主要从事药品、保健食品、化妆品的微生物学检验及其方法学研究；抗生素效价测定；洁净区（室）环境监测；标准菌株的控制和管理；微生物鉴定及溯源分析；微生物检测技术培训等工作。现有洁净实验室、分子生物学实验室、二级生物安全实验室、抗生素效价测定室及一般功能实验室，总面积约2000m2；拥有高级职称人员3人、硕士4人；配备有微生物鉴定质谱系统、全自动微生物鉴定及药敏分析系统、实时荧光定量PCR仪、微生物数码显微培养计数系统、无菌隔离器、生物显微镜等精密仪器设备。多年来，微生物检验室在无偿培训企业技术人员方面做出了突出贡献，完成国家药典任务及广东省科技计划项目等十余项，在微生物检测相关领域，具有较强的科研能力。
The main duties of the department are focus on microbiological assay and methodology study for medicines, health-care foods and cosmetics medical devices, antibiotic potency determination, environmental monitoring for clean area/room, control and management of strains for assay, microbial identification and traceability analysis, and professional training on microbiological assay techniques. The department is composed of clean rooms, molecular biology labs, BSL-2 labs, antibiotic potency labs and general function labs, with the whole area around 2000 m2. Colleagues include 4 technicians with senior professional title and 4 masters. We are equipped with many advanced instruments including MALDI-TOF Biotyper，Automated Microbiology System，Real-time PCR ，Microbiological digital microculture counting system，Sterile Isolator，Biological Microscope, etc.
For many years, the department has made outstanding contributions in training technical personnels for enterprises free of charge. Besides, the department has accomplished more than 10 of the national Pharmacopoeia related tasks, Guangdong Province Science and Technology projects and has strong microbiological research capability.
部门座右铭 细节决定成败，责任铸就辉煌。
