Food Authenticity

To protect your brand, Fera can ensure your compliance with food safety regulations, protecting public health and supporting traceability.

Food Authenticity


Our Authenticity Testing

As a leading provider of analytical testing services to global agri-food industries, please see our services below to protect your brand. Our testing capabilities provide peace of mind for a more safe, supply chain, providing traceability and quality assurance for food and beverage products

Honey Tests

Honey 

We offer extensive honey quality and authenticity analysis capabilities. We are the only laboratory in the UK to be the preferred partner of the UMF® Honey Association as an official testing laboratory for independently verifying the UMF® rating of Manuka honey. 

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Meat and Seafood 

Offering a variety of meat and fish authenticity testing, Fera are able to provide insight into the authenticity of your produce using tests which include, but are not limited to, species identification, geographic origin studies and feeding regime verification to support your due diligence activities.

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Gelatine 

As gelatine is a highly processed product (and a high level of processing disrupts DNA and proteins), it is difficult to determine the species of origin as methods such as DNA analyses and protein analyses by immunoassays are disrupted. Fera has developed a peptide LC-MS/MS technique which can be used to determine the origin of the gelatine, for example whether a food product or ingredient contains ruminant or pork gelatine, to a known detection level. 

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Wines, Beers, Spirits and Fruit Juice 

Strengthening your brand and consumer confidence: Utilising a multidisciplinary approach, Fera can provide an overall snapshot of wine, spirits and fruit juice samples, evaluating their quality against known and lesser-known adulteration tactics. This will support your quality control provisions to support accurate labelling and identify adulterants. For fruit juice, testing is available to substantiate ‘not from concentrate’ claims.

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Egg Services

Egg Authenticity Services

We offer services to support egg labelling claims and due diligence testing. Fera can support your vitamin, selenium, folic acid and organic labelling claims. We also offer services to support lion code claims and farm origin labelling. Click below to read more about Fera's current services for Egg Authenticity. 

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The EU Regulation on Deforestation-free Products 

The European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) aims to combat global deforestation by regulating supply chains for high-risk commodities such as Soy, Cattle, Palm Oil, Coffee, Cocoa, Rubber, and Timber. We can support businesses with geographical origin testing of commodities, custom data development, compliance guidance, and supply chain auditing, ensuring traceability and adherence to EUDR standards.

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Probiotic Testing

Probiotic Testing

Offering a range of probiotics testing, we provide valuable insight into the quality and effectiveness of your probiotic products. These tests help confirm that the probiotics are live, present in adequate amounts, and proven to deliver the intended health benefits to the consumer, as defined by the World Health Organisation.

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