Aprofood offers comprehensive solutions for a wide range of food types, ensuring that every customer can find the service items suitable for specific samples here. We guarantee the quality of the testing work to quickly detect food quality risks and maintain the safety of the food market.
Why Test Irradiated Foods?
Food irradiation is similar to pasteurization in that both methods are used to eliminate spoilage microorganisms and pathogens in food, thereby extending its shelf life. Unlike pasteurization, food irradiation uses ionizing radiation energy such as gamma rays, X-rays, and electron beams to kill bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites, while completely preserving the texture, appearance, and flavor of the food. Irradiation sterilization technology is widely applicable to products such as spices, seasonings, fruits, vegetables, raw milk, fresh meat, and eggs. The controversy surrounding food irradiation lies in the potential impact of irradiation by-products on human health.
Regulatory practices for food irradiation vary among countries, with some countries prohibiting the use of this technology. It is often impossible to distinguish irradiated food by appearance, and this usually requires professional and expensive equipment for testing.
Our Service
Aprofood employs internationally recognized standard technical methods and testing instruments to conduct comprehensive irradiated food testing. Beyond analyzing the ionizing radiation status, we also provide a full-spectrum evaluation encompassing nutritional analysis, contaminant analysis, and storage stability analysis, tailored specifically to each client's unique samples and requirements.
Categories We Can Test
Our services are applicable to a wide range of food categories. Whether you want to test the irradiation dose of a sample labeled as irradiated food or you suspect that your specific food has undergone ionizing radiation treatment and need to verify it, we can provide the service. Including but not limited to the following categories:
- Spices
- Herbs
- Fresh Vegetables
- Fresh Meat
- Poultry Eggs
- Tea
- Freeze - Dried Vegetables
- Dietary Supplements
Test Items
Irradiation Testing
By utilizing thermoluminescence (TL) technology, optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) technology, and photo-stimulated luminescence (PSL) technology, we comprehensively determine whether food has undergone ionizing radiation treatment. Additionally, we perform semi-quantitative/quantitative detection of food irradiation doses to ensure accurate and reliable test results, avoiding false positives or false negatives.
Irradiation By-Product Testing
Detection of volatile toxic by-products such as toluene, benzene, and furans, which may induce human diseases.
Routine Physicochemical Testing
Quantitative analysis of moisture, carbohydrates, fat, protein, crude fiber, vitamins, minerals, soluble solids, sodium chloride, etc.
Conduct material migration testing for packaging of different food products, including color migration, overall migration, and specific migration.
A professional sensory evaluation team and advanced texture analysis equipment will conduct a comprehensive assessment of your food in terms of appearance, odor, taste and texture.
Aprofood has mastered advanced instrumental analysis techniques and rapid testing technologies, ensuring the delivery of personalized services, enabling each client to ultimately receive a comprehensive, tailor-made food testing report. For detailed information on irradiated food testing and other food testing services, please contact us to obtain a customized solution and quotation.
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