Background on Food Adulteration
Food adulteration refers to artificially and purposefully adding some non-intrinsic ingredients to food to increase its weight or volume and reduce costs; or to change a certain quality to inferior color, the behavior of fragrance and taste to cater to consumers' psychology. The current situation of food adulteration on the market is getting worse. For example, melamine or hydrolyzed leather is added to milk to increase the protein content of more than 3%. Using industrial alcohol instead of edible alcohol to make fake alcohol. Due to the existence of some unknown ingredients in food, it is still very difficult to identify adulteration of food.
Adulteration Test Kits
Food adulteration test kits are common tools for detecting adulteration components in food, as well as important means to ensure food safety. Food adulteration test kits can be divided into the following categories:
- Detection of edible inferior raw materials used for adulteration in the original food: such as detecting flavors in meat, animal oils in plant oils, and pigments in fruits, etc.
- Detection of non-edible substances (hazardous substances) used for adulteration in the original food: such as detecting melamine in milk and dairy products, industrial alcohol in edible alcohol, industrial salt in edible salt, sulfur dioxide in seafood, etc.
Fig 1. Some examples of food adulteration.
Advantages of Our Adulteration Test Kits
- A variety of food adulteration detection technologies (chromatography technology, spectroscopy technology, electronic nose, DNA-based technology, immunological technology, thermal techniques etc.) were adopted to develop test kits.
- It can operate multiple kits to measure multiple components at the same time, short measuring period and high measuring sensitivity.
- Food adulteration detection reagents include 11+ categories of food (milk and milk products, meat and meat products, fish and seafood, oils and fats, fruit juice, coffee and tea, alcoholic beverages, spices and extracts, sweeteners (including honey), cereals and pulses, and organic foods).
- The kits contents are safe and equipped with detailed product instructions, which is simple, fast and convenient to operate.
Alfa Chemistry provides a broad range of food adulteration test kits for milk and milk products, meat and meat products, fish and seafood, oils and fats, fruit juice, coffee and tea, alcoholic beverages, spices and extracts, sweeteners (including honey), cereals and pulses, and organic foods etc. We are committed to producing fast, efficient, safe and inexpensive food adulteration test kits to meet your requirements. If you are interested in our products, welcome to contact us for products quotations and more detailed information.
It should be noted that our products are for research purposes only. Not suitable for any clinical use.
