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How can you identify food product defects during testing?

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Food product defects can affect the quality, safety, and reputation of your food manufacturing business. They can also lead to customer complaints, recalls, and legal issues. Therefore, it is essential to identify and prevent them during testing. In this article, you will learn how to use different methods and tools to detect food product defects and what actions to take if you find them.

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Stephen Odusanya

Quality, Food Safety, HACCP, Industrial Hygiene, Environment and Microbiology Professional
Waqas Ahmed Operations Expert

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Amey Mahulikar

Assistant Manager Quality Assurance | Internal Auditor, Six Sigma, Food safety, sensory team management, QMS

1 Visual inspection

Visual inspection is the simplest and most common way to check for food product defects. You can use your eyes or a magnifying glass to look for signs of physical damage, contamination, discoloration, mold, insects, or foreign objects. You can also compare the appearance of your product with a standard sample or a reference image. Visual inspection is useful for detecting obvious defects, but it may not be enough for detecting subtle or hidden defects.

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Waqas Ahmed Operations Expert

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Visual inspection is not as easy sometimes during a bulk production in large manufacturing unit especially for those who have large demand and supply. In this sorting, grading with automation can be more helpful. Using eyes and magnifying glass can not be reliable, although somehow to small unit it can be achievable.

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2 Sensory evaluation

Sensory evaluation is the process of using your senses of smell, taste, touch, and hearing to assess the quality and acceptability of food products. You can use sensory evaluation to detect defects that affect the flavor, aroma, texture, and sound of your product. For example, you can smell for rancidity, taste for bitterness, feel for hardness, or listen for crispiness. Sensory evaluation is subjective and depends on the skill and preference of the evaluator, so it is important to use trained and calibrated panelists and follow standardized protocols.

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Stephen Odusanya

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Sensory parameter is very key in determination of quality of a product, though it may have nothing to do with how safe the product is to consumers. It forms a major criteria for which consumers buy a product. Consumers are very sensitive to changes in sensory attributes of food they love, it is important that a product maintains it's consistency in it's sensory attributes. It is this consistency that has made coca cola the number one beverage in the world. Training and selection of sensory panelists is very key to ensuring only quality food makes it to the market.

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3 Chemical analysis

Chemical analysis is the process of using laboratory instruments and methods to measure the chemical composition and properties of food products. You can use chemical analysis to detect defects that affect the nutritional value, shelf life, safety, and functionality of your product. For example, you can measure the pH, moisture, fat, protein, sugar, salt, vitamins, minerals, preservatives, additives, or contaminants of your product. Chemical analysis is objective and accurate, but it may be costly, time-consuming, and require specialized equipment and personnel.

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4 Microbiological testing

Microbiological testing is the process of using biological methods and indicators to identify and quantify the presence and activity of microorganisms in food products. You can use microbiological testing to detect defects that affect the safety and quality of your product due to spoilage, fermentation, or pathogenic contamination. For example, you can use culture plates, petri dishes, swabs, or rapid tests to check for bacteria, yeast, mold, or toxins in your product. Microbiological testing is essential for ensuring food safety and compliance, but it may also be expensive, complex, and require specific conditions and standards.

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Microbiological testing is very key in determination of quality and safety of food including the hygiene of the environment in which the food is been produced. From my experience, though food or environment tested for microbial conformance may be within specification, it is important to check trends which might indicate unusual spikes in certain parameters, a route cause analysis is necessary to ensure these increasing trends do not lead to an out of specification or non conformance or a food safety incident.

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5 Physical testing

Physical testing is the process of using mechanical devices and instruments to measure the physical characteristics and performance of food products. You can use physical testing to detect defects that affect the appearance, functionality, and durability of your product. For example, you can use scales, calipers, thermometers, or meters to check for weight, size, shape, temperature, or pressure of your product. You can also use machines or simulators to test for strength, elasticity, viscosity, or stability of your product under different conditions. Physical testing is reliable and versatile, but it may also be destructive, invasive, or require calibration and maintenance.

If you find any food product defects during testing, you should report them, record them, and trace them to their source. You should also take corrective actions to prevent them from recurring, such as adjusting the recipe, modifying the process, improving the packaging, or changing the supplier. By identifying and preventing food product defects, you can ensure the quality and safety of your food products and satisfy your customers and regulators.

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6 Here’s what else to consider

This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?

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Amey Mahulikar

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Physical, Chemical, microbiological and organoleptic analysis are base for identification of defects. Also process parameters needed to check, as some incomplete processing may lead to error that cause effect after some duration such as pasturisation, sterelisation etc. Defects also have links from RM and PM, need to check carefully RM and PM.

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Ahmed Hussein

Quality Assurance Manager | Food Safety Lead Auditor | Customer Satisfaction Expert | Lean Six Sigma | ISO Standards
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Food product defect could be identified using many methods as shown in the post but to detect the defect type we should have the reference, standard, regulation or product specifications for the product to be compared with the results of analysis. Also retaining samples from the product and be analysed on interval period of time enable us detect any change in the product or emerged defects earlier

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