We have the perfect solutions to support your beverage applications

Milk Resource Library
Your source for application notes specifically for the analysis of milk.

Complete Solutions for Dairy
Thermo Fisher Scientific is a leader in providing scientific solutions to improve productivity and profitibility across the dairy production chain from farm to fridge. From routine monitoring to advanced solutions for food quality, safety and authenticity across the dairy production chain. The broadest and most robust range for environmental and water monitoring, animal health and genetic improvement through to full analytical testing for your complete production process to ensure you exceed customer expectations in the consumer driven market whilst protecting your brand and reputation.

Quality Control
Quality control and quality assurance are essential across the food industry. Both the domestic and export markets require stringent adherence to food safety requirements, whilst consumers are driving additional testing due to ongoing concerns regarding food origin and authenticity. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers the broadest selection of technologies for food testing laboratories, to ensure we can offer a solution to meet your application. Including a comprehensive range of traditional, industry standard test requirements, we offer complete advanced analytical technologies to take your products to the next level. These include the most sensitive antibiotic residues detection solution, along with advanced microbial identification for farm to fork traceability, advanced automated composition analysis and class leading X-ray and metal detection for packaged goods, and much more.

Laboratory
Increasing standards across the food industry has driven adoption of new technologies for food testing. Thermo Fisher Scientific can provide traditional technologies along with all emerging technologies, to keep you up to date with the new stardards. From sample collection to advanced laboratory testing, Thermo Fisher Scientific is a leader in laboratory supplies for the testing of dairy products.

Processing
Maintaining optimal conditions across the dairy process involves maintaining a hygienic environment and efficient waste management. Ensuring your product meets your high quality standards requires use of analytical testing for composition, from pH to fat and protein content we have a complete range of in-process monitoring solutions. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers end to end solutions for the dairy industry.

Waste Management
Increasing regulations and government requirements mandate that the output from both farming and dairy processing operations meet minimum requirements. Thermo Fisher Scientific have tools to monitor the environmental output from odours, to bioburdon and water quality, we have a complete range of solutions to manage your waste treatment and testing requirements.

Applications & Solutions
Your source for application notes specifically for the analysis of juice.

Tools for Nutritional Analysis & Raw Material Composition

Tools for pH & Electrochemistry

Tools for Influx Water Testing

Tools for Microbial Contamination Testing

Tools for Yeast Analysis

Tools for Sugar Analysis

Tools for Stirring and Mixing

Tools for Sterilisation/Cleaning

Sample Management Tools

Safety and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Tools for Monitoring Waste

Tools for Analysing Sugars

Tools for Analysing Turbidity

Tools for Analysing Acids

Tools to Measure Lactic Acid (D + L)

Tools to Measure Nitrogen

Tools to Measure Dissolved Gases

Entry Level Carbohydrate Analysis
Refractometry and polarimetry are sensitive, non-destructive optical techniques for detecting and measuring inorganic and organic compounds in liquid and semi-solid materials. These techniques are used within the dairy industry to determine concentration and purity of carbohydrates and organic composition including; lactose, sucrose, lactoglobuline, lactic acid, esters, colostrum etc. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers a range of benchtop and field deployable refractometers and polarimeters to meet your application.

Advanced Carbohydrate Analysis
Chromatography has become the core technology in advanced qualitative and quantitative carbohydrate analysis. Learn about chromatography is being used to meet the labelling guidelines.

Gallery Discrete Analysers
Our range of automated analysers provide fast, reproducible results that allow laboratories to measure multiple analytes simultaneously, while reducing total analysis and operator time. The Thermo Scientific™ Gallery™ discrete analysers cover a wide range of applications including food and beverage analysis, environmental testing, and industrial quality control. There are over 50 ready-to-use system reagents to further simplify analysis, saving technician time and reducing errors. Examples of water applications include (but not limited to) alkalinity, aluminium, ammonia, bromide, calcium, chloride, fluoride, total hardness, total iron, magnesium, nitrate, phosphate, sulphate, sulphide, zinc and urea.

Material Characterisation & Testing
Our physical and materials testing technologies for destructive or non destructive analysis support consistent food production.

