What Tough Problems do Food Laboratories Solve for Manufactures?
Food Laboratories can perform custom
testing for entrepreneurs and manufacturers looking for product development and
quality control services for their food or beverage products. Using a variety of analytical instruments and
techniques, they are able to detect ingredients in a food or beverage
formulation down to the parts per million or even parts per billion levels. Some laboratories offer a variety of food and
beverage testing services:
Food
shelf life testing helps to identify how long a food or beverage product
can last in a variety of temperature and humidity conditions before being
consumed. This type of testing can also be used to find specifically what in a
product may be causing it to go bad earlier than intended and identify ways to
prolong the shelf life of a product.
Food packaging
extractable and leachable testing - also known as food contact material
analysis - is performed on the storage or packaging items that a food or
beverage comes into contact with. Not
all food packaging materials are appropriate for all types of food storage, especially
if your food or beverage is intended to be chilled or heated inside of its
packaging. Extractable and leachable testing needs to be performed to make sure
that toxic materials or chemicals do not leach out of the packaging. This is a popular test when testing the
safety of packaging materials.
Gluten and other food
allergen testing is something that should be taken seriously by all food
and beverage manufactures. Avoiding this
type of testing can have disastrous outcomes if a customer with severe
allergies consumes an improperly labeled product that does not specifically identify
that it contains an allergen.
Food safety and regulatory testing
preformed in an analytical food
laboratory can find harmful contaminants within a product like heavy metals
and a variety of other particles that may cause safety concerns. This type of testing can also help gain FDA, government,
or industrial bodies that regulate the food and beverage industry’s approval
for marketing and sale.
Nutrition
label analysis is a routine testing that identifies and quantitates nutritional
items within a food or beverage formulation.
This is more of a routine test and labels the content of materials like
vitamins, calories, protein, fat, etc.
Food quality
control testing is typically used as a preemptive step in preventing
product failure problems down the road and often involves occasional or regular
batch-to-batch variation testing. This
batch-to-batch testing takes a sample of the product typically on a weekly or
monthly basis and analyses it to make sure that the product is not unintentionally
varying over time, contaminated, or identifying other potential problems before
they grow or the product is distributed. This helps eliminate problems faster
and can identify if your raw material supplier is changing quality levels of
their product.
If this type of testing has not been
being performed and you are facing a potential product recall or lawsuit, it
can be used to hold future shipments temporarily, contact your distribution
network, inform customers, test multiple batches, and to find the cause of the
problem and develop a solution fast. A
non-routine independent testing laboratory that offers customized rush services
and performs food analysis’s frequently is probably your best bet for reliable
and speedy results. Some of these
laboratories also offer Food Litigation
Support. This kind of support can
give you experienced expert witnesses and access to many types of detailed
product analysis that you will need.
Food
Failure analysis is typically very investigative and detailed work. Typical questions solved by this type of testing
usually involve finding the reasons behind an off-odor, off-color, a reduced
shelf life, or identifying unknown contaminants, or a range of other problems.
About
Avomeen:
Avomeen Analytical Services analytical
testing laboratory is in Ann Arbor, MI.
Its nationwide
food testing laboratory that specializes in solving difficult analytical
questions, quality control, failure analysis, litigation support, and product
development services. Call today for a
free consultation at (800) 930-5450 or request a
quote online.
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