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Title: What is the importance of a food and beverage testing laboratory to society?
Author for citation: Shawn E. Douglas
License for content: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Publication date: August 2022
Introduction
Humanity's focus on food and water security remains one of its most important tasks in the twenty-first century,[1][2][3] particularly in the face of growing concerns about the negative ramifications of climate change.[4][5] Without a continued focus on food and water security—including all the quality and safety assurances that come with it—many elements of the world population face a grim reality of insufficient food, limited access to clean water, and malnutrition.[1][6]
In contrast to these stark realities (which are just as much about agricultural practices, societal and governmental practices, public health practices, and human approaches to climate change), much has admittedly improved in the way we ensure food and beverage security and safety, at least compared to times prior to the twentieth century. In fact, the laboratory and the science practiced in it have arguably played a significant role in better ensuring safe, quality food and beverages in our lives. However, the laboratory is only one part of an otherwise "complex adaptive system of governance"[7] that is food safety, which in turn is only one part of a larger system dedicated to food and water security.
This brief topical article will examine how modern society benefits from a food and beverage testing laboratory. It will turn to history, statistical data, and description of the roles such labs play, demonstrating their overall value.
History of laboratories in food and beverage testing
Food, Hygiene, and the Laboratory. A Short History of Food Poisoning in Britain, circa 1850–1950 : https://academic.oup.com/shm/article-abstract/12/2/293/1649538 Feeding the World Today and Tomorrow: The Importance of Food Science and Technology: https://ift.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1541-4337.2010.00127.x
Milk certification and lab testing in late nineteenth century: https://books.google.com/books?id=aeGMDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover
FDA Food Safety Modernization Act
Food Safety 93 to current: https://books.google.com/books?id=LO7eDwAAQBAJ
Minor bits of history, plus food preservation: https://books.google.com/books?id=G2QL_dyS5YAC&pg=PA25
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) Pillsbury, NASA, 1950s; International food safety: https://books.google.com/books?id=D00xd8qNUvYC&pg=PA1
Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA): https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/10/food-labs-integral-to-changing-world-of-food-safety/ AND don't forget LAAF: https://www.limswiki.org/index.php/LII:FDA_Food_Safety_Modernization_Act_Final_Rule_on_Laboratory_Accreditation_for_Analyses_of_Foods:_Considerations_for_Labs_and_Informatics_Vendors
Related statistics
Estimates of Foodborne Illness in the United States - "All told, contaminated food causes 48 million illnesses, 128,000 hospitalizations, and 3,000 deaths each year in the United States." : https://www.cdc.gov/foodborneburden/index.html
Laboratory utilization statistics (2013): https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/10/food-labs-integral-to-changing-world-of-food-safety/
The roles a laboratory may have in the food and beverage industry
Laboratories directly and tangentially related to the food and beverage industry play a number of roles, depending on where they're situated. These roles prove to be important in the greater scheme of industry activities, in turn providing a number of benefits to society. As gleaned from prior discussion, as well as other sources, these laboratory roles can be broadly broken into three categories: research and development (R&D), pre-manufacturing and manufacturing, and regulatory and security.
R&D roles: The laboratory participating in these roles is performing one or more tasks that relate the development or improvement of a food, beverage, additive, spice, or packaging solution. The R&D lab is typically placed outside the manufacturing context proper, but not necessarily always. Some manufacturing companies may have an entire research complex dedicated to creating and improving some aspect of their products.[8] Food and beverage research activities aren't confined to manufacturers, however. Some higher education institutions, such as the Hartwick College Center for Craft Food & Beverage, provide research and development opportunities to students engaging in work-study programs, often in partnership with some other commercial enterprise.[9] These labs may work towards improving packaging, testing a product's shelf life (i.e., stability), conducting flavor or aroma analysis, developing and innovating foodstuffs, reformulating existing products, and researching genetic modifications to ingredients. The end user benefits by having fresher foods that are culinarily pleasing, more nutritious, and safer for consumption.
Pre-manufacturing and manufacturing roles: caloric and nutritional analysis (for labeling), food allergen testing (for ingredients) (see: https://www.microbac.com/allergen-testing), quality control (along the production chain)
Regulatory and security roles: authenticity and adulteration testing, accreditation testing, supply chain/border testing
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) : https://www.fsis.usda.gov/science-data/laboratories-procedures/fsis-laboratories
Conclusion
This brief topical article sought to answer "what is the importance of a food and beverage testing laboratory to society?" It notes that in particular,
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- ↑ "Mondelez International Breaks Ground for New Research & Development Center in Poland". Mondelez International. 8 June 2016. https://ir.mondelezinternational.com/news-releases/news-release-details/mondelez-international-breaks-ground-new-research-development. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
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