Refractometers & Polarimeters
Refractometry and Polarimetry are sensitive, non-destructive optical techniques for detecting and measuring inorganic and organic compounds in liquid and semi solid materials. These techniques are used within the beverage industry to determine concentration and purity of carbohydrates and organic composition including; lactose, sucrose, lactoglobuline, lactic acid, esters, etc. Thermo Fisher offers a range of benchtop and field deployable Refractometers and Polarimeters to meet your application.

Colour & Chroma Meters
Popular within research and manufacturing environments, Konica Minolta’s high performance, precise colour measurement solutions help organisations formulate, evaluate, and control colour to meet product quality and operational goals more efficiently. Find out more about how to measure the colour of your beverage products with the Thermo Fisher Scientific range of instruments and ensure your product consistency between batches. Thermo Fisher offers a range of benchtop and field deployable colour meters to suit your applications.

Viscometers & Rheometers
Rheological characteristics and viscosity are valuable physical characteristics for beverage products. These characteristics are associated with pour ability, performance in dipping / coating operation, or the ease with which it may be handled, processed, or used an often associated with perceived product quality. The interrelation between rheology and viscosity and other product dimensions often makes the measurement of viscosity the most sensitive or convenient way of detecting changes in density, stability, solids content, and composition. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers a range of benchtop and field deployable Viscometers and Rheometers to meet your application.

Water Activity Meters
Water activity (Aw) is a measure of the available water in a food matrix. Water which is not bound to food components is available for microbial growth, so measuring and controlling the water activity is a reliable method of limiting the growth of pathogenic and spoilage organisms to maximize shelf life. Thermo Fisher offers a range of benchtop water activity meters along with the range of humidity and moisture measurement equipment to meet your quality control requirements.

Flow & Density
With decades of proven performance, our detectors precisely identify product level and density, enabling our customers to maintain uptime and maximize efficiency, productivity and safety in critical process applications. Building on recognised technologies, we offer robust, non-contacting radiometric and contacting vibrational detectors, that provide confident insights in the most challenging environments, whether you’re facing high temperatures, high pressures or damaging chemicals. From the milk shed to final product and advanced processing Thermo Fisher Scientific has a complete range of flow meters and densitometers to measure the collection, processing, and sterilisation we have the right tool for the job.

Auto Titration
Manual titrations are time consuming and can be inaccurate at times due to human error. Not to mention, important data can get easily lost due to improper tracking methods. The Thermo Scientific Orion Star T900 series automated titrators are designed to make performing titrations easier, more reliable and more reproducible than manual titrations. These automated titrators expand the number of ions and compounds that can be measured beyond direct electrode analysis and offer dynamic process controls that adjust the titration to optimise analysis results.

pH and Oxidative Reductive Potential (ORP)
As beverage manufacturers, accurate sample analysis and quality control are essential to your day-to-day functions, ensuring results that meet regulations and product development requirements.

Dissolved Oxygen (DO)
Dissolved oxygen (DO) is associated with accelerated food spoilage. Thermo Scientific Orion dissolved oxygen benchtop and portable meters help you meet regulatory standards, enable quality control protocols are met, achieve your safety goals, and accelerate your path from challenge to solution.

Carbon Dioxide (CO₂)
We offer meters, electrodes, and solutions designed to measure a range of ions, including fluoride, chloride, ammonia, sodium, silver sulphide, bromide, cadmium, calcium, carbon dioxide, cyanide, and more.

Metal Detection
Protect your product and your reputation in today’s competitive marketplace with Thermo Scientific™ Metal Detectors.

X-ray Equipment
When finding contaminants in your packaged food products is critical to protecting your brand, Thermo Scientific™ X-ray Systems offer high-tech, cost-effective, easy-to-use solutions.

Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS): Advanced Allergen Detection
Some food preparation processes results in allergens such as eggs and milk undetectable using these methods. These limitations have led to the development of advanced techniques employing Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) as a cutting edge analytical tool in allergen analysis. LC-MS/MS can perform simultaneous multiple allergens detection, with fewer false negatives, greater sensitivity, specificity, accuracy and reliability than common techniques.

