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Test Description

Nutritional components test. As nutritional legislation increases, the proficiency of laboratories to provide accurate results to food manufacturers for labelling is critical, to help consumers make informed choices about the food they eat. Fapas offers the widest range of analyte/matrix proficiency testing combinations for the food sector.

This proficiency test evaluates your testing ability for a variety of proximates including sodium and chloride (separately, not as salt). For Total fat, state the use of acid hydrolysis. Matrix (meat type) will change between each test but will be one of Pork, Beef, Chicken, and Processed Meat. This is a meat based meal and will include a sauce and other non-meat ingredients.

Proximates are effective to analyse nutritional values of foodstuffs, which can inform a variety of characteristics of food products, such as quality and composition. As such effective testing is required to highlight any misleading claims or inaccurate nutritional values. Proficiency testing activities are ideal to highlight any poor analysis practises or areas for improvement, from which to ensure high quality test results are offered to consumers.

Canned meat offers many advantages over fresh equivalents, namely storage times and cost savings as a result. Hence its popularity has increased which may cause supply chain challenges. This will require effective testing measures to ensure high quality testing measures.

Proficiency testing practices are therefore invaluable to maintain the testing ability required to highlight any false claims being made by manufacturers, as well as promoting high quality produce for consumers to enjoy. Fapas proficiency tests make use of real food matrices from which to ensure direct comparisons with your current routine analysis activities. This can allow you to make effective testing improvements across your testing arrangement, from which to ensure high quality test results are offered to regulators, and your customers.

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