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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 test combinations for the food sector.

This proficiency test is based on a typical ready-to-eat meal that might be bought in a supermarket. Hence, the analytes are the routine nutritional components of moisture, ash, total fat, nitrogen, sodium and chloride.

Ready meals are becoming increasingly popular, due to the large time savings they can offer the end consumer over that of more traditional cooking techniques. As such there is a large consumer demand which can result in various challenges for supply chains to address.

Consumers are continually health focussed, this is a key area for manufacturers to take advantage of and communicate any nutritional values and their benefits in an effort to persuade consumers to purchase their products. It is important, however, to ensure these claims are well-founded and accurate, as to not mis-inform consumers. Your effective testing arrangement is required to achieve this. Fapas proficiency tests can help you maintain these effective testing practices.

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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