Regulatory12 Sep 2026
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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Methods28 Aug 2026
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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Shelf life04 Aug 2026
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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Export19 Jul 2026
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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Microbiology02 Jul 2026
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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Water14 Jun 2026
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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Quality28 May 2026
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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Nutraceutical09 May 2026
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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Regulatory21 Apr 2026
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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