Trace Elemental & Speciation Analysis
Trace elemental screening and speciation analysis of food is receiving global attention. Some elements are an essential part of a healthy diet, but others, such as lead, mercury, arsenic  and cadmium, offer no nutritional benefits to humans and are actually toxic. That's why we've created breakthrough technologies to identify organic and inorganic elements at ppm to sub-ppt levels across the lab with our broad portfolio of instrumentation. We help make it possible for scientists in the food and beverage market to work faster—and with the confidence and flexibility to adapt to changing demands. Learn about applications being employed to detect trace elements.

Pesticide Residues Analysis
Our innovative technologies help laboratories stay ahead of the curve. We provide powerful workflow solutions and expertise for ever-evolving pesticide residues analysis, to assist with regulatory compliance and food safety, food quality, and research and testing labs.

Food Contact Materials & Packaging Migration
A Food Contact Material (FCM) is any material approved for food use that comes in contact with food or drink products during manufacturing, packaging, preparation, and storage. They can be made from a variety of materials including plastics, rubber, paper, and metal. The safety of a FCM must be evaluated, as chemicals can migrate from the materials into the food.

Persistent Organic Pollutants in Food (POPs)
Environmental pollutants in foods and beverages—such as persistent organic pollutants, also known as POPs—are of great interest when it comes to food safety. Dioxins, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are among the most common.

Food Authenticity & Labelling
In today's global economy, a food product or its ingredients may be sourced from a single farm or from producers and manufacturers worldwide. Truth-in-labelling regulations exist to verify the authenticity and origins of these products as they are exported around the globe. However, recurring food contamination scandals show that there is always room for error, if not intentional adulteration or counterfeiting.

Microplastics Analysis
Our use of plastics in everyday items and manufacturing processes has resulted in a deluge of slowly degradable materials entering our environment and our food chain. As plastics breakdown into tiny particles (<5 mm diameter) referred to as microplastics. FTIR and Raman spectroscopy solutions that can help you identify, characterize, and quantify microplastics from a variety of sample sources (bottled water, ocean water, industry waste streams) without being a spectroscopy expert.

Environmental & Hygiene Monitoring
Our Environmental and Hygiene portfolio offers a large selection of Thermo Fisher Scientific products for environmental testing, including Environmental swabs, Contact and Settle plates; as well as a leading solutions in air and ATP surface sampling from global brands such as 3M and Neogen. All are designed to meet regulatory guidelines, monitor your processes, and ensure the accuracy of your in house environmental and hygiene testing.

Traditional Microbiology
Differentiate and confirm microorganisms for food safety and quality testing—in solid or liquid media at genus, species, and serovar levels— with a range of confirmation and identification products that use either biochemical or immunological characteristics.

Microbiological Incubators
Successful incubation is an essential step in your everyday workflows. Thermo Scientific™ microbiological and refrigerated incubators are designed with your samples in mind to produce results you can count on. Trust that your valuable samples are safe within a microbiological incubator that provides reliable results through innovative features, including dual convection technology, automatic temperature alarms, and advanced decontamination.

Microanalysis & Microscopy
A range of microanalysis systems and microscopes to suit a wide variety of scientific, industrial, environmental and quality analysis applications. Ranging from Thermo Scientific's fully integrated microanalysis system, providing the optimal combination of detectors, software and electronics; to the Leica Microsystems range of microanalysis solutions to suit your microanalysis needs in areas such as materials and earth sciences, industry and manufacturing.

qPCR
Detect and quantify food quality indicator organisms, spoilage organisms, and bacterial foodborne pathogens with a broad choice of methods from traditional, selective, and differential agar media to rapid, real-time PCR assays.

Microbial Safety
A Microbiological laboratory is a unique environment that requires special practices and containment facilities in order to properly protect persons working with microorganisms. 

Industrial & Occupational Hygiene
Thermo Fisher Scientific offers personal protective equipment (PPE) and devices offer worker protections from chemical hazards as well as health hazards such as noise, vibration, heat or cold, dust and particulates, toxic gas and vapour, radiation and infectious diseases.

Applications & Solutions
Your source for application notes specifically for the analysis of tea and coffee.

