Many different materials come into contact with food and beverages during production, packaging, and transport processes, right up to preparation and serving. The quality and integrity of these materials must be evaluated by suppliers to meet various regulatory guidelines around the globe.
While food contact materials must be approved for use, some compounds can still migrate into the food product, impacting quality and posing potential risks to consumer health.
Variables such as heat, storage time, food type, and container size can impact the rate at which these compounds migrate. These include substances intentionally added to packaging materials such as plasticizers and heat stabilizers and non-intentionally added substances such as reaction byproducts, degradation products, and contaminants.
With an abundance of packaging options, it would be easy to miss a newly migrated compound ,which could significantly damage your brand reputation.
The demand for innovative packaging materials is rising, and with it, there is a growing list of thousands of additives that could migrate into food products. You need solutions you can trust to confidently quantify and unambiguously identify harmful compounds from food contact materials and easily report across targeted and nontargeted analyses of volatiles, semi-volatiles, nonvolatiles, and elemental impurities.
Thermo Fisher Scientific is your partner enabling you to rapidly deploy scalable solutions to meet regulations faster from automation of tedious sample extraction protocols to efficient and easy to deploy chromatography and mass spectrometry solutions that maximize throughput and enable detection of ultra-low levels of known and unknown migrated compounds.
You can rely on solutions for even the toughest unknown identification challenges that will provide you with high-confidence data, saving hours of work and helping you to stay ahead of evolving regulations and achieve timely reportable results using integrated software analysis tools that streamline every step of data collection and analysis, making everyday quantitation and confirmatory results easier.
Learn how you can protect your brand, improve consumer safety, and streamline your operations now and into the future with Thermo Fisher Scientific.