Shelf Life Studies

Our holistic approach to shelf life studies will further your understanding of how your food product will age over time with our real-time, accelerated, and open-package studies.

Confidential results are remitted in a written, final report allowing you to share data with customers securely.

Matrix-specific methods are used to evaluate the deterioration of quality over time to give you a recommended shelf life for your product.

Our labs can offer real-time, accelerated, and open-package services for your product.

Reasons to Conduct Shelf Life Studies

• A new product roll-out
• Evaluating the impact of formulation, packaging or process changes
• Assessing storage or distribution system changes
• Determining the shelf-life of your product

Shelf Life Study Parameters

Study parameters include, but are not limited to:

• Microbiological spoilage
• Lipid oxidation
• Nutrient stability
• Sensory evaluation
• Probiotic stability
• Physical evaluations
• (color, texture, etc.)
• Quality degradation
• Preservative performance

Contact our experts today to learn more.