Testing of foods

AAoisture determination is probably one of the most important and most widely used analytical measurements in the processing and testing of food products. It is of economic importance both to the consumer and to the food technologist. To the technologist, the moisture content is frequently an index of stability and quality of food, while to the consumer, it may serve as a measure of quantity as well as a measure of quality. 

Experiment 59 Qualitative Testing of Food Products for Carbohydrates... 

With respect to toxicity testing of food additives, guidance is given in the so-called Redbook. The Redbook is the popular name for the guidance document Toxicological Principles for the Safety Assessment of Direct Food Additives and Color Additives Used in Food. The original Redbook was published in 1982 (Redbook I) and subsequently revised in 1993 (draft Redbook II). The current version is Redbook 2000 (US-FDA 2006b). 

Fujita H, Aoki N, Sasaki M Mutagenicity test of food additives with Salmonella typhimurium TA97 and TA102. IX. Tokyo-Toritsu Eisei Kenkyusho Kenkyu Nenpo 45 191-99, 1994... 

The FDA Redbook provides t ie de facto regulatory guidelines for the developmental and reprodnctive toxicity testing of food additives. The full title of this document is Toxicological Principles for the Safety Assessment of Food. The current version (Redbook II) was released in July 2000 and was reformatted for online use in 2007 (I). 

Integrated strategies for the risk management of mycotoxins include, among others, the testing of food products, whatever the ultimate goal of the test is. The control of mycotoxins in grains is... 

Peleg, M. and Normand, M.D. (1982). A computer assisted analysis of some theoretical rate effects in mastication and in deformation testing of food. J. Food Sci. 47, 1572-1578. 

If the desire is to develop a biosensor for industrial use, then a set of specifications for sensor performance, which includes economic criteria, should be obtained from the end-user before any work begins. Statements such as this surface/binding phenomenon/electrode reaction could be turned into a biosensor for food safety monitoring when the work has been done in the absence of specifications set by those responsible for carrying out tests of food safety are highly likely to remain... 

One comment recommended that FDA review and revise current U.S. guidelines for toxicity testing of food additives as outlined in the Toxicological Principles for the Safety Assessment of Direct Food Additives... 

As mentioned earlier, the "Redbook" decision-tree system for determining toxicological testing of food additives falls Into three levels of concern 13.111. whereas there are four FEMA concern levels, each determined by combining Information about the human exposure levels to a compound with the Information about Its chemical structure derived from a 33-questlon "decision tree" Q2). 

Tice P and Cooper I, 1997, Rationalizing the testing of food contact plastics. In R. Ashby, I. Cooper, S. Harvey and P. Tice Food Packaging Migration and Legislation. Pira International, Leatherhead 1997 (Chapter 5, p 155). 

An Evaluation of the Decision Free Approach for Assessing Priorities for Safety Testing of Food Additives. 

Gunasekaran, S., and Ak, M.M. (2000). Dynamic oscillatory shear testing of foods selected applications. Trends Food Sci. Technol. 11, 115-127. 

To comply with the general requirements of Article 3 of the EU Regulation 1935/2004 sufficient sensory inermess of the PCR PET products as food contact articles needs to be assured. Therefore appropriate sensory testing of food contact articles made from super-clean products is recommended. As worse case test conditions for this purpose, storage of the article in direct contact with water for ten days at 40 °C have been generally accepted. However, depending on the particular application, modified tests may be more suitable. 

Boston Bioprobes is producing PNAs for oligo research, development of diagnostics, testing of foods, and the environment. Perkin-Elmer (now largely renamed Analytical Biosystems, Foster City, CA) has invested with BBI and will participate in PNA technology. 

DrasarBS, Hill MJ, Williams REO. 1970. The significance of the gut flora in safety testing of food additives. InMetabolic Aspects of Food Safety, ed. FJC Roe, pp. 245-60. New York Academic... 

EU Directive 97/48/EC (amending 82/711/EEC) EU Council Directive 97/48/EC on testing of food contact plastics for chemical migration. 

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