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Shelf Life Study Testing

Shelf Life Study Testing  Midwest laboratories offers a variety of testing including real time, accelerated, and refrigerated.

Meat Nutrition Labeling

Wait Until March 1 for Nutrition Labeling of Meat and Poultry Wondering what happened to those new nutrition labels in your supermarket’s meat department that were promised to debut this week? You’ll have to wait until March 1 for Nutrition Facts labeling on fresh meats, which have been exempt from the labeling rules first enacted…

Database vs. Chemical Food Testing

When having nutrition information tested be sure to find out if the laboratory that is running your tests is performing database analysis or chemical analysis.  Several laboratories provide a very vague description of how the testing will be performed and , therefore, charge more for database analysis.  This can be misleading because clients think they…