Food quality control testing methods guide
Support label claims, improve product consistency, and accelerate release decisions with practical food and beverage QC methods.
Compliance
EU 2024/825 Directive on Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition: Selling Sustainability in Europe
Europe’s new anti-greenwashing framework is raising the bar from aspiration to evidence.
How to turn CIP into a competitive advantage
AI-enhanced CIP solutions can help food and beverage manufacturers forecast potential inefficiencies, accelerate troubleshooting, and maximise uptime –– without compromising on essential food safety.
How to Position Your Food and Beverage Lab for Success
Maintaining food safety from production to consumption is essential
Prevent the Recall: How to Avoid Pesticide MRL Violations and Steps to Take if One Occurs
Pesticide-related compliance incidents continue to rise, and the stakes have never been higher. With thousands of pesticide maximum residue level (MRL) changes happening every week, the food industry faces a rapidly shifting regulatory landscape1. One...
Reducing Risk: How Smart Preservation Enhances Food Safety
Food recalls are on the rise, posing risks to consumers and brands alike. As regulations evolve, food manufacturers must stay ahead of safety challenges while maintaining product integrity.
How regulations are pushing healthier eating habits
Chronic diseases linked to modern dietary habits continue to affect consumers worldwide.
Product Specifications: Challenges and Best Practices
With the media spotlight on subpar supplements and adulterated ingredients, what happens next is crucial and should concern every Brand Owner CEO.
Six Key Components for Successful Food Labeling
Effective food labeling involves more than just compliance—it's a strategic process that begins with supplier interactions and extends through specification management, formulation, labeling, and ongoing maintenance.
11 Important Aspects of US Food Regulations
Are you navigating the complex world of regulatory affairs to ensure ingredient and product compliance? We are delighted to present our FAQ guide, reviewed by regulatory expert, Amy Mozingo, who brings 20+ years of experience in US FDA regulation of food...
Driving Growth with Health & Sustainable Labeling
Struggling to keep food & beverage labels in line with ever-evolving consumer demands and global regulations? FoodChain ID's new whitepaper outlines the latest drivers for transparent labeling and reveals what consumers and regulators really want to...
Unpacking the Impact: What State Color and Food Additive Bans Mean for Your Products
California’s adoption of AB 418 to prohibit Brominated Vegetable Oil, Potassium Bromate, Propylparaben and Red Dye 3 has led other U.S. states to follow with their own proposals for color and food additive bans. This growing patchwork of state and...
The easy path to “dry” cleaning & sanitization
Mitigating residual moisture is an ever-present food safety and quality goal in any food processing environment. Yet there’s a Catch-22: Most conventional cleaning & sanitization protocols involve large amounts of water, leaving residual moisture that...
From Labeling to Leading: A Cost-Effective Approach for Empowering Innovation
Food and Beverage companies need better food labeling solutions. Beyond that, most in the industry understand that “labeling” starts at the beginning, not the end of the process. Explore a digital platform that revolutionizes collaboration and automates...
Take Control with Predictive Modeling from Corbion
Increased demand for uncured, higher pH formulations and natural products has made the challenge of controlling Listeria difficult. The good news: the job just got easier with the Corbion® Listeria Control Model, a science-based tool created to help you...
Four actionable steps to reduce allergen recalls
Failing to mitigate allergen risks has serious consequences - not just for consumer safety, poor allergen procedures can also cause financial losses and long-lasting reputation damage.
Accelerate your new product development (NPD)
Delivering new products to market is a complex process with multiple challenges that results in a failure rate of between 30-40%.
Current Food Supply Chain Threats to Brand Reputation
The global food supply involves complex, interconnected sources and regulatory challenges.
Enhance food safety and quality with Fortress Inspection Systems
Join us at Pack Expo Las Vegas, Booth 4303! Discover custom inspection solutions from Fortress Technology that ensure compliance with food safety regulations and safeguard your brand.
Positioning Your F&B Testing Lab for Success
Food and beverage labs face a significant responsibility – ensuring the safety of the global food supply chain
Convert to a 100% recyclable compliant package
In November 2021, Mexico approved the Circular Economy Law requiring companies to gradually increase the percentage of recycled content in their packaging to achieve 100% recyclability by 2030. Other countries around the world will soon follow.
Rapid, reliable PCR detection of Vibrio in Seafood
Reliably detect Vibrio cholerae, V. parahaemolyticus and V. vulnificus in food samples in as little as 9 hours with the highly specific, simple to use Thermo Scientific™ SureTect™ Vibrio PCR Assay.
False rejects, don’t let it happen to you
As a food manufacturer, you want to detect the smallest metal contaminants possible to keep food safe and protect your brand. With certain foods subject to ''product effect'', you could be in danger of wasting too much "good" product through false...
The future of food and drink labelling in Europe
Front-of-pack labelling for food and drink is under the spotlight as various strategies are being implemented across Europe to encourage healthier and more sustainable food choices. Now more than ever, food businesses are facing challenges when trying to...
Microbiological analysis quality control
Your brand and customers depend on the strength of your microbiological analysis. So it is important to have complete confidence in your methods and laboratory equipment to avoid costly mistakes such as re-work, or wastage.
Increase your confidence in pesticides analysis
Regulations that set the maximum residue limits of pesticides in food matrices present significant analytical challenges due to low limits of quantitation required in these complex matrices.
18 steam distillation challenges solved!
Use our popular steam distillation cue cards to benefit from expert solutions to key challenges in steam distillation.
