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Food Analytics: Testing and Quality Control

SelectScience
25 Jul 2022

Food testing and quality control are essential to adhere to regulatory approval and to measure the components and quality of your food products during manufacture.

In this free eBook, discover guides that can help with understanding different analysis requirements, the equipment that can support these, and tips and tricks for the analyses that are needed.

This eBook will also cover:

  • Nitrogen & protein determination in meat
  • Guidebook to proximate analysis
  • Essentials of fat extraction
  • Quality control of meat and dairy

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ProxiMate is a robust, compact and extremely easy to use at-line NIR instrument specialized for the food and feed industry. The system considerably reduces downtime in production and provides quick and reliable quality control of batch samples. The intuitively designed interface allows operation by users of any skill level. A wide selection of precalibration packages make it suitable for any application.

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Food and Beverage AnalyzersFood and Beverage Analyzers are commonly used to provide information about the chemical composition, structure and physical properties of food materials.Food and Beverage ProcessingFood and Beverage Processing involves the preparation of food products for further analysis. Typical instrumentation includes blanchers, color sorters, cookers, grinders, and refrigeration. These are used to replicate the processes commonly used in the commercial preparation of food and beverages.Food SafetyFood safety describes the prevention of food-borne illnesses. Contamination with a variety of pathogens can be prevented with adequate temperature control, hygiene and labeling. Food samples can be tested using GC/MS, HPLC, SPE, and qPCR to ensure their adherence to regulations.Food TestingFood testing refers to a variety experiments including PCR, mass spectrometry, processing, QuEChERS, analyzing and Kjeldahl.Food FraudFood adulteration refers to food when it has been has been altered unlawfully with the addition of another lower commodity food product to increase quantity. The 2013 European horsemeat scandal saw the adulteration of beef products with the addition of horse meat.

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