Guardian of Food Safety: MSHOT Microscopes for NMPA Food Safety Evaluation Labs
As food safety issues gain increasing public attention, food safety regulation has become a critical part of safeguarding public health. As an important component of national food safety supervision, the Food Safety Evaluation Laboratories of the NMPA are responsible for full-process monitoring from raw materials to finished products.
In this process, the microscope, as one of the fundamental and core instruments, plays an indispensable role. Leveraging high-resolution imaging technology, it provides scientific and accurate data support for food safety evaluation, ensuring that food complies with safety standards throughout production, processing, circulation and other links.
Applications of Microscopes in Food Safety Evaluation
Food Safety Evaluation Laboratories of the NMPA mainly employ microscopes for microbial contamination detection, parasite examination, and illegal additive screening, all of which are critical to ensuring food safety.
Challenges of Microscopic Imaging in Food Safety Testing
In food safety testing, the detection of microbial contamination and parasite eggs mainly relies on brightfield microscopy. Food contains a wide variety of microorganisms with small sizes and variable quantities, which imposes high requirements on the resolution of microscopic imaging.
Parasite eggs are tiny and often mixed with other components in food, requiring microscopes to clearly distinguish subtle structural differences. Especially in meat samples, high contrast and image clarity are essential.
Finally, for illegal additive screening, low-concentration samples typically depend on fluorescence microscopy. This demands microscopes to have excellent fluorescence imaging performance to accurately identify and locate tiny dye particles.
Brightfield Preliminary Screening Solution for Food Microbial Contamination, Parasite Eggs and Illegal Additives
Upright biological microscopes ML31/ML45/ML51-N (oil immersion) + microscope cameras MD60/MDX10.
Suitable for bacterial and microbial colony counting, as well as morphological observation of bacteria, parasites and illegal additives.