The U.S. department of Agriculture (USDA) defines a processed food as one that has undergone any changes to its natural state – that is any raw commodity subjected to washing, cleaning, milling, cutting, chopping, pasteurizing, cooking, canning, freezing, drying, packaging, or any other procedure that alters the food from its natural state. During all these processing steps, the chemical composition of the initial raw material can be dramatically altered.
During the years, PerkinElmer has developed a full range of solutions that cover the needs of a market that is seeing a rapid growth in global demand, from minimal to ultra processed foods.
Our wide range of solutions is able to cover the most diverse needs of such a large and diversified market.
Our efforts aim to provide synergic solution sets for functional testing, on-site food safety, process measurements in brewing, edible oil refining, pet food, confectionary and grain-based food production end-markets.
We deliver ready-to-use solutions to food processors, focused on food quality and in need of reliable suppliers who understand their production process, and support them with application method development, dedicated training and troubleshooting.
To Contract Labs seeking for productivity and focused on food safety, we provide high throughput solutions for a variety of test types such as pathogens, toxins, allergens, micro-nutrients, etc. aligned with current official methods.
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Processed Foods Spotlight
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