Tools for Nutritional Analysis & Raw Material Composition

Tools for pH & Electrochemistry

Tools for Influx Water Testing

Tools for Microbial Contamination Testing

Tools for Sugar Analysis

Tools for Stirring and Mixing

Tools for Sterilisation/Cleaning

Sample Management Tools

Safety and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Tools for Monitoring Waste

Tools for Analysing Sugars

Tools for Analysing Turbidity

Tools for Analysing Acids

Tools to Measure Lactic Acid (D + L)

Tools to Measure Nitrogen

Tools to Measure Dissolved Gases

Entry Level Carbohydrate Analysis
Refractometry and polarimetry are sensitive, non-destructive optical techniques for detecting and measuring inorganic and organic compounds in liquid and semi-solid materials. These techniques are used within the dairy industry to determine concentration and purity of carbohydrates and organic composition including; lactose, sucrose, lactoglobuline, lactic acid, esters, colostrum etc. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers a range of benchtop and field deployable refractometers and polarimeters to meet your application.

Advanced Carbohydrate Analysis
Chromatography has become the core technology in advanced qualitative and quantitative carbohydrate analysis. Learn about chromatography is being used to meet the labelling guidelines.

Gallery Discrete Analysers
Our range of automated analysers provide fast, reproducible results that allow laboratories to measure multiple analytes simultaneously, while reducing total analysis and operator time. The Thermo Scientific™ Gallery™ discrete analysers cover a wide range of applications including food and beverage analysis, environmental testing, and industrial quality control. There are over 50 ready-to-use system reagents to further simplify analysis, saving technician time and reducing errors. Examples of water applications include (but not limited to) alkalinity, aluminium, ammonia, bromide, calcium, chloride, fluoride, total hardness, total iron, magnesium, nitrate, phosphate, sulphate, sulphide, zinc and urea.

Material Characterisation & Testing
Our physical and materials testing technologies for destructive or non destructive analysis support consistent food production.

Refractometers & Polarimeters
Refractometry and Polarimetry are sensitive, non-destructive optical techniques for detecting and measuring inorganic and organic compounds in liquid and semi solid materials. These techniques are used within the beverage industry to determine concentration and purity of carbohydrates and organic composition including; lactose, sucrose, lactoglobuline, lactic acid, esters, etc. Thermo Fisher offers a range of benchtop and field deployable Refractometers and Polarimeters to meet your application.

Colour & Chroma Meters
Popular within research and manufacturing environments, Konica Minolta’s high performance, precise colour measurement solutions help organisations formulate, evaluate, and control colour to meet product quality and operational goals more efficiently. Find out more about how to measure the colour of your beverage products with the Thermo Fisher Scientific range of instruments and ensure your product consistency between batches. Thermo Fisher offers a range of benchtop and field deployable colour meters to suit your applications.

Viscometers & Rheometers
Rheological characteristics and viscosity are valuable physical characteristics for beverage products. These characteristics are associated with pour ability, performance in dipping / coating operation, or the ease with which it may be handled, processed, or used an often associated with perceived product quality. The interrelation between rheology and viscosity and other product dimensions often makes the measurement of viscosity the most sensitive or convenient way of detecting changes in density, stability, solids content, and composition. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers a range of benchtop and field deployable Viscometers and Rheometers to meet your application.

Water Activity Meters
Water activity (Aw) is a measure of the available water in a food matrix. Water which is not bound to food components is available for microbial growth, so measuring and controlling the water activity is a reliable method of limiting the growth of pathogenic and spoilage organisms to maximize shelf life. Thermo Fisher offers a range of benchtop water activity meters along with the range of humidity and moisture measurement equipment to meet your quality control requirements.

Flow & Density
With decades of proven performance, our detectors precisely identify product level and density, enabling our customers to maintain uptime and maximize efficiency, productivity and safety in critical process applications. Building on recognised technologies, we offer robust, non-contacting radiometric and contacting vibrational detectors, that provide confident insights in the most challenging environments, whether you’re facing high temperatures, high pressures or damaging chemicals. From the milk shed to final product and advanced processing Thermo Fisher Scientific has a complete range of flow meters and densitometers to measure the collection, processing, and sterilisation we have the right tool for the job.

