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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.
An additive can come in the form of a dye, pigment or substance which is added or applied to a food. This proficiency test addresses the need to analyse for illegal dyes which are not permitted or approved for use in our foods. The dyes/colours permitted for use in foods are defined in the Colours in Food Regulations 1995. Therefore the presence of any of these dyes/colours, at any level is illegal.
Hot pepper sauces can use food additives to improve the perceived colour of the foodstuff, this practice is used routinely across both sauces and a plethora of other foods. Being able to both identify and quantify the levels of these additives are important to ensure only safe, high quality foodstuffs are passed to the consumer. Hot pepper sauce and sauces in general have a large amount of additives to aid with shelf life and appearance, as well as flavour and as such may be seen as high risk for containing controlled or banned substances hence the need for robust testing methods to highlight this accordingly.
To promote highly accurate testing across a range of testing environments, proficiency testing activities should be utilised. Fapas proficiency tests make use of real food samples from which your testing ability can be immediately critiqued and areas of improvement found quickly and effectively. These areas of improvement are also immediately actionable due to the close to real life testing situations Fapas proficiency tests can replicate.
