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Comprehensive Inspection and Testing Service for Food Factories

Time: 2022-09-15

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1. Project Background

Currently, food quality and safety have become the focus of social attention. The state has continuously increased its supervision over the food industry. The implementation of a series of laws and regulations such as the "Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China" has put forward more stringent requirements for the product quality of food production enterprises. As the source of food production, food factories directly relate their product quality to the health and safety of consumers. To help food factories strictly control the product quality, ensure that products meet relevant standards and regulatory requirements, and enhance the market competitiveness of enterprises, our company specially launches a comprehensive inspection and testing service plan.

2. Service Objectives

  • Ensure food quality and safety: Through comprehensive and detailed inspection and testing, timely detect potential quality and safety hazards in the food production process, ensure that the products produced by food factories meet national food safety standards, and guarantee consumers' edible safety.

  • Comply with regulatory and standard requirements: Assist food factories in meeting the requirements of relevant national and local food safety laws, regulations, and standards, and avoid risks such as penalties and recalls due to unqualified product quality.

  • Improve enterprise product quality: Provide professional testing data and analysis reports for food factories, help enterprises understand the product quality status, optimize production processes, improve product formulas, and thereby enhance the product quality level.

  • Reduce enterprise operational risks: Through early detection and risk early warning, reduce economic losses and brand reputation damage caused by product quality problems, and lower the operational risks of enterprises.

3. Service Scope

3.1 Raw Material Inspection

Strictly inspect various raw materials purchased by food factories to ensure qualified raw material quality and control food quality from the source. The specific testing items are as follows:

  • Agricultural product raw materials: Detect pesticide residues (such as organophosphorus, organochlorine, etc.), veterinary drug residues (such as antibiotics, hormones, etc.), heavy metals (such as lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, etc.), pollutants (such as nitrite, etc.), moisture, impurities, sensory indicators, etc.

  • Food additives: Detect content, purity, impurities, heavy metals, microorganisms and other indicators to ensure compliance with relevant standards such as "Standard for the Use of Food Additives" (GB 2760).

  • Packaging materials: Detect migration (such as heavy metals, harmful substance migration), sealing performance, barrier performance, sensory indicators, etc., to ensure that packaging materials are safe and hygienic and do not affect food quality.

3.2 Production Process Control Testing

Conduct inspection and testing at key links in the food production process to timely grasp the quality changes during the production process and ensure that the production process meets quality control requirements.

  • Semi-finished product inspection: Detect sensory indicators, physical and chemical indicators (such as pH value, moisture, acidity, sugar content, etc.), microbial indicators (such as total bacterial count, coliform bacteria, etc.) to determine whether the semi-finished products meet the requirements of the next production link.

  • Production environment testing: Detect the air cleanliness of the production workshop, the number of microorganisms (such as total bacterial count, mold and yeast, etc.), surface hygiene (such as microbial contamination of equipment, tools, ground, walls, etc.) to ensure that the production environment meets hygiene standards.

  • Equipment and tool testing: Detect the cleanliness and microbial contamination of equipment and tools to avoid food quality problems caused by equipment and tool contamination.

3.3 Finished Product Inspection

Comprehensively inspect the finished products produced by food factories to ensure that the finished product quality meets relevant standards and regulatory requirements before leaving the factory for sale. Testing items include:

  • Sensory indicators: Including appearance, color, smell, taste, texture, etc., to judge food quality through sensory evaluation.

  • Physical and chemical indicators: Such as moisture, ash, protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, pH value, acidity, sugar content, peroxide value, acid value, etc.

  • Microbial indicators: Such as total bacterial count, coliform bacteria, pathogenic bacteria (such as Salmonella, Staphylococcus aureus, Shigella, Listeria, etc.), mold and yeast, etc.

  • Heavy metal indicators: Such as lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, etc.

  • Agricultural and veterinary drug residue indicators: For foods produced using agricultural product raw materials, detect the corresponding agricultural and veterinary drug residues.

  • Food additive indicators: Detect the types and contents of food additives in food to ensure compliance with national standard requirements.

  • Nutritional component indicators: Test according to the nutritional component table marked on the food label to ensure the accuracy of nutritional component content.

3.4 Entrusted Inspection

Provide personalized entrusted inspection services according to the special needs of food factories, and inspect the products and items designated by food factories.

3.5 Technical Consulting Services

Provide technical consulting services on food quality and safety for food factories, including standard interpretation, testing method consultation, quality control plan formulation, problem analysis and solution suggestions, etc.

4. Service Process

  1. Consultation and Communication: Food factories contact our company to explain their inspection and testing needs. Our professional personnel conduct detailed understanding and communication on relevant needs, and provide preliminary service plans and quotations for food factories.