Auto Titration
Manual titrations are time consuming and can be inaccurate at times due to human error. Not to mention, important data can get easily lost due to improper tracking methods. The Thermo Scientific Orion Star T900 series automated titrators are designed to make performing titrations easier, more reliable and more reproducible than manual titrations. These automated titrators expand the number of ions and compounds that can be measured beyond direct electrode analysis and offer dynamic process controls that adjust the titration to optimise analysis results.

pH and Oxidative Reductive Potential (ORP)
As beverage manufacturers, accurate sample analysis and quality control are essential to your day-to-day functions, ensuring results that meet regulations and product development requirements.

Dissolved Oxygen (DO)
Dissolved oxygen (DO) is associated with accelerated food spoilage. Thermo Scientific Orion dissolved oxygen benchtop and portable meters help you meet regulatory standards, enable quality control protocols are met, achieve your safety goals, and accelerate your path from challenge to solution.

Carbon Dioxide (CO₂)
We offer meters, electrodes, and solutions designed to measure a range of ions, including fluoride, chloride, ammonia, sodium, silver sulphide, bromide, cadmium, calcium, carbon dioxide, cyanide, and more.

Metal Detection
Protect your product and your reputation in today’s competitive marketplace with Thermo Scientific™ Metal Detectors.

X-ray Equipment
When finding contaminants in your packaged food products is critical to protecting your brand, Thermo Scientific™ X-ray Systems offer high-tech, cost-effective, easy-to-use solutions.

Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS): Advanced Allergen Detection
Some food preparation processes results in allergens such as eggs and milk undetectable using these methods. These limitations have led to the development of advanced techniques employing Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) as a cutting edge analytical tool in allergen analysis. LC-MS/MS can perform simultaneous multiple allergens detection, with fewer false negatives, greater sensitivity, specificity, accuracy and reliability than common techniques.

Trace Elemental & Speciation Analysis
Trace elemental screening and speciation analysis of food is receiving global attention. Some elements are an essential part of a healthy diet, but others, such as lead, mercury, arsenic  and cadmium, offer no nutritional benefits to humans and are actually toxic. That's why we've created breakthrough technologies to identify organic and inorganic elements at ppm to sub-ppt levels across the lab with our broad portfolio of instrumentation. We help make it possible for scientists in the food and beverage market to work faster—and with the confidence and flexibility to adapt to changing demands. Learn about applications being employed to detect trace elements.

Pesticide Residues Analysis
Our innovative technologies help laboratories stay ahead of the curve. We provide powerful workflow solutions and expertise for ever-evolving pesticide residues analysis, to assist with regulatory compliance and food safety, food quality, and research and testing labs.

Food Contact Materials & Packaging Migration
A Food Contact Material (FCM) is any material approved for food use that comes in contact with food or drink products during manufacturing, packaging, preparation, and storage. They can be made from a variety of materials including plastics, rubber, paper, and metal. The safety of a FCM must be evaluated, as chemicals can migrate from the materials into the food.

Persistent Organic Pollutants in Food (POPs)
Environmental pollutants in foods and beverages—such as persistent organic pollutants, also known as POPs—are of great interest when it comes to food safety. Dioxins, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are among the most common.

Food Authenticity & Labelling
In today's global economy, a food product or its ingredients may be sourced from a single farm or from producers and manufacturers worldwide. Truth-in-labelling regulations exist to verify the authenticity and origins of these products as they are exported around the globe. However, recurring food contamination scandals show that there is always room for error, if not intentional adulteration or counterfeiting.

Microplastics Analysis
Our use of plastics in everyday items and manufacturing processes has resulted in a deluge of slowly degradable materials entering our environment and our food chain. As plastics breakdown into tiny particles (<5 mm diameter) referred to as microplastics. FTIR and Raman spectroscopy solutions that can help you identify, characterize, and quantify microplastics from a variety of sample sources (bottled water, ocean water, industry waste streams) without being a spectroscopy expert.

Environmental & Hygiene Monitoring
Our Environmental and Hygiene portfolio offers a large selection of Thermo Fisher Scientific products for environmental testing, including Environmental swabs, Contact and Settle plates; as well as a leading solutions in air and ATP surface sampling from global brands such as 3M and Neogen. All are designed to meet regulatory guidelines, monitor your processes, and ensure the accuracy of your in house environmental and hygiene testing.

