Contract food-testing labs face analytical challenges every day. Not only are these laboratories tasked with testing a huge variety of foods, ingredients, and consumer products for a number of different chemical contaminants using analytical methods that are targeted and validated, but to add to that challenge, they also carry the responsibility of ensuring that food products are, in general, safe and contaminant-free � covering both the compounds they are targeting as well as anything else that could unexpectedly be present. In an effort to screen for unlimited potential contaminants in food products (in essence, to collect all-of-the-data, all-of-the-time), while still ensuring the utmost in data accuracy and quality, new technology, equipment, software, and methods are essential tools for growing contract food testing labs. Here we will highlight some of these new tools, how they can be easily implemented into the workflows of routine testing labs, and the processes that can be used to support method validation and data verification.

Tools for contract testing labs:  Incorporating new technologies for routine testing workflows

244th National Meeting (2012)

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