Do you know your risks?
Here at SFS we want to help you to deliver the best and safest product to your consumers by fully characterising the safety and compliance hazards existing in your product and giving you the best tools to manage the associated risks.
How well do you know your product?
Food is a complex mixture of chemical compounds. Each ingredient has its own characteristics and nutritional profile but is associated also to specific risks.
Do you know that in a single cup of coffee there are more than 1'000 different chemicals molecules?
What do you expect to find?
Milk main constituents are water, lactose, fat, protein, and minerals. Its exact composition varies depending on the species (e.g. cow, goat, sheep), breed (e.g. Holstein, Jersey), the animal's feed and defines its specific nutritional profile.
Do you know that milk can also be contaminated by undesired chemicals, such as aflatoxin M1, veterinary drugs, aluminium, lead, phthalates?
What others are going to find?
Governmental and regulatory bodies, NGOs, consumers associations regularly test food stuff with various analytical methods including spectroscopy (e.g. UV, IR, and NMR), chromatography (e.g. TLC, HPLC, gas chromatography), and hyphenated techniques (e.g. LC–MS, GC–MS, GC–MS/MS) in order to check safety and compliance of finished products.
Do you know that every year more than 2'000 food products are affected by serious food safety incidents only in EU?
Do you know what is the possible impact on the health of your consumers?
Once hazards have been identified risk assessment requires several steps including among others the characterization of toxilogical profile and exposure assessment. This leads up to a decision on whether any measures should be taken in order to prevent harm by this food or ingredient.