In the last few years the quality and process control methods have acquired increasingly importance to ensure health and safety in the food and beverage products. In about 15 years CDR has developed a wide range of systems (CDR FoodLab range) able to perform analysis on the most diverse matrices such as milk, oils and fats, eggs, wine, beer, cider and so on. These systems, are developed and customized to have as much easy as possible, indeed they are used in QC laboratories but, most of all, they are used directly at-line by no analytical skilled people in the food and beverage industry.

1. Innovative at-line quality control methods
in Food & Beverage industry
Bellassai Simone
CDR FOODLAB division manager
CDR srl, Florence

2. CDR conducts its business in heterogeneous sectors.
CDR, a “workshop” of ideas and continuous innovation

3. • Milk and Dairy Products
• Egg Products
• Vegetable purees
• Wine
• Beer and Water
• Cider
• Seed Oil
• Palm Oil
• Olive Oil
• Fryng Oil
• Animal and Vegetable Fat
• Nuts / hard-shelled fruits
FOOD DIAGNOSTICS

4. The CDR system
The analyser The reagents
• LEDs wave lengths (ABS range 0 – 6.0)
• Free of maintenance
• Auto-check calibration system
• Multiple or multitasking mode
• Pre-filled cuvettes
• Reagents pre-calibrated
• Ready to use

5. Calibration of the reagents
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y = 59,726(ΔABS) - 0,3532
R² = 0,991
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0.000 0.100 0.200 0.300 0.400 0.500 0.600 0.700
Referencemethod(BU)
Δ Absorbance
Bitterness in beer
Correlation parameters
setted in the analyser

6. • Acidity – FFA (free fatty acid)
• Peroxide value - PV
• p-Anisidine value - AnV
• Iodine value – IV (only on Palm Oil)
• Total Polyphenols (Biophenols) (only on Olive Oil)
•Soaps
APPLICATIONS
Analyses on oils & fats

7. APPLICATIONS
• We can analyse crude or refined oil as is.
• In case of solid fat, melt it before testing is
sufficient

8. APPLICATIONS
Deep Fried products
• Chips or other fried food
Analyses on frying oil
during the process
At-line quality control
Analyses on fried
product
Shelf-life quality control

9. APPLICATIONS
Deep Fried products
Analyses on fried product
Shelf-life quality control
NOT Soxhlet required

10. APPLICATIONS
Fish Oil
• Functional Food / Nutraceutical
Very important test:
AnV - Anisidine Value

11. APPLICATIONS
Customers
Oil producers, processors and users
Bottlers/Packers
Oil mills / seeds
processors
Oil refineries
Food and feed
manufacturers
Nuts / hard shell fruit producers, processors and packers

12. APPLICATIONS
Analyses
on milk and cheese
Milk and Dairy Products
• L-Lactic acid
• Ammonia
• Lactose
• Urea
• Chloride
• Alkaline Phosphatase
• ε-fructosyl-lysine / furosine
• Peroxidase / Sieroproteine
• Hydrogen Peroxide

13. We can analyze milk as is, no pretreatment required.
Low quantity of cheese is needed for the pretreatment before to
analyze the solution.
APPLICATIONS
Milk and Dairy Products

14. APPLICATIONS
In low content or lactose
free products
Detection limit 0.01%
Lait et produits laitiers
SOFTWARE
LEDs with a specific
software to to adjust
the absorbance reading
Reagent
Specific way to
remove the
interference of the
other sugars in the
sample

15. APPLICATIONS
Milk and Dairy Products
Customers
• Dairy companies
Cheese factories
Milk factories
Milk processors
• Breeders
• Veterinaries
• Feed producers
UREA - MUN
• L-Lactic acid
• Ammonia
• Lactose
•Chloride
• Alkaline Phosphatase
• ε-fructosyl-lysine / furosine
• Peroxidase / Sieroproteine
• Hydrogen Peroxide

16. APPLICATIONS
Analyses on liquid and powder eggs
Egg products
• L-Lactic acid
• D-3-hydroxybutyric acid
• Colour of the egg (β-carotene)

17. APPLICATIONS
Egg products
Optimization of enzymatic test
CDR FoodLab simplifies and
speeds up the traditional procedures,
allowing to analyze L-lactic Acid, D-3-
hydroxy-butyric Acid and beta-carotene
(Colour) in rapid times: about 10 minutes
for the sample preparation and few
minutes for the analysis.

18. APPLICATIONS
Egg products
• Egg producers and processors
• Food companies that use egg products as:
bakery, biscuits, cakes etc.
Customers

19. CDR NEW FRONTIERS
Gold and silver nanoparticles
GOLD SILVER
TYPICAL SPECTRAL BEHAVIOR OF SPHERICAL NPs
≈ 400 nm
≈ 530 nm

20. CDR NEW FRONTIERS
Gold and silver nanoparticles
Light
source
Spectrometer
Unmodified
cuvette
Cuvette modified with
polymer
Gold nanoparticles
in situ synthesis
Gold nanoparticles
in situ synthesisA)
B)

21. LSPR sensors
CDR NEW FRONTIERS
Gold and silver nanoparticles

22. CDR srl – Florence – Italy www.cdrfoodlab.com
Thanks for your attention
Bellassai Simone
CDR FOODLAB division manager
CDR srl, Florence