Food Quality Magazine
ISSUE 04 | OCTOBER 2015
Testing in 2013 was USD 9.91 billion. With a CAGR 0f 7.2%, as per
a Markets and Markets report, the
Food Safety Testing Market is projected to reach USD 15.04 billion with a
volume of 1.15 billion tests by 2019
(for more details see Markets and
Markets Food Safety Testing report).
The report studies different types of
contaminants in food, types of food
and the technologies that help in
detecting them thereby determining
the safety of food and the raw material that goes into its production.
Food Diagnostic Technologies help
to detect the presence of adulterants, contaminants, and analyze
nutrient composition of the food
samples. They include a wide range
of hybridization-based systems such
as PCR and microarrays, chromatography-based systems; spectrometry-based systems; biosensors;
immunoassay-based systems; and
testing kits. This market will be worth
10 billions by 2019 (for more details
see Markets and Markets Food diagnostic technologies report).
End-point testing i.e. finished product testing tells us whether a finished product is fit for consumption. That may not always be enough. Several new technologies are
available to track food through its
entire value chain thereby allowing
quick detection of the root cause
of contamination of food. The food
traceability market is projected to
grow at a CAGR of about 9% to reach
$14.30 billion by 2019. (For more details see Markets and Markets
Food Traceability report).
Pirture 1 - The Food Safety Ecosystem
systems like the FDA and voluntary
Food certifications and Global Food
Safety Initiative (GFSI) all lead to
introducing in-built quality into food
right from the first step and therefore are crucial to the Food Industry.
Several quality management systems
such as ISO 22000, Good Agricultural
Practices (GAP), Good Manufacturing
Practices (GMP), Good Hygiene
Practices (GHP), and Hazard Analysis
Critical Control Point (HACCP) and
others , together formulate food
safety, from the farm to fork.
Provided there is correct implementation!
Related Market research reports
from Markets and Markets:
1. Food colors market: http://
www.marketsandmarkets.com/
Market-Reports/food-colors-market-36725323.html
2. Food safety Testing Markets:
http://www.marketsandmarkets.
com/PressReleases/food-safetytesting-market.asp
3. http://www.marketsandmarkets.
com/Market-Reports/food-diagnostics-systems-225194671.html
4. Food certifications market: http://
www.marketsandmarkets.com/
Market-Reports/food-certificationmarket-82063283.html
5. Food traceability markets: http://
www.marketsandmarkets.com/
Market-Reports/food-traceabilitymarket-103288069.html
6. Food coating and processing
technologies: http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/
food-coating-ingredients-market-168532529.html
Merely testing safety of food is not
the answer for providing high quality
safe food. The US’s proactive measures of implementing the Food Safety
Modernization Act , the Food, Drugs,
Cosmetics act in India are focused
on the theme “Prevention is better
than Cure”. The laws and guidelines
they provide are monitored by different agencies like FSA in UK, FSIS
in the US or likewise the FSSAI and
FDA in India. Manufacturing of Food
using current Good Manufacturing
Practices, compliance to mandatory
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