Quality of food plays an important role in an individual life. Food quality gets seriously affected by microbial, physical, chemical factors. Hence food products must be tested for their quality to ensure that they are safe for the consumption by the consumers. CALC undertakes the complete testing of the food products as per relevant standards. Some of the food items tested here are:
Edible Oil
Herb Spices and Condiments
Alcoholic and Non-alcoholic Beverages
Fruit and Packed Fruit Juices
Dairy Products (Milk/ Ghee/Butter/Paneer etc)
Tea and coffee
Wheat/Rice/Maida/Besan
Noodles
Sugar and Sugar products (Confectionery)
Bakery product
Infant food
Namkeen/Biscuits
Pickels
Honey
Cereals, pulses etc
Nut and Nut products
Tobacco and Tobacco products
Food additives and preservative
The food safety issues can enter the food chain at any stage and at any level thus an adequate quality control measure is needed to be implemented at each step. For this, a third party testing laboratory plays an important role in providing accurate and reliable test results from which the quality of a product can be evaluated. These services are to be used by the industries which relates to food products, research institutes, regulatory authorities, etc.