Food companies are confronted by a host of food safety and quality challenges and hence it is absolutely necessary to ensure that the food is free of physical, chemical, and biological hazards. Equinox Labs is at the forefront of food testing and auditing services, offering unparalleled experience, professional skills, innovative analysis, and the latest technology to ensure quality, safety, and compliance.

The objective of shelf-life testing is to display how a product changes as it ages by a collection of analytical, chemical, microbiological, and sensory evaluation. Simply put, it provides information that helps the food manufacturers to set use by/sell by/best by and expiration dates for the food products.

Water is an essential ingredient in food preparation and therefore, water testing is extremely critical. All necessary water testing guidelines should be followed with precision to ensure that the food product is safe. Water testing for the food processing industry specifies that the water used in any way should comply with bacteriological, physical, and chemical limits and with various other parameters like pH, colour, odour, taste, total dissolved solids, etc. All existing and new food businesses should make sure that water quality is maintained.

FSSAI Label Validation is mandatory for all FBOs. It improves and sustains the image of brand owners. Label Validation can motivate the industry to develop more healthful products and use their potential health effects as a competitive factor, alongside price, taste, and the convenience of packaging.

Nutritional Analysis and Testing helps in confirming the nutrient content of food products. Being a food business operator, nutritional label testing can help you meet all the regulatory requirements and ensure compliance. Nutritional labelling enables consumers to make informed choices with regard to the nutritional characteristics of food like proteins, carbohydrates, fats, fibre, sodium content, etc.

Sensory Evaluation of food is the science that analyses and measures human sensory responses to the composition of food, which is perceived by senses of sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing. Sensory Evaluation of food is an important testing aspect when it comes to new product development and its marketing as it gives an insight into the consumer behaviour and perspective as well as quality assurance.