A premium-egg label that says "high in Omega-3" or "antibiotic-free" means almost nothing without independent verification. So we publish ours — every batch, every month, with the lab name, the test methodology, and the result. Verify before you buy. Or ask us anything.
There is a quiet, awkward truth in the Indian premium-food industry: almost no one publishes their lab reports. Brands print claims on packaging — "high Omega-3," "free from antibiotics," "no preservatives" — and consumers, with no way to verify, simply trust them. This works in normal circumstances. It collapses the moment a single brand is exposed for embellishing. Trust, once lost in food, is almost impossible to rebuild.
We've decided not to play that game. From the day Sahya Agro started shipping eggs in 2019, we've held one operating principle: every claim we make must be independently verifiable. The Omega-3 number on our Omega Reserve carton matches what an NABL-accredited lab measured in the most recent batch. The "antibiotic-free" claim is supported by a 16-compound antibiotic residue panel run every single month. The "no heavy metals" implicit promise is checked quarterly against arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury.
This page is where all of that lives — the latest report, the test methodology, the historical archive, and the contact details if you'd like to request a specific batch's certificate. If a question goes unanswered here, write to us; we'll add it. Transparency is iterative, and we're still learning what to disclose better. The goal is simple: make it impossible for any customer to ever wonder whether the egg in their kitchen is what we said it was.
A practical note before you read further: lab reports are most useful when you understand what you're looking at, but they are also useful even when you don't. The simple act of a brand publishing them changes the brand's behaviour. The number on the carton has to match the number on the public report, every month. That accountability loop — visible publication forcing internal honesty — is what we'd argue is the single most important thing we do. Trust isn't a product feature; it's a posture. Every page on our website is built around that posture. This one is the simplest to verify.
The complete panel run on every monthly batch, plus the quarterly extended panel. Each test follows a documented international method.
A lab report is just a string of acronyms and decimals to most people. Below, in plain language, is what each test on our panel actually measures and why it matters for the egg you're about to eat. Skip what you already know; bookmark what you don't.
Omega-3 fatty acids (ALA, EPA, DHA). Tested using gas chromatography with flame ionisation detection (GC-FID), following AOAC method 996.06. The lab measures three forms separately: ALA (alpha-linolenic acid, plant-derived), EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid, anti-inflammatory), and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid, the brain-and-eye form). Total Omega-3 is the sum. For our Omega Reserve eggs, the target is at least 600 mg per 60g egg; for Estate Brown and Pearl White, around 340 mg. The number you see on our cartons is verified against this test, batch by batch. Without independent measurement, "high in Omega-3" is just a label decoration.
Antibiotic residue (16-compound panel). This is arguably our most important test because preventive antibiotic use is the single largest food-safety problem in Indian commercial poultry. The panel covers tetracyclines, fluoroquinolones, sulfonamides, macrolides, and penicillins — the five most-abused families. The method is liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), with detection limits as low as 0.1 µg/kg. Result: not detected (ND) across every batch we have records for, going back to 2022. We don't use antibiotics. The lab confirms we don't.
Heavy metals (Pb, Cd, Hg, As). Lead, cadmium, mercury, and arsenic — the four most concerning environmental contaminants for any food. They enter the food chain through soil, water, or feed contamination, and they accumulate over years. The test method is inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), one of the most sensitive analytical techniques in modern chemistry. Detection limits are in the low parts-per-billion. We test our farm soil and feed annually for the same metals, so we can correlate any anomalous egg result back to its source.
Salmonella and E. coli. The two pathogens most commonly associated with raw or undercooked eggs. Salmonella is tested per ISO 6579-1, the international standard for poultry products, requiring complete absence in 25g of sample. E. coli is tested per ISO 16649-2, with FSSAI's threshold being under 10 colony-forming units per gram. Both are routine, both are rarely failed by clean operations, but routine testing is the only way to catch a contamination event early enough to prevent harm.
Pesticide residues (50-compound panel). Tested quarterly using gas chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (GC-MS/MS). Covers the 50 most common synthetic pesticides used in Indian agriculture, including organophosphates, organochlorines, pyrethroids, and neonicotinoids. Because our hens eat NPOP-certified organic feed, we'd expect zero — but we test anyway, because feed supply chains can have surprises, and we'd rather catch a problem at our farm than have a customer's pediatrician find it later.
Microplastics (FTIR microscopy). A relatively new test we added in 2024 after academic research showed microplastic contamination in commercial poultry feed. We test the yolk sample using Fourier-transform infrared microscopy, which can identify and count microplastic particles down to 5 micrometres. Not detected in every quarterly test we've run. We're glad. We'll keep testing.
In May 2023, our routine monthly Omega-3 test came back at 521 mg per egg — about 12% below our committed target of 600 mg for Omega Reserve. It wasn't a food-safety issue and most customers wouldn't have noticed in their breakfast. But it was a number we'd promised, and we hadn't delivered it. We did three things in the next 72 hours.
First, we held all Omega Reserve cartons in our cold room and stopped dispatching them. Second, we traced the issue: our flax supplier had had a poor harvest that quarter and shipped us seed with lower oil content than usual — measurable when we ran our own feed-component test that we'd somehow skipped that month. Third, we switched suppliers within five days, increased flax content from 12% to 14% in the new feed mix, and ran a full re-test before resuming dispatches.
Then we did the part that mattered most: we published the failed report. We added it to the public archive on this page with a note explaining what happened and what we changed. We emailed every Omega Reserve subscriber a personal apology with a free replacement carton. We didn't try to bury it, didn't replace the report with a "corrected" version, didn't quietly delete anything. The May 2023 report still sits in our archive — you can request it the same way you'd request any other.
A handful of customers wrote in to thank us. A few more cancelled, which we understood. The vast majority continued ordering. The episode taught us that transparency under pressure is the only kind that means anything, and it's stuck with us as a guiding principle ever since. Every premium-food brand has a moment like this. Most companies hide them. We don't. We can't. Our customers deserve to know. So do we.
Random sampling, rotating labs, public reporting. Four principles that make our testing actually mean something.
We use a basic randomisation script that picks 5 cartons from each day's production for the testing window. Eggs sealed in sample boxes, signed by two team members, couriered same day. We never select "best looking" eggs.
Two NABL-accredited independent labs (Delhi and Bengaluru) on a rotating schedule, plus a Singapore lab quarterly for cross-verification. We change primary lab every two years to prevent unconscious bias from long working relationships.
Every test follows a published international method (AOAC, ISO, FDA, EFSA). Results are reported with detection limits, methodology codes, and lab signature. No proprietary or unverifiable measurements.
Every report uploaded to this page within 5 working days of receipt. Failed batches published the same way with a remediation note. Specific batch reports available on request, free, within 24 hours.
Last 12 months of monthly batch results. Click any entry to request the full PDF.
Reports older than 12 months available on request — email reports@sahyaagro.com with the batch ID or month-year.
Because almost no other premium-egg brand in India does. We believe transparency is the only sustainable form of marketing. If a claim cannot be verified independently, it is just a label. By publishing every batch's lab data — including the testing lab's name, date, methodology, and result — we let any customer verify our claims without taking our word for them. This level of transparency is what we'd want from any food brand we buy from ourselves.
We rotate between two NABL-accredited independent labs based in Delhi and Bengaluru. We don't own them, we don't pay performance bonuses, and we don't share staff. Every quarter, we also send a sample to a third-party international lab in Singapore for cross-verification. We change our primary lab every two years to prevent any unconscious bias from a long working relationship.
Six core parameters every month: Omega-3 fatty acids (ALA, EPA, DHA breakdown), antibiotic residue (16-compound panel), heavy metals (lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic), Salmonella (presence/absence in 25g sample), E. coli (counts per gram), and basic protein/fat profile. Once a quarter, we add pesticide residue (50-compound panel) and microplastics testing. Once a year, hormones.
Monthly batch testing for the core six parameters, with samples drawn within 48 hours of laying. Quarterly extended panel testing including pesticides and microplastics. Annual comprehensive review covering all 80+ regulatory parameters required for organic certification renewal. Whenever we onboard a new feed supplier, we run a full panel within the first month.
Yes. Every carton has a batch number printed on the side. Email your batch number to support@sahyaagro.com or send it via WhatsApp at +91 90917 92917, and we'll send the corresponding NABL lab report PDF within 5 minutes during business hours, or 24 hours otherwise. There is no cost; we treat this as a basic customer right.
Three things, in this order. First, we hold all eggs from that batch and don't ship anything pending re-test. Second, we trace the issue to a root cause — feed batch, water source, supplier change, or environmental factor — and fix it at the source. Third, we still publish the failed report, with a remediation note explaining what we found and what we changed. Failures are part of any honest food system; covering them up is what we refuse to do.
Random sampling, not curated. We use a basic randomisation script that picks 5 cartons from each day's production for the testing window. Eggs are sealed in sample boxes, signed by two team members, and couriered the same day to the lab. We never select 'best looking' eggs for testing — that defeats the entire purpose of independent verification.
Yes, but rarely as a separate test, because growth hormones are illegal in poultry production in India and our feed certification chain confirms zero hormone use. Once a year, we run a hormone panel as a regulatory due-diligence step. Results have been undetectable across all years we have records for. We are happy to share these reports on request.
The eggs in your next carton will be matched to a publicly available NABL test report. That's the kind of confidence we'd want from anything we feed our families.