Why is acrylamide in the news again?
Disruption in supply chain within the last 12 months has dramatically increased the number of positive samples for acrylamide.
19 Pocket Cards with Essential Kjeldahl Knowledge
With our free cue cards, keep essential knowledge of the Kjeldahl method with theory and tips right at your fingertips, for quick and easy referral. Cover the entire process for nitrogen and protein determination with concise summaries of all steps....
How modern technology boosts quality and compliance
Food and beverage production is subject to the rollout of changing regulations like the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), and the recently released New Era for Smarter Food Safety Blueprint. Manufacturers and retailers alike are on notice to step up...
How to Enter UK’s £690M CBD Market
The UK has the world’s most developed regulatory framework for legal cannabinoids, such as CBD and CBG. With a 2021 market estimated to be worth £690 million (€800M) it is the second largest in the world after the US.
The clock is ticking for catering businesses in the UK
The UK Food Information Amendment, (Natasha’s Law) comes into effect Oct 2021. Businesses must provide full ingredient lists and allergen labelling on all PPDS Food. Nutritics and their partners at the Quadram Institute, Manchester Metropolitan...
Analysis of Dietary Supplements and Health Foods
The vitamins A, C, D, E, B6, B12, folate, and the minerals selenium, zinc, copper, and iron, are essential for normal immune function. Dietary supplements are highly in demand to boost immunity and prevent deficiencies in these nutrients. Dietary...
Download The Essential Guide to Tethered Closures
In the EU, tethered closures will soon be mandatory for most single-use plastic containers. We expect other regions around the world to adopt similar legislation in the near future. Are you ready? How do you navigate this challenge and...
Protein analysis in plant-based meat alternatives
Kjeldahl, the reference method for total nitrogen and protein determination, can be easily and reliably used for evaluation of plant-based meat alternatives. In this free whitepaper, learn the steps in the method,...
Kjeldahl guidebook: the gold standard for nitrogen analysis
With this free guidebook, rely on 50 years of experience with using the Kjeldahl method as a reference method for nitrogen determination. Learn about: Optimization of the digestion and distillation steps Determination of organic, inorganic, oxidized...
Free guidebook to proximate analysis of food
Proximate analysis refers to the quantitative analysis of macromolecules in food. A combination of different techniques, such as extraction, Kjeldahl, NIR are used to determine protein, fat, moisture, ash and carbohydrates levels. With the guidebook,...
Direct Moisture Determination of Various Grain/Seed Products
An accurate determination of moisture content in grains, grain products, and seeds provides important information related to the quality and safety, as well as being a key variable used to calculate the product purity, yield, and resulting constituent...
Free booklet: Fat extraction for food analysis
Fat extraction is a standard reference method for quality control, labeling and satisfying stringent regulations. "The five essentials of fat extraction – and how they make your process quick and compliant" can help you optimize your fat extraction...
Metal Detectors versus X-Ray Systems
Fortress Technology tackles the equipment options in the most widespread food and packaging application scenarios and cuts through the confusion on the pros and pitfalls of metal detectors versus x-ray. This white paper highlights the importance of...
Everything about in-container sterilization
JBT has a long history and an extensive track record in thermal processing of packaged food. JBT retorts and sterilizers are renowned for their outstanding and consistent temperature distribution, ensuring high-quality products and food safety while...
The Revolutionary IQ4 Metal Detector from Loma Systems
Using over 50 years of experience in developing metal detection technology, Loma Systems launched the next generation IQ4 Metal Detector Series. With cutting-edge technology and an abundance of industry-first features, the IQ4 series meets customers'...
Regulatory horizon scanning: what you need to know
Understanding forthcoming and proposed food and beverage legislation is critical for informed decision making. But what about the future developments that you don't know about yet? This is where horizon scanning comes in. Used strategically and...
Whitepaper: Beyond 2017: Utilising technology to maximise food safety in manufacturing
Whilst 2016 was certainly a year of change for the food manufacturing sector, 2017 has managed to top this by throwing even more upheaval at the industry. With the socioeconomical fallout from Brexit still causing uncertainty, plus announcements...
Vanillin: how to comply with both EU and US natural labeling?
Meeting the “Natural flavoring substance” status as defined by both EU and US regulations (FDA &TTB) is today key to face the growing consumers’ demand for natural labels on food...
Campus New “NON GMO Product Certification”
The growing attention from the market to the GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms), led Campus to implement and improve its quality system. Campus is proud to announce the GMO certification...
Live webinar on ISO 17025 accreditation and ISO 11133:2014 - Quality increase in Water and Food microbiology testing
How does ISO 17025 accreditation for quality control according to ISO 11133 standard lead to a quality increase in water and food microbiology testing? ISO 17025 accreditation specifies the quality management and technical requirements laboratories must...
Understanding Global Olive Oil Quality, Grading and Labelling Requirements
The purpose of this white paper is to provide an overview of the voluntary industry standards and government/state regulations relating to olive oil. It aims to promote an understanding of the...
The Importance of Cleaning Validation in Allergen Management
The majority of food manufacturers would accept that cleaning is a vital function within food processing, especially with respect to issues of hygiene. However, cleaning is also a defining process...
The impact of EN ISO 11133: A mandatory standard for culture media
EN ISO 11133:2014 is a mandatory for all accredited laboratories that perform microbiological testing of food, animal feed or water using culture media. The standard clarifies procedures and draws...