Shelf Life Testing and Evaluation
The Food Processing Center (FPC) offers shelf-life testing that is customized for each client.
Shelf-life testing serves a variety of issues for the food manufacturer. Whether your shelf life needs are to test packaging material performance, determine the preferred storage and handling conditions for your product, ensure safety, or determine an expiration code date, the common link between all food shelf-life studies is to monitor the deterioration of the food material.
The Food Processing Center has several chambers which can be set at different temperature and humidity levels along with various lighting conditions. By introducing stressful conditions to your product we can accelerate testing for product quality and safety.
Product quality can be monitored through Sensory and Chemical analysis, for changes in flavor, smell, color or texture as well as nutritional quality or loss.
Safety monitoring through various microbiological tests, can determine growth of spoilage bacteria and the presence of pathogens. Inoculation studies are also available.
Evaluations offered at the Food Processing Center to monitor your shelf-life are:
