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The Importance of Food Chemistry Testing in Uncovering Hidden Dangers

A recent study published in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology has revealed alarming findings: over 3,600 chemicals leach into food during manufacturing, processing, p...
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The Critical Role of Carbon Dioxide Testing in SA’s Beverage Industry

AssureCloud is proud to be one of the few labs in SA that offer Carbon Dioxide (CO2) testing - and is playing a critical role in the country’s thriving beverage industry. Behind the scenes of th...
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The Advantages of Wet Chemistry in Modern Analytical Testing

Wet chemistry, also referred to as classical chemistry, is one of the oldest methods of analysing the chemical composition of substances. Despite advancements in modern instrumentation, wet chemist...
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How to Ensure Your Pet’s Food is Safe: What Tests and Certifications to Look For

As a pet owner, you want the best for your furry companion. One of the most crucial aspects of ensuring their well-being is the food you provide. However, with so many options on the market, it’s e...
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Ensuring Pet Health and Safety through Pet Food Analysis

Pet owners worldwide rely on commercial pet food to meet their pets' nutritional needs. Just as people require a balanced diet to maintain optimal health, so do our pets. The increasing awareness o...
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Why Nutritional Analysis and Testing Underpins Good Health

Accurate and reliable nutritional labels are the cornerstone of informed dietary choices, but they hinge on rigorous nutritional analysis and testing.

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Give Your Customer No Reason To Doubt Your Water

In 2022, just two years ago, at least 1.7 billion people used a drinking water source that was contaminated with faeces. Water contaminated with microbes as a result...
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Avoiding Triggers: The Importance of Allergen Testing

Did you know that allergen testing plays a crucial role in ensuring the safety and integrity of food products? Allergens are substances that can trigger allergic reactions in susceptible individ...
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Why are food labels necessary?

It’s a situation many of us can relate to – we’ve picked up a packaged item of food, and although we know we should, we often don’t have the time to study the label at the back of the can. Nutri...
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The Benefits of Using Specialised Testing Labs

Microbiology, chemistry, and diagnostic testing are just a few of the services provided by specialised testing labs like AssureCloud. These services are vital to the regulatory compliance, quality ...
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All you Need to Know about Product Chemistry Testing

Product chemistry testing in food safety is a critical process that ensures the safety, quality, and compliance of food products. This testing involves a range of analytical techniques and methods ...
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What is Microbiological Testing for Food Safety?

Microbiological analysis of food products is an essential part of guaranteeing the quality and safety of food products. Testing food samples for the presence of dangerous microorganisms like Salmon...
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The Benefits of Food Safety Testing: Chemistry Laboratory

The Assurecloud chemistry test laboratory plays a critical role in ensuring the safety and quality of food products, benefiting consumers, producers, and regulatory authorities alike. Le...
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The Importance of Allergen Testing

Allergen testing is a crucial aspect of food safety management that involves the identification and quantification of specific allergenic substances in food products. Allergens are proteins or prot...
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What is Mycotoxin Testing and Why is it Important?

Toxic secondary metabolites produced by moulds (fungi), are called mycotoxins and are identified and measured using a crucial analytical procedure called mycotoxin testing. A broad variety of ag...
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What Makes FSSC 24000 Different from Other Social Management System Audits?

FSSC 24000 is the audit and certification Scheme for Social Management Systems (SMS) that aligns with the ISO Management System approach and the ISO Harmonized Structure. The Scheme is based on ...
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Ensuring Food Safety and Hygiene Compliance in South Africa with food safety Inspection services

In South Africa, where food safety and hygiene hold paramount importance, Assurecloud plays a pivotal role by specializing in comprehensive inspections. These inspections encompass microbiological ...
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The Crucial Role of Food Safety and Hygiene Inspections with Microbiological Testing in the Food Retail Sector

In the food retail sector, ensuring the safety and quality of food products is a high priority. Foodborne illnesses can have severe consequences, ranging from consumer health risks to tarnishing a ...
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Unveiling the Power Of Nutritional Analysis Testing with Assurecloud

In a world where health-consciousness is on the rise, knowing what we consume has never been more critical. Food manufacturers, retailers, and consumers all share a common interest in ensuring that...
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Poultry Disease Diagnosis: Ensuring Healthy Flocks

Poultry farming plays a vital role in meeting the global demand for high-quality protein. However, the health and well-being of poultry flocks are constantly threatened by various diseases. Rapid a...
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Nutritional Testing

The process of determining a food's nutritional value is called nutritional analysis. It serves as an essential component of analytical chemistry and offers a variety of data that the company uses ...
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Importance of Diagnostic Testing for the Poultry Industry

Every day, diseases pose a threat to the poultry industry. Intensive poultry production must include laboratory analysis such as diagnostic testing as it is essential for identifying, verifying, an...
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Impacts of the New Food Labelling Regulation on Retailers

Food labels are important as they offer important and valuable information about what each food item contains. The new food labelling regulation has just been introduced and the impact of the new r...
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FSSC 24000 and the Importance of Social Compliance Management Systems

In recent years, social compliance has become an increasingly important issue for companies across a wide range of industries. From consumer goods to manufacturing, companies are under increasing p...
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The Importance of Food Health Risk Assessments

Risk assessments throughout the food chain have become a requirement of many standards. Food health risk assessments are important for several reasons, includ...
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Mycotoxin Testing and Analysis

Mycotoxins are toxic compounds that are produced by various fungi and can be found in a wide range of food and feed commodities. These toxins can cause serious health problems in humans and animals...
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Heavy Metal Analysis in the Food and Beverage Industry

Heavy Metal Analysis in the Food and Beverage Industry and Why It's Important

Food safety is a critical concern in the food and beverage industry, as it directly impacts the health and we...
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Why are food safety and hygiene audits important for food preparation facilities?

