Food Additives and Ingredients in Tomato Sauce Proficiency Test

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Product Specification

Proficiency Test Information
Product Code Proficiency Test Matrix Approx. Size
FCFA8-CON21

20234

Tomato Sauce

150g

Analytes

Brix, pH, Total Acidity, Sodium, Chloride, Benzoic Acid

Test Description

The analytes for this proficiency test combine aspects of nutritional or flavour components with those associated with long shelf life.

There are thousands of ingredients used to make our foods. These ingredients have useful functions that enable consumers to enjoy flavourful, nutritious and safe food. Additives, colourings and preservatives all play a part in the ingredients we see in our foods today and they perform a variety of useful functions in foods that consumers take for granted. However, these ingredients need to be monitored too to ensure that the levels added are not in excess of the appropriate guidelines or that a banned ingredient/component is not being added deliberately or unintentionally. For this reason Fapas provides a wide range of proficiency tests which encompasses this area of interest.

Tomato sauce is known to include a variety of different ingredients to achieve the desired product characteristics or flavour and appearance, among others. As such it can be difficult for manufacturers to maintain accurate ingredients lists including individual quantities. As such there is a real opportunity for food testing laboratories to highlight any missed ingredients, some of which may be controlled, or verify any quantities used within each product to therefore verify or dispute any claims made.

To achieve this high quality testing ability effective quality control processes should be in place. Proficiency testing from Fapas is important to achieve flexible, high quality testing practices that can stand up to both regulator and customer scrutiny. Fapas proficiency tests make use of real food matrices, from which to highlight areas of improvement or bias within your test results and therefore testing practices. They are invaluable for safeguarding your accurate testing practices within an ever growing global supply chain.

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