  2. Sample Collection: After both parties confirm the cooperation, our company arranges professional sampling personnel to collect samples at the food factory in accordance with relevant standards and specifications to ensure the representativeness and authenticity of the samples. During the sampling process, strictly abide by the sampling procedures and record requirements, and fill in the sampling record form.

  3. Sample Submission for Inspection: After sampling is completed, the sampling personnel properly package and transport the samples to our company's laboratory, and go through the sample handover procedures. The laboratory personnel accept, register and number the samples.

  4. Testing and Analysis: The laboratory conducts inspection and testing on the samples in accordance with the determined testing items and testing methods. During the testing process, strictly abide by the testing standards and operating procedures to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the testing data. At the same time, detailed records are made of the testing process, including instrument and equipment use records, reagent use records, original testing data, etc.

  5. Report Issuance: After the testing is completed, the laboratory personnel organize, analyze and review the testing data to generate an inspection and testing report. The report content includes sample information, testing items, testing results, testing methods, judgment basis, conclusions, etc. After the inspection and testing report is reviewed and confirmed to be correct, it is stamped with the special seal for inspection and testing of our company and delivered to the food factory.

  6. Follow-up Services: After the food factory receives the inspection and testing report, if there are any questions about the report content, our company will answer them in a timely manner. At the same time, according to the needs of the food factory, provide relevant technical consulting services to assist the food factory in solving product quality problems.

5. Testing Standards

Our company conducts inspection and testing in strict accordance with relevant national, industrial and local standards and specifications, mainly based on but not limited to:

  • "Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China" and its implementation regulations

  • GB 2760 Standard for the Use of Food Additives

  • GB 2761 Limits of Mycotoxins in Foods

  • GB 2762 Limits of Contaminants in Foods

  • GB 2763 Maximum Residue Limits of Pesticides in Foods

  • GB 4789 National Food Safety Standard for Food Microbiological Testing

  • GB 5009 National Food Safety Standard for Food Physical and Chemical Testing Methods

  • National standards and industrial standards for related food products, etc.

At the same time, inspection and testing can also be carried out in accordance with international standards, customer-specified standards, etc., according to the requirements of food factories.

6. Case Display

6.1 Case Overview

A large biscuit production enterprise, in order to improve product quality and ensure consumer safety, cooperated with our company and entrusted our company to provide comprehensive inspection and testing services, covering raw material inspection, production process control testing and finished product inspection.

6.2 Service Content

  • Raw material inspection: Inspected the pesticide residues, heavy metals, microorganisms, content and other items of flour, sugar, oil, food additives and other raw materials purchased by the enterprise.

  • Production process control testing: Detected the sensory, physical and chemical, microbial and other indicators of dough and semi-finished biscuits in the production process; detected the air cleanliness and surface hygiene of the production workshop.

  • Finished product inspection: Conducted comprehensive inspection on various biscuit finished products produced by the enterprise, including sensory, physical and chemical, microbial, heavy metal, food additive and other items.

6.3 Service Effects

Through our company's comprehensive inspection and testing services, the biscuit production enterprise timely discovered that the content of a food additive in the raw material slightly exceeded the standard, and promptly replaced the supplier, avoiding the unqualified raw materials from being put into production. During the production process, through the testing of semi-finished products and production environment, the enterprise was helped to optimize the production process and improve the hygiene condition of the production environment. The finished product inspection results showed that the enterprise's product quality met the relevant standard requirements, the product qualification rate increased by 5% compared with before, the enterprise's market competitiveness was effectively enhanced, and consumer satisfaction also improved.

7. Cooperation Guarantee

  • Professional testing team: Our company has a testing team composed of many senior engineers and professional and technical personnel, with rich inspection and testing experience and solid professional knowledge, which can provide accurate and reliable testing services for food factories.

  • Advanced testing equipment: The company is equipped with a series of advanced testing instruments and equipment, such as high-performance liquid chromatography, gas chromatography, atomic absorption spectrophotometer, microbial incubator, sterile operating table, etc., to ensure the smooth progress of testing work and the accuracy of testing data.

  • Strict quality control system: Our company has established a perfect quality control system, passed the CNAS laboratory accreditation, and carried out various work in strict accordance with the requirements of the quality control system, and fully monitored the testing process to ensure the fairness, accuracy and reliability of the inspection and testing results.

  • Rapid response capability: Our company has an efficient service team, which can timely respond to the inspection and testing needs of food factories, complete sample collection, testing and analysis, and report issuance within the agreed time, and provide timely services for food factories.

  • Confidentiality commitment: Our company strictly abides by the confidentiality agreement, strictly keeps the business secrets such as sample information and testing data provided by food factories confidential, and will not disclose them to any third party.