Michigan-based Neogen Corporation has acquired Sterling Test House, a food testing laboratory located in Cochin in India’s southwest state of Kerala, and which will now act as a base for the company’s new operations in India. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Incorporated in 1990, Sterling’s business has grown to include virtually all of the food safety and water quality testing for major hotels and restaurants in its home region, as well as safety and quality analysis for the country’s expanding nutraceutical market, and growing food export businesses reports CNN Money.
“Sterling’s excellent reputation and 25-year history of providing exceptional service to the food and nutraceutical industries align perfectly with our goal of establishing a solid presence in India,” said Dr. Jason Lilly, Neogen’s vice president of corporate development. “India’s rapidly expanding middle class is increasingly demanding more, higher quality foods — which is an exact match with Neogen’s mission,” he added.
