Meat & Poultry

Hazardous residues and contaminants can enter meat & poultry through the environment, during processing, or during production through preventive or misuse of veterinary drugs in animal husbandry. Analysis of chemical contaminants such as veterinary residues, toxins, pesticides, and other compounds is an essential part of meat & seafood food safety programs. With shifting consumer preferences towards antibiotic free products, meat and poultry companies must verify antibiotic and hormone free marketing claims, and ensure conformity with country of export regulatory requirements. PerkinElmer offers a complete, sensitive and flexible range of state-of-the-art solutions, from ELISA kits to the most advanced triple quadrupole mass spectrometer, to rapid screen, detect and quantify all the possible contaminants in meat and poultry at trace levels.

As meat producers and processors, you deal with a wide array of nutritional, authentication, and compositional challenges. You need to analyze meat quickly to determine whether it meets your exacting specifications, and to segregate products by quality for optimal use; to develop more consistent products by modifying meat blends for fat, moisture, ash, protein, and collagen; and to test for toughness, texture, and more. Our solutions are based on proven technologies, user friendly software, and ready-to-use methods. For your key method needs, from mineral analysis with our Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy and Inductively Coupled Plasma instruments, to amino acid and vitamin analysis with our Chromatography solutions, to proximates with our renowned NIR analyzers, we ensure products that are in quality compliance and meet nutritional requirements. What’s more, our solutions incorporate universal calibrations that cover thousands of sample types – everything from raw ham and frankfurters to salami and meatballs. So whatever type of meat products you produce, our solutions can help you reduce costs while improving quality.

Fluctuations in fat and moisture content can lead to out-of-spec products and unnecessary lean-meat giveaway. Use our NIR analyzers, at-line and in-line, to measure in-production samples and control the process.

With fast, accurate results, adjustments can be made in realtime to better meet target values. They also reduce safety margins and rework while optimizing mixing.