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large and small manufacturers and retailers.
Peter Brassington, general manager at the Exova Grimsby laboratory, said: “Te investment is an important development for Exova, and forms part of the Food and Consumer Products division’s long-term strategy, which includes plans for further expansion of our global testing facilities and capabilities in the future. We can now offer our clients a much greater volume of testing while also offering a unique web-based service for the storage, manipulation, retrieval, reporting and trending of analytical data. Te investment enhances our position as one of the leading food testing companies in the world and we are already seeing clients take advantage of this increased capacity”.
Fig. 2. Governments and food manufacturers believe training is essential to meet today’s food safety challenge.
(Fig.1). Te IFSTL will have the ability to teach 200 professionals per year and will be operated by JIFSAN.
“Tis uncommon collaboration promises a powerful response to a serious and growing international concern,” says University of Maryland president Wallace D Loh. “Joining academic, private sector and government expertise makes a lot of sense, and is a uniquely effective way to build international scientific capacity and food safety.”
Te IFSTL is equipped with Waters- provided state-of-the-art ultra performance liquid chromatography, with photodiode array, fluorescence
and mass spectrometry detection.
Investment Finally, Exova’s flagship food testing laboratory has doubled its microbiological analysis capability after a £250 000 investment from the business. Te laboratory, based in Grimsby, now has the resources to process over 4000 samples per day, making it one of the largest food testing laboratories in the UK.
As well as undergoing a complete refurbishment the layout of the laboratory has been redesigned to capture the most efficient way to handle and test the submitted food samples.
Te objective was to minimise the test process and maximise the process controls to protect the sample integrity.
Great emphasis has been placed on temperature control and segregation between low and high risk product types at all stages of the process.
Te enhanced microbiological service allows Exova to analyse a greater number of foods to ensure microbial safety and product quality.
Pathogen detection Te UKAS-accredited laboratory provides pathogen detection and screening for microbial quality for
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Next-day testing service on nutritional chemistry Samples received by 10am Monday to Thursday, will
clipse Scientific Group has expanded its nutritional testing capabilities with the launch of a new ‘next-day’ testing service for nutritional
chemistry. The new service will be carried out at the company’s laboratory at Chatteris in Cambridgeshire and covers group one and group two analysis including cis trans and component tests. The service covers ash, carbohydrates, dietary fibre, energy, fats, fatty acids, moisture, protein, sodium and sugar.
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have their results reported by 5pm the following day (samples received on Friday will normally be reported on Monday unless agreed in advance). Increased customer choice was the driving force
for the new service, according to Eclipse sales and marketing director Nigel Richards: “Great customer service is very important to us and we aim to set the pace in an increasingly competitive marketplace. Our
Meanwhile, Exova’s laboratories in Plzen, Czech Republic, and Newcastle, UK, have shared a £300,000 investment into their creep strain facilities. In total, 42 test frames are being upgraded with a new, sophisticated automated control system. Of the 42 frames, 10 are being upgraded in Plzen and 32 in Newcastle. Of these, eight frames will have a test temperature capability up to 1,200ºC. All frames will be operational by the end of the year, and the extra capacity will help meet increased worldwide demand for this test type.
Te new control system is capable of controlling temperature, strain measurement and load control on any type of creep test.
current fast-track three-day service is very popular and used extensively by many of our customers. Launching a premium next-day service was the logical next step; it gives customers more choice with regard to balancing their turnaround requirements with their budgetary constraints. In today’s market, product launches are often condensed into short time frames and the new service will help our customers to meet the demands of the retailers.”
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