Inc. Every food-testing laboratory should be committed to providing accurate and timely chemical and microbial analysis to ensure consistent and wholesome food products. With today's competitive marketplace and increased emphasis on food safety, food quality issues have come to the forefront. But quality programs can be very expensive and laboratory testing can contribute significantly to the cost.
Many microbiological procedures are available to food microbiologists.
Rapid testing procedures have gained steady acceptance over the past few years. Several years ago, I coined the acronym FACE to describe some or the characteristics that best fit the food industry's needs concerning rapid micro testing systems. Rapid systems fit nicely with today's increased emphasis on food safety combined with production pressures to produce and deliver food products in a timely manner. Tensions can run high when a product is needed by a customer, but cannot be released until micro results are completed A quick turn around of micro results can benefit both the food company and its customers. When a rapid microbiological procedure is considered for use in the Tyson Laboratory System, we conduct a battery of tests being approved methodologies along with the test being evaluated.