Traditional Microbiology
Differentiate and confirm microorganisms for food safety and quality testing—in solid or liquid media at genus, species, and serovar levels— with a range of confirmation and identification products that use either biochemical or immunological characteristics.

Microbiological Incubators
Successful incubation is an essential step in your everyday workflows. Thermo Scientific™ microbiological and refrigerated incubators are designed with your samples in mind to produce results you can count on. Trust that your valuable samples are safe within a microbiological incubator that provides reliable results through innovative features, including dual convection technology, automatic temperature alarms, and advanced decontamination.

Microanalysis & Microscopy
A range of microanalysis systems and microscopes to suit a wide variety of scientific, industrial, environmental and quality analysis applications. Ranging from Thermo Scientific's fully integrated microanalysis system, providing the optimal combination of detectors, software and electronics; to the Leica Microsystems range of microanalysis solutions to suit your microanalysis needs in areas such as materials and earth sciences, industry and manufacturing.

qPCR
Detect and quantify food quality indicator organisms, spoilage organisms, and bacterial foodborne pathogens with a broad choice of methods from traditional, selective, and differential agar media to rapid, real-time PCR assays.

Microbial Safety
A Microbiological laboratory is a unique environment that requires special practices and containment facilities in order to properly protect persons working with microorganisms. 

Industrial & Occupational Hygiene
Thermo Fisher Scientific offers personal protective equipment (PPE) and devices offer worker protections from chemical hazards as well as health hazards such as noise, vibration, heat or cold, dust and particulates, toxic gas and vapour, radiation and infectious diseases.

Functional Drinks Resource Library
Your source for application notes specifically for the analysis of functional drinks.

Soft Drink (Soda) Resource Library
Your source for application notes specifically for the analysis of soft drinks.

Tools for Nutritional Analysis & Raw Material Composition

Tools for pH & Electrochemistry

Tools for Influx Water Testing

Tools for Microbial Contamination Testing

Tools for Sugar Analysis

Tools for Stirring and Mixing

Tools for Sterilisation/Cleaning

Sample Management Tools

Safety and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Tools for Monitoring Waste

Tools for Analysing Sugars

Tools for Analysing Turbidity

Tools for Analysing Acids

Tools to Measure Lactic Acid (D + L)

Tools to Measure Nitrogen

Tools to Measure Dissolved Gases

Entry Level Carbohydrate Analysis
Refractometry and polarimetry are sensitive, non-destructive optical techniques for detecting and measuring inorganic and organic compounds in liquid and semi-solid materials. These techniques are used within the dairy industry to determine concentration and purity of carbohydrates and organic composition including; lactose, sucrose, lactoglobuline, lactic acid, esters, colostrum etc. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers a range of benchtop and field deployable refractometers and polarimeters to meet your application.

Advanced Carbohydrate Analysis
Chromatography has become the core technology in advanced qualitative and quantitative carbohydrate analysis. Learn about chromatography is being used to meet the labelling guidelines.

Gallery Discrete Analysers
Our range of automated analysers provide fast, reproducible results that allow laboratories to measure multiple analytes simultaneously, while reducing total analysis and operator time. The Thermo Scientific™ Gallery™ discrete analysers cover a wide range of applications including food and beverage analysis, environmental testing, and industrial quality control. There are over 50 ready-to-use system reagents to further simplify analysis, saving technician time and reducing errors. Examples of water applications include (but not limited to) alkalinity, aluminium, ammonia, bromide, calcium, chloride, fluoride, total hardness, total iron, magnesium, nitrate, phosphate, sulphate, sulphide, zinc and urea.

Material Characterisation & Testing
Our physical and materials testing technologies for destructive or non destructive analysis support consistent food production.

Refractometers & Polarimeters
Refractometry and Polarimetry are sensitive, non-destructive optical techniques for detecting and measuring inorganic and organic compounds in liquid and semi solid materials. These techniques are used within the beverage industry to determine concentration and purity of carbohydrates and organic composition including; lactose, sucrose, lactoglobuline, lactic acid, esters, etc. Thermo Fisher offers a range of benchtop and field deployable Refractometers and Polarimeters to meet your application.

