Analytical Services & Quality Management
Zee’s Analytical Services group provides direction to our internal teams and customers. With more than 50 years of industry experience, our analytical team’s technical support is an integral part of the flavor creation process. Believing in a transparent analytical process, our department works closely with you to assist in any analytical challenges you might have in the development of your product. Our support continues long after your product goes to market. We view you as a customer for life, and are willing to provide technical support, at any point in your product development process.
Analytical Services
Analytical Services at Zee is equipped with modern instrumentation (GC-MS, GC-FID, HPLC) as well as technical expertise in the evaluation of essential oils, flavors, perfume compositions, and ingredient specialties. We implemented new analytical techniques that have been developed and tested in close collaboration with university research institutes and equipment manufacturers.
Quality Management
Product safety and high quality are of the utmost priority in all our development and manufacturing processes. Our extensive quality control-, food safety- and risk management system guarantees compliance with all relevant regulations and customer expectations and ensures raw materials of the highest quality to be used in our final products. Zee therefore comprises a strong and independent quality control and a regulatory affairs department.
Our European Quality Management System is based on the requirements of the ISO 9001 and integrates further systems such as HACCP, FSSC 22000, FAMI-QS (feed safety standards), organic, kosher and halal.
Capabilities & Equipment
- Gas chromatographs/mass spectrometers (GC-MS) with flame Ionization detectors (FID)
- High Pressure Liquid Chromatograph (HPLC) with UV-VIS
Sampling techniques include…
- Static/dynamic headspace
- Direct thermal desorption
- Solid phase microextraction (SPME)
- Stir bar sorbtive extraction (SBSE)
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