Our laboratories lead the industry in identifying foreign materials, contaminants, off odor problems and solving challenges in the food, beverage, dietary supplement, OTC and ingredient sectors.
Whether it is trying to figure out “What is this?” or "What’s that smell?", we can help with product failures, their causes, and potential solutions.
When the main component of the material is not clear, questions about its suitability or function cannot be addressed.
We can help.
Our extensive resources, instruments, equipment, proprietary techniques, experience & know how from thousands of successful investigations, we can utilize state of the art technologies including but not limited to SEM-EDX, FTIR, NMR, ICP-MS, GC-MS, LC-MS to solve the most challenging problems quickly.
We also perform high level comparative analyses using our spectral libraries with over 250,000 FTIR and RAMAN spectra for matches and over 300,000 GC-MS spectra for matches including NIST library, comprehensive Wiley flavors and fragrance library.
Let us find your solution.
- Contamination Studies
- Foreign or Unknown Material Characterization & Identification
- Off-Flavor, Off-Odor Analysis
- Product Failure Investigation & Root Cause Analysis
- Wine, Spirit, and Beverage Failure Analysis
- Particle Identification & Characterization
- Product Recall Support and Crisis Management
- Legal Projects, Litigation Support, Insurance Claim Support, Expert Witness Services
- Microbiological Spoilage Investigation and Root Cause Analysis
