautilus have a range of avant-garde instruments, including:ICP optical |
HPLC |
Chromatography |
ICP-MS |
Gas Chromatography (FID-ECD-NPD) |
Bioluminometer ECOTOX |
Spectrophotometer A.A. |
GC-MS |
Microscope Stereomicroscope |
Spectrophotometer UV-VIS |
Purge and trap solids and water |
Floor Autoclave |
| Spectrophotometer FT-IR | Milestone Mineralizer | Mercury analyser FKV |
Spectrofluorometer |
TOC |
Gel Permeation |
This wide range of instruments ensures that the analytical results fully conform to the GPL code (Good Laboratory Practice).
The analytical methods followed by the laboratories fully conform to the methodology guidelines set out by the international governing bodies. In the field of environmental studies, the principals adhered to are as follows:
Water |
APAT, Standard Methods,UNICHIM,ASTM, USEPA,UNI-EN, ISTSAN |
Waste, mud, soils and solid remains |
IRSA-CNR, USEPA and official methods conforming to national legislation |
Sea water |
IRSA,APAT,ICRAM |
Sediments |
ICRAM and official methods conforming to national legislation |
Within the foodstuffs sector, the official guidelines are adhered to, as required by the relative legislations, the ISTSAN methodologies and the procedures implemented by the main international legislative bodies in the field of food supply.
The analytical protocols are rigorously tested and validated both internally and through participation within a circuit of other, external, laboratories.
