Our contract research services offer comprehensive, accurate data for a wide range of research studies that can be customized to meet your needs, including shelf-life testing and more.
Types of Shelf-Life Lab Testing
- Food & Beverage
- Real-time shelf-life studies
- Accelerated shelf-life studies
- Spoilage microorganism growth, organoleptic evaluation, package integrity evaluation, and chemical evaluation
Why choose FSNS Lab+?
- Tailored studies for complex projections
- Full-service support
- Industry expertise
- Accurate, reliable data
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A Test For All Your Needs
Our team is staffed with industry experts and equipped with state-of-the-art technology that you can leverage to answer your most challenging food and beverage questions. We work with food processors, chemical suppliers, equipment manufacturers, antimicrobial producers, test assay developers, industry trade groups and associations, and other industry professionals to validate that their products, processes, and testing methods are working as intended.
Shelf-Life Studies
- Cooler and retail display case refrigerated storage studies
- High precision temperature and humidity chamber stability studies
- Room temperature ambient storage studies
- Spoilage microorganism growth, organoleptic evaluation, package integrity evaluation, and chemical evaluation
- Accelerated shelf life (Q10 Model) studies:
- Elevated temperature storage for ambient temperature products with a long shelf life
- Organoleptic evaluation, package integrity evaluation, and chemical evaluation
Method Validations
- AOAC International method validations
- Independent laboratory validation studies
- Method developer studies
- Official Methods of Analysis collaborative study participation
- Health Canada method validations
- MFLP validation studies
- FSNS internal method validations according to AOAC and Health Canada guidelines
- USP suitability and preparatory testing
Process Validations
- Thermal-process validation studies (both laboratory-based simulations and in-plant with surrogates)
- Non-thermal process validation studies (both laboratory-based simulations and in-plant with surrogates)
- FDA Low-Acid Canned Foods (21 CFR 113) and acidified-product compliance (21 CFR 114) and validation
- Representation of processors and importers with FDA
- Temperature distribution and heat-penetration studies
- Consumer and commercial cook instruction validation
- Thermal process determination, evaluation, and filing
- Process deviation evaluations
- Ethylene oxide, gamma irradiation, and hydrogen peroxide sterilization/validation
- Process filings
- Aseptic processing
- Investigation and resolution of spoilage problems and FDA-detained product
Challenge Studies
- Pathogen challenge studies
- Listeria challenge studies to demonstrate compliance with USDA Alternative 1 or Alternative 2 status, Refrigerated Foods Association guidelines, or other regulatory or industry trade association guidelines
- FDA Food Code required product assessments for determining Temperature Control for Safety (TCS) status
- USP <51> antimicrobial-effectiveness studies for consumer products
- Inoculation with any pathogenic organism
- Spoilage organism challenge studies
- Inoculation with any spoilage organism
- Antimicrobial ingredient minimum inhibitory concentration studies
Additional Testing & Validations
- Microbial strain typing
- Hygiena RiboPrinter® – Genetic Fingerprinting
- Bruker IR Biotyper® – Phenotypic Fingerprinting
- Molecular testing services
- We are a Non-GMO Project Certified Laboratory
- GMO detection and quantification
- Meat speciation
- Virus and parasite detection: Hepatitis A, Norovirus, Cyclospora
- Facility assessment services
- Facility contamination troubleshooting services
- Facility process assessment services
- On-site laboratory audits
- Pre-harvest food safety detection services
- Livestock fecal and tissue sample testing for foodborne pathogens
- Microbial identification
- Bacterial identification – biochemical identification; 16S rRNA gene sequencing
- Fungal identification – biochemical identification; 18S rRNA gene sequencing
- Bacterial toxin testing
- Staphylococcal enterotoxins
- Bacillus cereus diarrheal enterotoxin
- Gram-Negative endotoxin testing
- Data collection and modeling studies
- Thermal modeling studies – collection of thermal data from ovens, fryers, roasters, etc., and modeling to determine foodborne
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