Types of food safety testing laboratories

What is food safety? Food safety means that food is non-toxic and harmless, meets the due nutritional requirements, and does not cause any acute, subacute or chronic harm to human health.

Food safety is "the public health problem of the effects of toxic and harmful substances in food on human health". Food safety is also an interdisciplinary field that specializes in ensuring food hygiene and food safety during food processing, storage, and sales, reducing the risk of disease and preventing food poisoning, so food safety is important.

Therefore, it is imperative to build a food testing laboratory. The food safety testing laboratory is distributed throughout the food circulation link, including not limited to the following links:

Agricultural product raw material: agricultural product rapid inspection laboratories, such as the agricultural product market rapid inspection laboratory, the market supervision and administration food rapid inspection laboratory;

Animal product: The food safety testing laboratory for meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy products led by the Animal Husbandry Bureau.

Food production: Central testing laboratory of food production enterprise,

County / district food safety testing center laboratory;

Circulation: self-constructed or co-constructed food safety testing laboratories such as farmers' markets, supermarkets, and wholesale markets

Government supervision: Entrust a third-party food safety testing laboratory for profit.

Due to different scales, functions, and uses, food safety testing laboratories are classified as follows:

Rapid testing laboratory: fast-food inspection room of farmers market, supermarket, market supervision bureau;

Standard food safety testing laboratories: food safety testing centers, third-party food testing centers;

Food testing laboratory built by the enterprise: The food testing laboratory built by the enterprise is a laboratory that tests the quality of its products according to national standards according to the products produced by the enterprise.

1. Design of food production enterprises


2. Site selection requirements

• The laboratory should be selected in a clean and quiet place, away from living areas, boiler rooms and traffic corridors;


• The laboratory should be located in a place with sufficient light and ventilation, and a certain distance from the production and processing workshop;


• The laboratory should choose a work place that is convenient for sample inspection and inspection and is close to the workshop.

1. Laboratory structure and layout

According to the actual needs of production, general factories should set up comprehensive laboratories with both bacterial and physical and chemical tests, which mainly include the following three parts: bacterial laboratories, physical and chemical laboratories, and offices.

1. Office: Staff administrative office area.

Physical and chemical analysis laboratory: (or merged with the bacterial inspection operation room) ①Physical and chemical analysis room (also serves as sensory inspection room) ② Instrument room (also contains a small amount of instruments such as bacteria room microscope) Bacteria laboratory: ① Bacterial examination operation room; ② None Bacteria room; ③ culture medium production room; ④ washing and disinfection room;

1. Design and constructionof rapid testing laboratory


2. Laboratory design and layout


3. Basic requirements for decoration: the sample room: the floor is flat, non-slip, the wall is latex paint, and there is a rat-proof facility and air conditioning.


4. Physical and chemical laboratory: the ground is smooth, non-slip and anti-corrosion, the wall is latex paint, and there is air conditioning.


5. Laboratory furniture


6. List of laboratory instruments


7. Design of professional food testing laboratory

The food safety testing laboratory professionally involves multiple disciplines such as food chemistry, physics, microbiology, molecular biology, and food sensory evaluation, and functionally involves water supply, drainage, ventilation, exhaust, strong electricity, and weak electricity, air conditioning, fire protection, waste gas, waste liquid treatment, centralized gas supply and other complex process technologies, while also taking into account many factors such as environmental protection, sustainable development, etc. It is a complex system engineering.

Alfa Chemistry provides commercial food safest testing with numerous advanced and convenient techniques. A variety category of foods such as Daily Supplements, Protein Powder, Candy, Coffee, Cookies, Juice, Milk, Refrigerated and Frozen Food can be tested with robust and reliable data to meet our clients' requests and ensure compliance with food safety regulations.