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Title: What types of testing occur within a food and beverage laboratory?

Author for citation: Shawn E. Douglas

License for content: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Publication date: August 2022

Introduction

The food and beverage laboratory plays a vital role in helping improve and secure our food supply and the consumable products that get made from it. It does this by playing a number of roles within the overall food and beverage industry, including within the research and development (R&D), pre-manufacturing and manufacturing, and post-production regulation and security phases of food and beverage production. It's within these roles a multi-discipline approach to testing occurs, depending on the role played by the lab. However, regardless of role, all testing boils down to a means of better ensuring safer, more nutritious and delicious foods and beverages.

This brief topical article will borrow from previous discussion about food and beverage laboratories<ref name="DouglasWhatIs22"> and dive deeper into the types of testing taking place within the three primary roles such labs have within the industry.

Broad testing within the industry

Broad testing: https://books.google.com/books?id=KtAdCgAAQBAJ

Laboratory testing guide: https://books.google.com/books?id=i5TdyXBiwRsC&printsec=frontcove

FoodNet Lab Testing: https://wwwn.cdc.gov/FoodNetFast/LabSurvey

Testing within the primary roles of a food and beverage lab

R&D roles

• Processing equipment design and sanitation

https://books.google.com/books?id=iQDoDwAAQBAJ

• Genetic modification for improved yields and nutrition

https://books.google.com/books?id=qePEDwAAQBAJ

• Nutritional reformulation

https://books.google.com/books?id=vE_VDwAAQBAJ

• Flavor/aroma analysis and formulation
• Overall food innovation and development

https://books.google.com/books?id=DnB7AwAAQBAJ https://books.google.com/books?id=jqZJEAAAQBAJ

• Predicting and controlling spoilage
• Improving packaging
• Performing stability tests

https://books.google.com/books?id=YVwNCgAAQBAJ

Pre-manufacturing and manufacturing roles

• Quality control testing

https://books.google.com/books?id=2YmpDwAAQBAJ

• Food sensitivities and allergens
• Nutritional analyses
• Caloric analyses

https://books.google.com/books?id=s3R-EAAAQBAJ

Post-production regulation and security roles

• Authenticity and adulteration testing

https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-8QCgAAQBAJ

• Quality control testing

https://books.google.com/books?id=2YmpDwAAQBAJ

Conclusion

This brief topical article sought to answer "what types of testing occur within a food and beverage laboratory?" It notes that in particular,