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Short, practical pieces written by the analysts who run the work, on regulation, method choice and the mistakes we see often enough to be worth writing down.

What the revised FSSAI heavy-metal limits mean for spice exporters

Tighter lead and cadmium ceilings do not just change your release specification, they change which lots you can blend, and which you now have to reject at the gate. A practical note on intake testing strategy.

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Why your protein number moves between laboratories

Kjeldahl versus Dumas, the nitrogen conversion factor you inherited from a textbook, and sample homogeneity explain almost every dispute we are asked to arbitrate. One of those three is usually yours to fix.

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Accelerated stability is an estimate, not a promise

How to design a study that will survive a buyer audit, which products should never rely on modelled data, and why the pull schedule matters more than the number of pulls.

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Ethylene oxide: how a fumigant became a rejection reason

The EU detection limit, the 2-chloroethanol conversion, and what to ask your warehouse before your next container is loaded for Rotterdam.

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PCR negative is not the same as culture negative

Rapid screening is the right tool for releasing a clean lot quickly. It is the wrong tool for confirming a detection, and the difference matters when a regulator reads your file.

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Reading an IS 10500 report without getting it wrong

Acceptable limit, permissible limit in the absence of an alternate source, and the three parameters where people routinely declare compliance they do not actually have.

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Measurement uncertainty, explained for non-chemists

Why a result of 9.8 against a limit of 10.0 is not automatically a pass, and how to write a specification that accounts for the uncertainty instead of ignoring it.

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Label claim versus actual: what we see in supplement testing

Patterns from routine independent verification of contract-manufactured supplements, and the two assays most worth running before you accept a delivery.

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Preparing for an FSSAI inspection of your laboratory records

The documents inspectors ask for most often, in the order they usually ask for them, and the gaps we see when clients ask us to pre-audit their files.

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