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What is food safety testing really costing you?

Lab invoices are only part of it. Enter a few numbers about your operation to see the hidden costs around testing, and what you could get back.

Your numbers

Rough figures are fine. Everything updates as you type.

Your business

Annual revenue

Cost of goods sold

% of rev

Cost of capital

Your borrowing rate, or what idle cash could earn

Your testing

Lab fees

$ /mo

Labs you work with

Days product waits on results

5 days

Share of production held for results

100%

Tests that get rerun

Your QA team

People on the team

Salary per person

$ /yr

Other spend

Testing software

$ /mo

Shipping & supplies

$ /mo

Outsourced QA consulting

$ /mo

Regulatory, validation or CAPA support you pay for outside. Leave at zero if none.

Your estimate

$0saved a year

That's 0% of the hidden costs around testing — everything beyond your lab invoices — and 0 hours of QA time back a year.

Hidden costs of testing

Today$0

With Genista$0

Your lab invoices — $0 a year — sit outside this comparison. Genista replaces them with a single monthly fee priced on your testing volume, so they're shown for context but never counted as a saving.

Where it comes from

Cost	With Genista	You save
Hidden costs
Lab fees	Quoted separately	—
Total testing cost today

How we calculate this

What counts as a saving: the hidden costs around testing — everything beyond the lab invoice. Lab fees themselves are replaced by one monthly Genista fee priced on your testing volume, so they're shown but never counted here. Once your volumes are known, compare that quote against your total cost today.
QA staff time: teams spend roughly 18% of their time on testing admin with one lab, rising 8 points per additional lab to a maximum of 50%. Genista removes about 85% of that work. Roughly 60% of it is data entry and waiting, the rest tracking results and EMP data.
Working capital: the cost of carrying inventory while it waits on results, valued at cost (revenue × cost of goods sold) for the share of production you hold, at your cost of capital. Genista's faster results bring the wait to about one day.
Software, shipping & supplies, QA consulting: included in the monthly fee, so they drop to zero.
Retests: a retest costs about 2.5× the original once reshipping and handling are added. Retests are free with Genista.
QA hours recovered: team size × 2,080 hours × your admin percentage × 85%.

Estimates are based on the figures you enter and on typical Genista customer results. Your actual savings will depend on your operation.

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