Food testing driving the surge in laboratory products

An increasing demand for food testing is driving the laboratory products market and laboratory use, with GIA recently forecasting that the global market for testing laboratories is forecast to exceed $75 billion (£47 billion) by 2017.

The comprehensive global report on testing laboratories markets was released by GIA this week, and found that there were a number of factors driving demand for laboratory use and lab products.

Chief factors include globalization, growing consumer demand for safe products, increasing number and size of testing laboratories globally, and the expansion of the market to include new type of laboratories to move in tandem with the evolving customer concerns.

Food testing is one of the most common types of testing in labs, fuelled by the globalisation of food products as well as the evolution of production methods and consumers being increasingly aware of what they eat. The major challenge facing food testing as we move into the future is the requirement for acquiring instruments and methods that can detect new compounds and ingredients as issues surface.

chemical testing, physical testing, and analytical testing, including vibration or acoustics testing, biological testing, electronic and electrical testing are all adding to the surge in demand for lab space.

Posted by Claire Manning