The Hi – tech laboratory functions with High technology laboratory equipment or instruments (Hi performance liquid chromatography and gas chromatography instruments) which are one of highly expensive instruments in Sri Lanka.
The following can be mentioned as the useful features of the laboratories and also the equipment.
· Identifying and determining the quantity of nutritional components which are traceable amounts in the foods, for example detailed names and quantities of vitamins, sugar and also amino acids. This method will pave way to make a list of the detailed nutritional data.
· This work is accomplished with the usage of High performance liquid chromatography equipment.
A detailed study of the components in alcohol and fatty acids is also carried out in this laboratory as a work. The equipment gas chromatography is used for this study.
