Food & Beverage

Food & Beverage

Optimize Shelf Life and Assure Total Package Integrity

To compete in today’s global economy, food companies are increasing their focus on safety and quality. Shelf-life limitations have a major impact on profitability and brand acceptance with the consumer. Spoilage can occur for a number of reasons:

Subjective approach to shelf-life estimation
Inadequate package integrity
- Package Leaks
- Seal Integrity
- Proper Gas Mixtures
Ingredient impurities and process contamination
Microbial spoilage

All can lead to product recalls and lost revenue.

Meeting the target shelf life and sustaining product quality that is both fresh and safe are essential criteria for food and beverage success. You need analytical tools with high performance and accuracy to guarantee customer satisfaction.

At AMETEK MOCON, we provide both quality assurance and quality control monitoring solutions for your food and beverage packaging to maintain package integrity and safeguard the quality of your products.Our goal is to provide you with the tools and services to enable you to achieve your goals through a quantitative approach to shelf-life improvement.

Solutions:

Instruments to analyze transmission rates of flat films
Testing finished packages for permeation rates
Measuring dissolved oxygen and headspace gases
Package Leak detection
Gas mixing & gas monitoring of Modified Atmosphere Packaging
Inline gas purity analysis
Rapid Microbial Detection

AMETEK MOCON’s consulting and testing services can help you lower your costs and get you to market faster by:

Helping to design, develop, troubleshoot and validate your packaging system
Conducting accelerated shelf life studies
Barrier Analysis and material assessments

Select a related item from the list below to continue exploring or contact us to discover more:

Bakery

Packaging baked goods like bread, tortillas, and wraps, when done right, increases the shelf life of your bakery items.

Beverage

Beverage carbonation and packaging is critical to your final product’s quality and customer impression. For carbonated beverages, you need to ensure your CO2 is pure and free from impurities; for all beverages, the dispenser and closure mechanism of the beverage container is crucial to the beverage’s quality.

Cereal/Grain

Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) of your cereal and grain products like rice, corn, wheat, and millet, increases the shelf life of your cereals and grains.

Coffee

The coffee production process requires quality control and package testing, from roasting through to final product packaging.

Cured Meat

Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) of cured meats like cold cuts, luncheon meats, and prosciutto, when done right, increases the shelf life of your cured meats.

Dairy

Producing and packaging dairy products, like cheese and butter, requires process monitoring and control in the production process; and often modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) to protect and preserve the dairy product from producer to consumer.

Dry Foods

Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) of your dried food products like nuts, chips, and snack foods, increases the shelf life of your dried products.

Fish & Seafood

Packaging fresh seafood, including shrimp, lobsters and fatty fish like herring, when done right, increases the shelf life of your seafood.

Fresh Meat

Packaging fresh meat, including beef, pork and poultry, when done right, increases the shelf life of your meat.

Fresh Pasta

Packaging fresh pasta, including fettuccine, linguine and macaroni, when done right, increases the shelf life of your pasta product.

Pet Food

Packaging pet food with premium ingredients can get expensive if those ingredients don’t have a long shelf-life and the pet food spoils.

Produce

Packaging fresh produce, including packaged fruits and vegetables, when done right, increases the shelf life of your produce.

Ready-to-Eat

Ready-to-Eat foods, especially those with a variety of food types, can be challenging to package.

Supermarket

Supermarkets sell a variety of on-site packaged food items that require good packaging. Your challenge as a quality professional or technical expert overseeing this operation is to ensure these packages have good shelf life.

Supplements

At AMETEK MOCON, we our experts in package permeation testing and modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) QA/QC

To ensure traceability in all aspects of Quality Assurance, AMETEK MOCON has integrated recognized quality systems into all our key business processes, ensuring we comply with regional legislative requirements. Key certifications are outlined below and are available for download.

Our certifications include:

ISO 9001
ISO 17025

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