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[[File:|right|250px]] Title: What potential does a LIMS have in improving the safety and satisfaction of food and beverage consumers?
Author for citation: Shawn E. Douglas
License for content: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Publication date: February 2024
Introduction
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We all need clean water and nutritious, safe food. From farm to table, today we've come to expect that growers, harvesters, manufacturers, and distributors will engage in practices that encourage the safety and satisfaction of the foods and beverages we consume. This was not always the case, as it wasn't until the mid- to late 1800s that recognition of bacterial and other forms of contamination occurred in foodstuffs, beverages, and ingredients.[1] With growing acknowledgement of the detrimental health effects of dangerous contamination of and adulteration with toxic substances, additional progress was made in the realm of regulating and testing produced food and beverages—as well as monitoring public health outcomes—by the 1940s.[2] Greater need for monitoring public health outcomes of foodborne illness, paired with stricter regulations and enforcement on participants of the food and beverage supply chain, has necessitated a more robust approach to handle and make sense of increasing amounts of and increasingly complex data and information.[3][4][5] Traditionally handled manually, these paper-based approaches have given way to smoother, more inline digital approaches to maintaining the safety and satisfaction of consumer-driven demand for quality foods and beverages.
A wide variety of data and information can be found in the food and beverage business, just like any other business, from financial records to departmental policies and procedures. But when it comes to food and beverage safety and satisfaction (i.e., quality), we're largely talking about data and information related to verification and end-point analyses (e.g., ingredient testing for purity, environmental monitoring on the manufacturing floor, quality control before packaging) conducted by in-house or third-party laboratories. Here, one of the more likely information management solutions to be found is the laboratory information management system (LIMS). But what potential does such software have towards the goal of providing safer, higher-quality poducts for consumers?
Food safety and quality are driven not only by a business' own internal goals but also by the accrediting and regulatory bodies imposing a set of best practices and data management requirements on the business.
Conclusion
References
- ↑ Roberts, Cynthia A. (2001). The food safety information handbook. Westport, CT: Oryx Press. pp. 25-28. ISBN 978-1-57356-305-5.
- ↑ Hardy, A. (1 August 1999). "Food, Hygiene, and the Laboratory. A Short History of Food Poisoning in Britain, circa 1850-1950" (in en). Social History of Medicine 12 (2): 293–311. doi:10.1093/shm/12.2.293. ISSN 0951-631X. https://academic.oup.com/shm/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/shm/12.2.293.
- ↑ Marvin, Hans J. P.; Janssen, Esmée M.; Bouzembrak, Yamine; Hendriksen, Peter J. M.; Staats, Martijn (24 July 2017). "Big data in food safety: An overview" (in en). Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition 57 (11): 2286–2295. doi:10.1080/10408398.2016.1257481. ISSN 1040-8398. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408398.2016.1257481.
- ↑ Jin, Cangyu; Bouzembrak, Yamine; Zhou, Jiehong; Liang, Qiao; van den Bulk, Leonieke M.; Gavai, Anand; Liu, Ningjing; van den Heuvel, Lukas J. et al. (1 December 2020). "Big Data in food safety- A review" (in en). Current Opinion in Food Science 36: 24–32. doi:10.1016/j.cofs.2020.11.006. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2214799320301260.
- ↑ Pierquet, J.; Lozinak, K.; Fruechting, P. (12 October 2022). "TechTalk Podcast Episode 4: Data Exchange in the New Era of Smarter Food Safety". New Era of Smarter Food Safety TechTalk Podcast. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. https://www.fda.gov/food/new-era-smarter-food-safety-techtalk-podcast/techtalk-podcast-episode-4-data-exchange-new-era-smarter-food-safety. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
