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Laboratorio Analítico Agro Industrial (LAAI) is Uruguay's largest national laboratory dedicated to quality evaluation and control, offering a comprehensive suite of chemical, physical, and microbiological analyses across the agricultural, food, environmental, and industrial sectors. Founded on a mission to serve Uruguay's productive economy, LAAI provides analytical services spanning the entire supply chain — from raw primary production inputs such as soils, seeds, and fertilizers through to finished industrialized food products and chemical commodities. The laboratory's deep technical scope and national geographic coverage make it a central reference institution for businesses, producers, and exporters requiring reliable, accredited analytical data anywhere in Uruguay. LAAI offers a full spectrum of testing services across an exceptionally wide range of sample matrices. The laboratory evaluates food products of all kinds under its food safety (inocuidad alimentaria) program, assessing microbiological safety, chemical contaminants, nutritional composition, and physical properties. Agricultural matrices routinely analyzed include grains, animal feed rations (raciones), silage (silos), pastures, leaf material, seeds, soils, agrochemicals, and fertilizers — covering the critical inputs and outputs of Uruguay's dominant agricultural sector. Water and industrial effluents are also analyzed, providing environmental compliance services to agricultural and industrial operators requiring regulatory monitoring data. A strategically important expansion of LAAI's analytical portfolio is its dedicated program for the analysis of cannabis and hemp flower (inflorescencias) and extracts. These services cover the chemical composition of raw cannabis flower and processed extract matrices, serving licensed producers and processors operating within Uruguay's regulated cannabis framework. This capability is underpinned by the laboratory's investment in a new Triple Quad LC-MS/MS system from AB Sciex, one of the industry's most advanced liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry platforms, which enables highly sensitive simultaneous detection of cannabinoids, residues, and trace contaminants at parts-per-billion and parts-per-trillion concentrations. The AB Sciex Triple Quad LC-MS/MS platform substantially enhances LAAI's capacity for multi-residue pesticide and agrochemical analysis, veterinary drug residue testing, mycotoxin determination, and trace contaminant quantification across all food and agricultural matrices. Operating at this sensitivity level, the system meets the analytical thresholds demanded by both Uruguayan domestic regulatory authorities and the international markets to which Uruguayan agricultural commodities are exported. This instrumentation complements the laboratory's established physical chemistry and microbiological infrastructure, giving LAAI a genuinely multi-disciplinary analytical capability managed under a single integrated quality system. LAAI operates under a Quality Management System certified to ISO 9001:2015 and holds accreditations under ISO/IEC 17025:2017 — the international standard for testing and calibration laboratory competence — across a broad range of national and international schemes. The laboratory emphasizes participation in international interlaboratory proficiency testing programs, which provide independent external verification of analytical performance and result traceability. This combination of quality certifications, formal accreditations, and ongoing proficiency participation gives clients high confidence in the accuracy, repeatability, and international comparability of LAAI's reported results. LAAI operates from three strategically positioned facilities distributed across Uruguay to ensure broad coverage of the country's major productive agricultural regions. The central laboratory (Laboratorio Central) is located in Paysandú in the northwest of Uruguay (Route 90, Km 5; GPS -32.3239, -58.0464), serving the important agricultural zones of the western Litoral. A second laboratory operates in Durazno in the country's interior (Route 5, Km 177; GPS -33.4374, -56.4887), and a third is established in Santa Lucía in southern Uruguay (Route 11, Km 87.5; GPS -34.4661, -56.3683), close to the Montevideo metropolitan production hinterland. A coordinated logistics network links all three sites, allowing samples to be received and processed from any point in the country. LAAI provides clients with continuous digital access to their analytical data through a proprietary intranet platform and dedicated mobile applications, enabling real-time visibility into results, work-in-progress status, historical statistics, and other account information from any location. Customer service is available Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. by telephone, supplemented by live online chat during business hours. The laboratory also generates its own clean, sustainable, and renewable energy for its operations, reflecting an institutional commitment to environmental responsibility. Taken together — the breadth of accreditations, cutting-edge triple-quadrupole mass spectrometry, national logistics infrastructure, digital data access, and demonstrated sustainability practices — LAAI presents itself as a credible, well-resourced analytical partner for agricultural producers, food processors, exporters, and regulated-industry operators throughout Uruguay.

ISO/IEC 17025 accredited by UKAS (No. 7968) testing laboratory (accreditation status: active). Accredited test areas include: Calibration Temperature Pressure; Mechanical Hardness; Mechanical Tensile Compression Flexural. Located at , United Kingdom, United Kingdom. Official accreditation scope: https://www.ukas.com/download-schedule/7968/Testing

ISO/IEC 17025 accredited by UKAS (No. 4236) testing laboratory (accreditation status: active). Accredited test areas include: Bio Biocompatibility; Bio Food Safety; Bio Sterility; Calibration Electrical; Calibration Temperature Pressure; Chemical; Chemical Cleanliness; Chemical Reach; Ndt Penetrant; Water Drinking; Water Legionella. Located at 6 Osyth Park, Oysth Close, Brackmills Industrial Estate, NN4 7DY, Northampton, United Kingdom. Official accreditation scope: https://www.ukas.com/download-schedule/4236/Testing

