Put Your Product to the Test: LIMS Enhances Product Safety Testing

The system serves as a complete tool for information deriving from projects across all sites, enabling laboratory scientists to easily consolidate sample and instrument data. Implementation of the LIMS ensures that validated methods of production and standard operating procedures are being followed whenever possible. The solution has been integrated with the existing ERP system; as soon as the test results are introduced and authorized in the LIMS by the laboratory personnel, the information is available for the processing facilities technicians, laboratory administrators, and other personnel.

Consistency of results is guaranteed with the use of the Thermo Scientific LIMS, because almost all calculations are processed by the system using the same format for different purposes at different plants. Spreadsheets and manual data transfer are thus eliminated. Access to reports generated across more than 50 sites is now possible via the Internet.

Food safety is recognized as one of today’s most important global issues. Food companies need to conduct accurate, continuous testing and must have the data readily available in order to comply with regulations. By offering the flexibility to accommodate various workflows, laboratory types, and user communities across the organization, enterprise-wide LIMS solutions can help food companies achieve fast and reliable results. An enterprise-wide standardization on LIMS can provide immediate benefits in productivity, information sharing, accelerated sample processing, and electronic reporting capture.

Thurston is director of product strategy and process industries at Thermo Fisher Scientific in Philadelphia. Contact him at (866) 463-6522 and [email protected], or visit www.thermo.com/informatics.

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