Food safety and hygiene audits are critical components of food preparation facilities in South Africa. These audits help ensure that food products are safe for consumption, thereby protecting publi...
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The Importance of Food Allergen Testing

Food allergen testing is a necessary step to take to ensure that you keep consumers safe, especially those who have food allergies. An allergic reaction to a specific food is the body’s response an...
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What Type of Food Safety Training Do You Need?

Every day, millions of consumers interact with food, whether it is being sold, consumed or processed. Food Safety is Essential According to the ...
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The Importance Of Asbestos Testing

Up until the late 1980s, asbestos was commonly used in all forms of construction as building material due to its natural resistances and strength. So what exactly is...
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Assurecloud Labs – Leading The Way in Product Chemistry Testing

Over the past few years, the general public has become increasingly aware of what goes into products they’re buying, but how does one ascertain what a product consis...
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Why Products Need To Go Through Product Chemistry Testing

Consumers are more aware of food safety than ever before, and are hyper-aware of what ingredients are used in the products they purchase. Together with this increasi...
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The Importance Of Food Safety Training

Consumers are in contact with food businesses in many ways - from fast-food and takeaways to convenience foods and formal dining. In each of these businesses, the po...
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Why Is Nutritional Analysis In Food Important For Businesses?

Food labels and comprehensive information about what each product contains has gained importance in recent years, as consumers...
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Improving Microbiological Testing Lab Efficiencies And Performance Through Improved Technology

There is increased awareness among consumers about the safety of the food that they consume. This - among other factors - has led to increased demand for microbiolog...
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What Does a Food Safety Audit Entail?

It is critical that establishments offering food services, from restaurants, supermarkets and hotels to fast food outlets, corporate kitchens and catering services, adhere to a solid food safety p...
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Food Quality Compliance Testing: Whose Responsibility Is It?

Imagine you’ve just sent out a batch of products to be sold in retail, only to find out there was significant spoilage and somebody has been harmed. It’s a frightening thought, not only because of...
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The Basics of Food Safety Accredited Training

As a business in the food value chain, food safety training is a must for the success and endurance of your organisation. Food safety is critical to ensuring consumer safety and trust. This is ...
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What is Biotoxin Testing in Seafood?

There is a common misconception that food straight from nature is always ready to be eaten immediately. It comes from the earth or the ocean so it should be safe right? Not always. Some seafood...
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Are You Ensuring Dairy Product Safety?

Dairy is a staple in many people’s diet. It is an accessible and affordable food group that many people rely on to sustain a healthy lifestyle. As a result, we are sure we do not need to emphasize...
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Aflatoxin: A Major Concern for Food Safety

As a business in the food supply chain, toxic chemicals are a threat that we all face. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), about 600 million people become sick after eating contamina...
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Food Safety: Chemistry Testing

When you think of food products, do you think of chemicals? As a food or beverage manufacturer you should. Food chemistry – or chemistry testing to be more specific ...
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Food Safety: Diagnostic Testing

Did you know that food safety testing also involves helping sick animals? It may sound surprising but the field is a lot broader than most people think.  <...
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Food Safety: Microbiology Testing

What does microbiology have to do with food safety? More than you think. It is one of the main aspects of overall testing in South Africa, in fact. Failing to do the...
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What you need to know about nutritional profiling

To consumers, a label on a food product is nothing but a guide to help them make purchasing choices. But to manufacturers of foodstuffs, the labels are much more than that. Labels on food product...
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Why your products need to go through a food chemistry testing lab

Do you produce the type of food items that need nutritional labels? Is there a chance that your products might be contaminated with harmful toxins? Are you serious about ensuring a strong brand r...
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Food Safety vs Food Quality Compliance Testing: What’s The Difference?

Food quality is commonly confused with food safety. But, while the two are undoubtedly linked to each other, they have some important differences. And, these differe...
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An Outline of Food Safety Compliance Audits

As you know, food safety...
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Microbiology Lab Food Testing: An Explanation

As you probably know, food safety is of utmost importance if your business is in any way part of the food industry. What many people don’t know is that a microbiolog...
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Food Safety South Africa: What You Need To Know

Food safety is a massive responsibility. If you defy food safety requirements, then you may be risking the lives of many people. As such, you need to understand it f...
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COVID-19 – making a positive impact on occupational health

It’s not difficult to see COVID-19 as an overwhelmingly negative force. Leaving aside the rate of infection and the global death toll, there’s the complete change to our way of life as well, not to...
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The importance of safe sample transport

When it comes to the integrity of samples and specimens, ensuring their safe transport to laboratories and testing facilities is of vital importance. Guaranteeing secure collection, transport and d...
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Creating a culture of food safety

Have you ever looked at a plate of food and wondered exactly what goes into making it? More than simply growing, nurturing and rearing the individual ingredients, there’s also the crucial task of e...