As a restaurateur/caterer/hotelier, you must be aware that food quality is one of the most important factors that increase customer loyalty. But how do you know you are providing quality food? You provide quality food when you buy raw materials and ingredients from licensed vendors ensure that your milk and dairy supplies come from licensed […]
Food Safety in the School Canteen
The FSSAI states that the dreams and aspirations of a nation are reflected in its children. Therefore it becomes the duty of all schools to ensure that the children’s eating habits are nurtured in a way that enhances their health. Schools should adopt a food safety programme that keeps children free from health hazards and […]
Food Safety in the Corporate Canteen
Corporate cafeterias and canteens are either run by the corporate or are outsourced to a Food Business Operator (FBO). Since the food is prepared and cooked in bulk, extra caution is required to keep the food safe from contamination because any contamination could affect a large number of corporate employees. It is important for the […]
Food testing laboratories – Keeping you safe and healthy
Food safety has become an important public health issue and food testing laboratories play an important role in keeping you safe from health hazards. In recent years both intentional and unintentional adulteration has become high-tech and state-of-the-art testing laboratories can help to detect these adulterants. Therefore one of the functions of the food testing laboratories […]
Food in your hostel mess: Is it a mess?
It is not uncommon to find hostel inmates complaining or even protesting about the poor quality of food served in the hotel mess. This is because in most hostels food is supplied by private contractors who are selected on the basis of the lowest charges rather than food quality. It is possible the contractors do […]
Advanced Polarimeter installed in Baddi Laboratory
Optical activity is an important parameter to specify the purity of mixtures composed of optically active isomers. Mirror image isomers can exhibit different pharmacological effects and toxicities in addition to their ability to rotate the plane of polarized light either in clockwise or anticlockwise direction. A mixture of isomers in equal proportion does not rotate […]
Microwave Digestion available at our Bangalore & Baddi Laboratories
Sample digestion is a cumbersome time-consuming activity which requires specially designed fume hoods for safety and damage caused by corrosive fumes. Both the laboratories at Baddi(Himachal Pradesh) and Bangalore in Karnataka are now equipped with the latest microwave sample digestion facility- Anton Paar GmBH Model Multiwave GO. The microwave digestion system simplifies the sample digestion […]
Potential Applications of Ion Chromatography
Ion chromatography or Ion exchange chromatography is a branch of High-Performance Liquid Chromatography or HPLC. It has a potential of separating charged molecular species present in the mobile phase stream. The charge bearing molecules are separated from non-ionic species due to their affinity for oppositely charged sites on the ion exchange stationary phase packed inside […]
X-Ray Diffraction installed @ ARBRO
We are proud to announce that we have installed X-ray diffraction (XRD) instrumentation in our laboratory. XRD is a valuable tool for analysis and testing of materials used in pharmaceuticals, food, cosmetics, studies in nanomaterials, blood, forensics, geological grading of minerals, electronics etc. In fact, the scope of application is so vast that it is […]
Top five reasons people never return to a restaurant
Why people never return to the restaurant, let’s find out! When customers repeat a visit to a restaurant it means that they have found your restaurant worth a second visit. According to studies repeat customers help restaurant owners maximize their revenue. They also offer the benefit of the word- of- mouth advertising because if they […]