Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for Food and Beverage - Food and Beverage
Analytical testing of food and beverages is important to ensure food safety, prevent food fraud, and assure the quality of food products. Food testing laboratories perform several tests on food, supplements, beverages, produce, packaged food, feed, and more. These include tests for pesticide residues, herbicides, pathogens, routine organisms, mycotoxins, allergens, food contaminants, antibiotics residues and veterinary drugs in animal origin food. Whether your laboratory is an in-house testing laboratory or a third-party contract laboratory, accurate and reliable reporting of test results is important to ensure consumer safety.
Some of the major challenges faced by food and beverage testing laboratories:
- Following regulatory guidelines, such as ISO/IEC 17025:2017, FSMA, HACCP, and state and local regulations.
- Managing QA/QC processes and recording associated data.
- Accurate flagging of out-of-specification results.
- Ensuring complete traceability from raw materials to finished products.
- Automating workflows to minimize turnaround time and maximize efficiency.
The food and beverage industry is highly regulated. CloudLIMS is pre-configured to support custom workflows of both third-party contract laboratories as well as in-house testing facilities, making it a highly flexible LIMS. CloudLIMS helps manage a myriad of tests, including microbiological tests, pesticides, herbicides, allergens, performed on a variety of food matrices, including raw materials and ready to eat products. CloudLIMS can be used by laboratories of any size, right from small contract laboratories with a single user to large laboratories having multiple concurrent users at disparate geographical locations. CloudLIMS allows multiple sites to consolidate data, thereby helping laboratories to follow HACCP and FSMA guidelines.
CloudLIMS can be accessed anytime, anywhere, is easy to deploy, and enables food and beverage laboratories to quickly automate workflows without the need to invest in IT infrastructure or personnel.
- Meet regulatory guidelines and standards such as ISO/IEC 17025:2017, FSMA/FDA, HACCP, GLP, 21 CFR Part 11, and state and local regulations.
- Ensure complete traceability of samples back to original raw materials and finished products.
- Manage Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC) processes seamlessly to generate valid, accurate, and reliable accurate test results.
- Configurable forms to manage samples, tests and their results, lab inventory, track service requests, and manage package and shipment of samples.
- Maintain a read-only audit trail to track all laboratory activities along with a date and time stamp.