Colour & Chroma Meters
Popular within research and manufacturing environments, Konica Minolta’s high performance, precise colour measurement solutions help organisations formulate, evaluate, and control colour to meet product quality and operational goals more efficiently. Find out more about how to measure the colour of your beverage products with the Thermo Fisher Scientific range of instruments and ensure your product consistency between batches. Thermo Fisher offers a range of benchtop and field deployable colour meters to suit your applications.

Viscometers & Rheometers
Rheological characteristics and viscosity are valuable physical characteristics for beverage products. These characteristics are associated with pour ability, performance in dipping / coating operation, or the ease with which it may be handled, processed, or used an often associated with perceived product quality. The interrelation between rheology and viscosity and other product dimensions often makes the measurement of viscosity the most sensitive or convenient way of detecting changes in density, stability, solids content, and composition. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers a range of benchtop and field deployable Viscometers and Rheometers to meet your application.

Water Activity Meters
Water activity (Aw) is a measure of the available water in a food matrix. Water which is not bound to food components is available for microbial growth, so measuring and controlling the water activity is a reliable method of limiting the growth of pathogenic and spoilage organisms to maximize shelf life. Thermo Fisher offers a range of benchtop water activity meters along with the range of humidity and moisture measurement equipment to meet your quality control requirements.

Flow & Density
With decades of proven performance, our detectors precisely identify product level and density, enabling our customers to maintain uptime and maximize efficiency, productivity and safety in critical process applications. Building on recognised technologies, we offer robust, non-contacting radiometric and contacting vibrational detectors, that provide confident insights in the most challenging environments, whether you’re facing high temperatures, high pressures or damaging chemicals. From the milk shed to final product and advanced processing Thermo Fisher Scientific has a complete range of flow meters and densitometers to measure the collection, processing, and sterilisation we have the right tool for the job.

Auto Titration
Manual titrations are time consuming and can be inaccurate at times due to human error. Not to mention, important data can get easily lost due to improper tracking methods. The Thermo Scientific Orion Star T900 series automated titrators are designed to make performing titrations easier, more reliable and more reproducible than manual titrations. These automated titrators expand the number of ions and compounds that can be measured beyond direct electrode analysis and offer dynamic process controls that adjust the titration to optimise analysis results.

pH and Oxidative Reductive Potential (ORP)
As beverage manufacturers, accurate sample analysis and quality control are essential to your day-to-day functions, ensuring results that meet regulations and product development requirements.

Dissolved Oxygen (DO)
Dissolved oxygen (DO) is associated with accelerated food spoilage. Thermo Scientific Orion dissolved oxygen benchtop and portable meters help you meet regulatory standards, enable quality control protocols are met, achieve your safety goals, and accelerate your path from challenge to solution.

Carbon Dioxide (CO₂)
We offer meters, electrodes, and solutions designed to measure a range of ions, including fluoride, chloride, ammonia, sodium, silver sulphide, bromide, cadmium, calcium, carbon dioxide, cyanide, and more.

Metal Detection
Protect your product and your reputation in today’s competitive marketplace with Thermo Scientific™ Metal Detectors.

X-ray Equipment
When finding contaminants in your packaged food products is critical to protecting your brand, Thermo Scientific™ X-ray Systems offer high-tech, cost-effective, easy-to-use solutions.

Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS): Advanced Allergen Detection
Some food preparation processes results in allergens such as eggs and milk undetectable using these methods. These limitations have led to the development of advanced techniques employing Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) as a cutting edge analytical tool in allergen analysis. LC-MS/MS can perform simultaneous multiple allergens detection, with fewer false negatives, greater sensitivity, specificity, accuracy and reliability than common techniques.

Trace Elemental & Speciation Analysis
Trace elemental screening and speciation analysis of food is receiving global attention. Some elements are an essential part of a healthy diet, but others, such as lead, mercury, arsenic  and cadmium, offer no nutritional benefits to humans and are actually toxic. That's why we've created breakthrough technologies to identify organic and inorganic elements at ppm to sub-ppt levels across the lab with our broad portfolio of instrumentation. We help make it possible for scientists in the food and beverage market to work faster—and with the confidence and flexibility to adapt to changing demands. Learn about applications being employed to detect trace elements.

Pesticide Residues Analysis
Our innovative technologies help laboratories stay ahead of the curve. We provide powerful workflow solutions and expertise for ever-evolving pesticide residues analysis, to assist with regulatory compliance and food safety, food quality, and research and testing labs.

