Importance of Inspection, Testing & Certification to ensure NUTRITIVE VALUE OF FOOD

Quality Inspection, Testing, and Certification are essential processes that help to ensure the safety and nutritive quality of foods. These processes help to identify any defects or deviations from desired quality standards and ensure that corrective measures are taken to address them. They also provide consumers with confidence in the safety and quality of the food products they are purchasing.

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has developed several regulations to ensure the safety and quality of food products in India. These regulations cover a wide range of food products and include standards for food products, food additives, contaminants, toxins, residues and laboratory and sampling analysis.

In addition, the FSSAI has also developed regulations for health supplements, nutraceuticals, food for special dietary use, food for special medical purpose, functional food, and novel food. These regulations provide guidelines for the composition of these products and ensure that they deliver the desired level of energy, protein, vitamins, minerals, and other essential nutrients required for respective age group, gender, and physiological stage in accordance with the guidelines made by the Indian Council of Medical Research.

Analysis of foods is of utmost importance from both the consumers and the manufacturers’ standpoint to ensure the safety and quality. It would be economically disastrous, as well as being detrimental to consumers, if a food is harmful or toxic. A food may be considered to be unsafe because it contains harmful microorganisms, toxic chemicals/residues or extraneous matter.

In MSK, we support quality and safety testing requirements of various food industry segments through not only routine chemical and microbiological tests as per food safety regulations, but also through specialized tests/services for Trace Heavy Metals, Label Claims, toxins, vitamins, minerals and shelf life determinations. We also offer custom method development and validation.

Regulatory Compliance Analysis

The Food Testing Services of Mitra S.K. Laboratories cover multiple chemical, microbiological, physical and sensory examinations to analyze the safety and quality of food. Safety and quality testing verifies product compliance with various regulatory standards including Food Safety and standards Authority of India (FSSAI).

? Physicochemical Analysis of Quality parameters

? Nutritional labelling

? Analysis of Additives

? Microbiological Contamination analysis

? Toxic metal contamination analysis

? Residue analysis

Research & Development

Qualified scientists are engaged in the MSK Food Testing lab, under several R&D projects to provide edge to manufacturers’ brand values through science-based analytical tools.

? Marker based standardization

? Enzymatic analysis

? Immuno assays

? Allergen testing (Gluten)

? Antimicrobial activities

? In vitro Antioxidant study

? Shelf life study

? Compositional analysis

? Fingerprint development to ensure batch to batch consistency

? Customized method development as per Customer’s requirement