"Laboratory Day" of COGTESI at Cotekna Ukraine Limited

Mastery comes only with practice and cannot come from just reading instructions.

The 11th of January, 2023 became a real "laboratory day" for students of the III and IV courses of the specialty "Ecology" and "Chemical Technologies and Engineering" of the College of Oil and Gas Technologies, Engineering and Service Infrastructure of ONUT!

As part of the training practices "Instruments and methods for environment studying", "Technological analysis and production control", the COGTESI students, together with the leader Olga Sagdeeva expanded theoretical knowledge and improved practical skills in the laboratory of Cotecna Ukraine Limited (Cotecna), a provider of testing, verification and certification services.

The services of an international company include inspection services, laboratory testing, product certification and compliance, trade finance support, certification and training.

Cotecna covers monitoring, weighing and sampling as well as testing, verification and certification of agricultural products and processes at every stage of production, supported by a global network of laboratories and internationally recognized accreditations and certifications of the highest standards.

Cotecna Inspection provides analytical methods for the control of raw materials, which are implemented by the most modern European-class equipment. The company's feed and food safety laboratories specialize in the chemical, biochemical, microbiological and sensory analysis of a wide range of foods, baby foods, organic foods, food ingredients, food additives and food contact materials.

The COGTESI students not only got acquainted in detail with the methods and instrumental base of a modern laboratory, which, of course, leaves an indelible impression, but also learned everything about the analysis technique, the principles of operation of many devices, and sample preparation technology.

In addition, the students performed laboratory work on obtaining soy extract for further analysis and in practice made sure how important the instrument base is for industrial purposes, and how modern equipment facilitates and speeds up analysis, how much it reduces the error of the results!

And the most interested in their specialty COGTESI students got the opportunity to have a technological practice at Cotecna Inspection!

The College of Oil and Gas Technologies, Engineering and Service Infrastructure of ONUT thanks the laboratory staff - recent graduates of the universities of Odessa and ours, including our college! – for valuable experience, professionalism and the opportunity to improve the competence level of our student!!!