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 visit from the Senator of Hamburg
GALAB had the honour of welcoming Hamburg’s Senator for Economics and Innovation, Dr. Melanie Leonhard, together with Cornelia Schmidt-Hoffmann, District Director of Bergedorf. They were welcomed at the entrance to our laboratory by our CEO, Eckard Jantzen, and Ulf-Peter Busse, ...
With Flying Colors
At GALAB, we are proud to announce that one of our apprentices, Jakob Landbeck, has been recognised by the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce as the best chemical laboratory assistant apprentice in Hamburg for 2024. This incredible achievement is a testament ...
Welcoming our new apprentices of 2024
We are thrilled to introduce some of our newest colleagues: Sandro, Jule, and Ilhem. They are part of the new group of apprentices who have joined us this year. This year is particularly special as it includes six laboratory technicians, ...
We are a proud partner of the BNN fruit and vegetable monitoring programme
The Bundesverband Naturkost Naturwaren e.V. (BNN) is a German interest group representing producers and retailers of organic food products. It has around 180 member companies, including manufacturers, wholesalers, independent retailers and chain retailers. Its core values are based on the ...
Like pink lightning bolts
GALAB has participated in this year’s HafenCity Run. One of Hamburg’s biggest charity runs with over 17,000 participants and more than 500 teams. It goes 4.5 kilometres through the “HafenCity” quarter in the centre of Hamburg. The run has become ...
Our path to even more solar energy is paved
As we reported in a previous blog post, we have been working for about ten years to install solar cells on our roof to promote sustainable energy. We already generate solar energy from the roof of our outside storage building ...
