Services - Adulteration Testing of Food

Strasburger & Siegel has a full range of analytical methods and capabilities to verify the adulteration of many Fruit Juices, Honey and Maple products. Let us help you verify your ingredient specification and avoid the potential serious consequences of the inadvertent purchase of adulterated juice. See our Fees list for pricing of Adulteration testing on a sample of products.

Fruit Juices, honey and maple products are subject to adulteration with the addition of unlabeled ingredients such as corn syrup, sugar or fruit acids. These low cost ingredients are used to extend the relatively expensive natural product. Sometimes even other, less expensive juices may be used to achieve the Brix and Acidity of the specifications for the product at a lower ingredient cost. This practice is considered adulteration and mislabeling by the USDA and the FDA.

Adulteration means a food product fails to meet federal or state standards. Adulteration usually means a noncompliance with health or safety standards, as determined in the United States, by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

The portion of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic (FD&C) Act 1938 (as amended through December 31, 2004) that covers the adulteration of juices and other products, states that food is adulterated if :

If any valuable constituent has been in whole or in part omitted or abstracted;

if any substance has been substituted wholly or in part;

if damage or inferiority has been concealed in any manner;

if any substance has been added thereto or mixed or packed therewith so as to increase its bulk or weight, or reduce its quality or strength, or make it appear better or of greater value than it is;

If it is, or it bears or contains, a color additive which is unsafe;

This law is complex and there are exceptions to the above. Strasburger & Siegel can help you determine what you need! Contact Us for assistance today.