Case Studies

Natural and synthetic food dyes are used in almost all industries. Understanding the potential for dye adulteration is critical to knowing how and why products are affected. Furthermore, testing with a third-party lab can lead to standardized product coloration and reliable ingredient claims. This White Paper introduces the types of food dyes, the benefits of testing, types of tests, and considerations for choosing a third-party lab.

This method tests for all of the specific illegal adulterants that Amazon requires of its sellers of Sports Nutrition (Body Building) supplements.

Food fraud can result in serious public health consequences and damage to your brand's reputation. Learn about products at risk for food fraud and steps you can take to protect your company.

As popularity of dietary supplements continues to grow, recent challenges in supply chain have shown an emergent growth in adulteration. Find out more on what the problem with adulteration is, and how is it being addressed.

Botanical reference materials play a critical role in herbal product testing. Learn about the importance of botanical reference materials, and how choosing a lab with a large reference material library impacts analytical outputs.

The COVID-19 pandemic created a favorable environment for increased economically motivated adulteration of ingredients and finished products. Adulterated ingredients entering your product can result in serious risk for your company. How can you reduce your company's risk?

Turmeric has faced authenticity issues as instances of economic-adulterations to reduce the cost. We used carbon-14 and HPLC analyses as complementary methods to verify “all-natural” label claims of commercial dietary supplements containing turmeric ingredients.

This presentation discusses further on adulteration risks in botanicals, reviews various quality control analytical strategies and research advances in analytical sciences for dietary supplements and ingredients.

Food fraud, also known as economically motivated adulteration, is widespread worldwide.  Food fraud involves deliberate and intentional substitution, addition, tampering or misrepresentation of food, food ingredients or food packaging, labeling, product information or false or misleading statements made about a product for economic gain.  Food fraud can adversely impact consumer health, product quality, and brand reputation.

Learn more about the similarities and differences between the terms: fraud, defense, authenticity, and adulteration when it comes to foods, ingredients, and supplements.