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Test Description

Within this proficiency test the nutritional components include those specific to dairy products, titratable acidity and lactose. The common nutritional components are moisture, ash, total fat and nitrogen.

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.

Proximates 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 practices or areas for improvement, from which to ensure high quality test results are offered to your customers. Manufacturers may also make bold labelling claims that should be verified to determine their accuracy, something which requires extensive, flexible techniques.

Milk powder is consumed as a standalone ingredient, as well as part of numerous processed foods, such as infant formulas or pre-made milkshakes. This therefore can result in significant demand from which to challenge wider complex supply chains. The nutritional labelling claims of milk powder are also extremely important to verify due to their large potential impact within the development stages of infants due to their inclusion within infant formula in significant quantities.

Proficiency testing activities can play a vital role in benchmarking your current testing ability, from which to highlight any improvements that may be attainable to maintain or achieve the highly credible test results your customers, and regulators, require. Fapas proficiency tests make use of real food matrices, from which to provide direct comparisons with your current testing arrangement. This can allow you to provide clear and concise improvements which can be quickly implemented and are relevant to your routine testing arrangement, achieving significant time and cost savings.  

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