Food Contact Materials & Packaging Migration
A Food Contact Material (FCM) is any material approved for food use that comes in contact with food or drink products during manufacturing, packaging, preparation, and storage. They can be made from a variety of materials including plastics, rubber, paper, and metal. The safety of a FCM must be evaluated, as chemicals can migrate from the materials into the food.

Persistent Organic Pollutants in Food (POPs)
Environmental pollutants in foods and beverages—such as persistent organic pollutants, also known as POPs—are of great interest when it comes to food safety. Dioxins, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are among the most common.

Food Authenticity & Labelling
In today's global economy, a food product or its ingredients may be sourced from a single farm or from producers and manufacturers worldwide. Truth-in-labelling regulations exist to verify the authenticity and origins of these products as they are exported around the globe. However, recurring food contamination scandals show that there is always room for error, if not intentional adulteration or counterfeiting.

Microplastics Analysis
Our use of plastics in everyday items and manufacturing processes has resulted in a deluge of slowly degradable materials entering our environment and our food chain. As plastics breakdown into tiny particles (<5 mm diameter) referred to as microplastics. FTIR and Raman spectroscopy solutions that can help you identify, characterize, and quantify microplastics from a variety of sample sources (bottled water, ocean water, industry waste streams) without being a spectroscopy expert.

Environmental & Hygiene Monitoring
Our Environmental and Hygiene portfolio offers a large selection of Thermo Fisher Scientific products for environmental testing, including Environmental swabs, Contact and Settle plates; as well as a leading solutions in air and ATP surface sampling from global brands such as 3M and Neogen. All are designed to meet regulatory guidelines, monitor your processes, and ensure the accuracy of your in house environmental and hygiene testing.

Traditional Microbiology
Differentiate and confirm microorganisms for food safety and quality testing—in solid or liquid media at genus, species, and serovar levels— with a range of confirmation and identification products that use either biochemical or immunological characteristics.

Microbiological Incubators
Successful incubation is an essential step in your everyday workflows. Thermo Scientific™ microbiological and refrigerated incubators are designed with your samples in mind to produce results you can count on. Trust that your valuable samples are safe within a microbiological incubator that provides reliable results through innovative features, including dual convection technology, automatic temperature alarms, and advanced decontamination.

Microanalysis & Microscopy
A range of microanalysis systems and microscopes to suit a wide variety of scientific, industrial, environmental and quality analysis applications. Ranging from Thermo Scientific's fully integrated microanalysis system, providing the optimal combination of detectors, software and electronics; to the Leica Microsystems range of microanalysis solutions to suit your microanalysis needs in areas such as materials and earth sciences, industry and manufacturing.

qPCR
Detect and quantify food quality indicator organisms, spoilage organisms, and bacterial foodborne pathogens with a broad choice of methods from traditional, selective, and differential agar media to rapid, real-time PCR assays.

Microbial Safety
A Microbiological laboratory is a unique environment that requires special practices and containment facilities in order to properly protect persons working with microorganisms. 

Industrial & Occupational Hygiene
Thermo Fisher Scientific offers personal protective equipment (PPE) and devices offer worker protections from chemical hazards as well as health hazards such as noise, vibration, heat or cold, dust and particulates, toxic gas and vapour, radiation and infectious diseases.

Beer Resource Library
Your source for application notes specifically for the analysis of beer.

Tools for Nutritional Analysis & Raw Material Composition

Tools for pH & Electrochemistry

Tools for Influx Water Testing

Tools for Microbial Contamination Testing

Tools for Analysis of Starch

Tools for Yeast Analysis

Tools for Sugar Analysis

Tools for Stirring and Mixing

Tools for Sterilisation/Cleaning

Sample Management Tools

pH & ORP

Tools for Analysing Fermentable Sugars

Tools for Analysing Turbidity

Tools for Analysing Acetic Acid

Tools for Measuring Total Sulphur Dioxide

Tools to Measure Lactic Acid (D + L)

Tools to Measure Dissolved Gases

Tools to Measure Free Amino Nitrogen by OPA (FAN), Polyphenols & Vicinal Diketons (VDKs) in Beer