ISO/IEC 17025 accredited by ACCREDIA (No. 01222) testing laboratory (accreditation status: active). Accredited test areas include: Petroleum Fuel Testing; Water Drinking. Located at Via Portuense, 1818, 00054, Fiumicino, Italy. Official accreditation scope: https://certificati.accredia.it/cert_pa/L/01222/A/A

3A Laboratori is part of the Italian Lifeanalytics group, which supports clients with laboratory analysis, consultancy, training and the interpretation of national and international standards on safety and quality. Through its business units, the group delivers accredited laboratory analysis, technical consultancy, sampling and continuous training across several domains: EHS (environment, health & safety, through Ecol Studio, with over 40 years' experience in environmental and safety risk prevention and management); product safety; cosmetics and medical devices (research, development and in-vitro and in-vivo testing, regulatory consultancy, and safety and efficacy studies); and food (analysis, consultancy and training for the food industry and large-scale retail across the human and animal supply chain). With specialised professionals, advanced instrumentation and accredited services, Lifeanalytics integrates companies with long-standing market expertise to give clients access to a broad range of testing and compliance capabilities.

3Core2 Certification Ltd is a fully independent, UKAS-accredited certification body headquartered at 630 Birchwood Boulevard, Birchwood, Warrington, Cheshire WA3 7QU, England, with additional contact operations based in Manchester. Founded in 2019 by Managing Director Donn Houldsworth, the company was established with the explicit aim of improving standards within the certification industry by placing client experience, impartiality, and genuine value delivery at the centre of every engagement. From its foundation, 3Core2 moved rapidly through the accreditation pathway, achieving International Accreditation Service (IAS) accreditation in 2021 and full UKAS accreditation in 2022 under accreditation number 20271, cementing its status as a formally recognised and independently audited certification authority. 3Core2 holds UKAS accreditation under ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015, the international standard governing the competence, consistency, and impartiality of management systems certification bodies. Under this accreditation, the company is authorised to certify organisations to four core management system standards: ISO 9001:2015 (Quality Management Systems), ISO 14001:2015 (Environmental Management Systems), ISO 45001:2018 (Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems), and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 (Information Security Management Systems). In total, 3Core2 offers eleven ISO certification programmes, extending beyond these flagship standards to cover service management, business continuity, and other internationally recognised frameworks that address the full range of operational, environmental, and information security challenges facing modern organisations. The company's audit services are available in both remote and onsite formats, providing flexibility to clients of every size and geographic footprint. Whether a client operates from a single UK site or manages multi-site operations across different regions, 3Core2 structures its programmes around a defined certification cycle comprising an initial Stage 1 documentation review, a Stage 2 on-site or remote certification audit, and subsequent scheduled surveillance audits leading to recertification. This model ensures that certification is not a one-time formality but a living, continuously monitored demonstration of conformance, with the audit process adding practical value at every stage rather than simply confirming paperwork compliance. Beyond management systems certification, 3Core2 has obtained ISO/IEC 17020 Inspection Body Accreditation, enabling it to conduct formal independent inspections in accordance with internationally accepted criteria for impartiality, technical competence, and consistent performance. This scope extension positions 3Core2 to support clients in sectors where inspection activities are mandated by regulation or contract, in addition to or independently of management system certification. Complementing this, 3Core2 holds BAFE SP101 accreditation, authorising it to certify organisations operating within the UK fire extinguisher servicing and maintenance industry — a safety-critical sector governed by the British Approvals for Fire Equipment scheme and subject to strict third-party certification requirements for market credibility. 3Core2 participates in the Safety Schemes in Procurement (SSIP) framework as an accredited certification body member, recognising ISO 45001 occupational health and safety management systems as meeting SSIP's core criteria for pre-qualification assessment. This membership is of particular significance in the construction, engineering, and facilities management sectors, where supply chain safety compliance is a standard contractual requirement. Organisations that achieve ISO 45001 certification through 3Core2 gain recognition across the SSIP portal, offering a tangible commercial advantage when tendering for contracts that mandate demonstrable health and safety management credentials from suppliers and subcontractors. The industries and technical sectors covered by 3Core2's accredited scope are broad and explicitly multi-sector. The company's UKAS schedule identifies primary focus areas including construction, basic metals and fabricated metal products, manufacturing and engineering, transport and storage, information technology, security services, facilities management, and packaging. This deliberately wide technical scope reflects the cross-cutting applicability of quality, environmental, and safety management standards, and allows 3Core2 to serve organisations across the industrial, commercial, and service economy with consistent audit competence regardless of the client's specific sector or product type. In parallel with its certification and inspection activities, 3Core2 delivers ISO training courses designed to build internal capability within client organisations and help them prepare for, maintain, and maximise the value of their ISO certification. Training programmes are available for ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, and ISO/IEC 27001, spanning awareness-level introductions and internal auditor development curricula. Each course addresses the structure and key clauses of the relevant standard, audit expectations, common non-conformance triggers, and practical insights drawn from active audit experience. By combining rigorous, UKAS-accredited third-party certification with targeted internal training, 3Core2 supports the complete compliance lifecycle — from first awareness of a standard through first-time certification to long-term continual improvement — making it a comprehensive partner for organisations committed to sustainable ISO conformance.