Food Safety & Compliance

AssayCore Food

AssayCore Food is designed for food safety laboratories operating under ISO 17025, HACCP, FSSC 22000, and EU food law. The platform covers microbiological and chemical testing of raw materials, finished products, and environmental swabs. Integrated HACCP module with CCP monitoring, supplier audit management, allergen risk tracking (EU 14 + Big 9), and automated CoA generation make it the most complete food LIMS on the market.

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Compliance & Standards

ISO/IEC 17025:2017ISO 22000HACCP / CCP (Codex CXC 1-1969 Rev. 2020)FSSC 22000 v6BRCGS Food Safety v9IFS Food v8EU 178/2002 (General Food Law)EU 1169/2011 (labelling)EU 396/2005 (MRL pesticides)FDA FSMA (Food Safety Modernization Act)FSMA Rule 204 (CTE/KDE traceability)USDA / FSISCodex AlimentariusAOAC OMA 2025.01GDPR

Platform Modules

Complete feature set covering every stage of your laboratory workflow.

Sample Management

Sample types: raw materials, finished products, environmental swabs, water
Sample registration with QR/barcode generation
Chain of custody tracking
Temperature and storage condition logging
Batch and lot traceability

Test Management

Microbiological tests (TVC, E. coli, Salmonella, Listeria, Campylobacter)
Chemical tests (heavy metals, pesticide residues, mycotoxins)
Nutritional analysis integration
Method management (AOAC, ISO, EN)
Instrument result import

HACCP & Compliance

CCP identification and monitoring log
PRP and OPRP management
Deviation records with corrective actions
FSSC 22000 and BRC audit checklists
EU 1169/2011 compliance tracking

Allergen Management

EU 14 allergen tracking (Annex II EU 1169/2011)
Big 9 USA allergen detection flags
Cross-contamination risk assessment
Allergen-free claim validation
Label compliance review

Supplier Management

Supplier registration and audit management
ISO 22000, FSSC, BRC, IFS ratings
Certificate tracking (validity, renewal alerts)
CoA upload and validation per delivery
Supplier performance scoring

Reporting

Certificate of Analysis (CoA) PDF generation
Shelf-life study reports (Arrhenius, Q10, ASLT)
Trend analysis charts per analyte
Nutri-Score calculation and display
FSMA and EU regulation compliance reports

Pain Points We Solve

Concrete laboratory pain — quantified — and how AssayCore Food addresses each.

FSMA Rule 204 traceability is enforced but most LIMS lack CTE/KDE schema

Compliance deadline 2026-01-20; 60% of mid-size labs not ready

Native CTE/KDE event log keyed to lot+location with one-click 24-hour FDA export

Allergen cross-contact reviews rely on manual ingredient parsing

30-90 min/SKU label-review time

spaCy NER auto-extracts EU 14 + Big 9 allergens from free-text ingredient lists in <1 s

Method LOD/LOQ recalculation is paper-based at most accredited labs

2-4 hr per analyte per lot of standards

Built-in AOAC LOD/LOQ calculator with audit-logged validation packets and CSV export

Codex MRL pesticide updates lag enforcement deadlines

Up to 6 months gap on legacy LIMS

Codex Pesticides DB synced quarterly; auto-flag results crossing MRL with regulatory note

Shelf-life studies tracked in Excel get lost between QA cycles

12-20 hr/study reconstruction effort

Arrhenius / Q10 / ASLT engine with versioned study artifacts and PDF report

CoA generation is templated per customer with manual copy-paste

5-10 min per CoA, 50-200 CoA/day at mid-size labs

Customer-tagged CoA templates with auto-fill from results; PDF + signed XML in <3 s

ML Models in Production

Bundled CPU-only inference. Open datasets, transparent metrics, lab-tunable thresholds.

Model	Task	Dataset	Metric	Latency	Status
food.nutriscore_predictor	Predict EU Nutri-Score grade A-E from nutrient panel	OpenFoodFacts (HF: openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts, 100K, ODbL)	Accuracy 92.1%	10 ms (CPU)	Production
food.allergen_ner	Extract EU 14 + Big 9 allergens from ingredient text	OpenFoodFacts allergen patterns (~5K rules)	F1 0.95	20 ms (CPU)	Production
food.haccp_classifier	Classify hazard descriptions into HACCP categories	Curated FoodSafety classifications (HF: assaycore/food-haccp, 2.6K)	F1 0.88	30 ms (CPU)	Production
food.product_lookup	Lookup full nutritional profile by EAN-13 barcode	OpenFoodFacts 4.3M products	P95 lookup 6 ms	6 ms (CPU)	Production
food.additive_risk	Score risk of unusual E-number combinations	OpenFoodFacts additives + EU Reg 1333/2008	Anomaly AUC 0.86	18 ms (CPU)	Production
food.nutritional_anomaly	Flag mislabeled or anomalous nutrient panels	USDA FDC (HF: usda/fdc, 445K, public domain)	F1 0.84	22 ms (CPU)	Production
food.ingredient_ner	Parse ingredient list strings into structured tokens	Internal regex + OpenFoodFacts tokens	F1 0.91	12 ms (CPU)	Production

Formulas & Calculations

Calculations that actually run in AssayCore Food — every formula links to its source standard.

AOAC method LOD

LOD = 3.3 × σ_blank / S

AOAC OMA Appendix F; ICH Q2(R1)

AOAC method LOQ

LOQ = 10 × σ_blank / S

AOAC OMA Appendix F

Recovery (%)

Recovery = (C_observed − C_blank) / C_added × 100

AOAC OMA / EU 333/2007

Codex MRL compliance check

C_residue ≤ MRL_codex (per pesticide × commodity)

Codex Alimentarius CXL 2024

Shelf-life Arrhenius prediction

k₂ / k₁ = exp(Ea / R × (1/T₁ − 1/T₂))

AOAC; ASTM F1980

Q10 temperature factor

Q10 = (k_(T+10) / k_T)

Codex CAC/GL 76-2015

TVC enumeration (ISO 4833)

CFU/g = (Σ colonies) / (n × V × dilution)

ISO 4833-1:2013

Why AssayCore Food vs Competitors

Honest side-by-side. Where competitors lead we say so; where we lead, we show how.

Competitor	Their offer	AssayCore Food
LIMS-Forward (Sample6)	Strong on environmental monitoring; weak FSMA-204 schema, no AOAC LOD/LOQ wizard	Native CTE/KDE FSMA-204 export + AOAC OMA LOD/LOQ calculator out-of-box
Bika / Senaite LIMS	Open-source but Plone stack, slow UI, manual allergen parsing	React + Kotlin stack, allergen NER auto-extracts in <1 s, full SaaS option
Thermo SampleManager	$200-500K, 12-month rollout, customer-template CoA via consultants	$24.9-39.9K starter, 21-day rollout, customer-tagged CoA templates self-service
Lockbox LIMS	Cannabis-focused, limited Codex MRL coverage	Codex Pesticides DB synced quarterly + 154-entry E-number reference
STARLIMS Food	Comprehensive but GMP-heavy, weak Big 9 / EU 14 allergen automation	Native EU 14 + Big 9 allergen flags with EU 1169/2011 label compliance review

Who Uses AssayCore Food?

Food manufacturing quality labs (dairy, meat, bakery, beverages)
Third-party food testing laboratories
Regulatory compliance labs under ISO 17025
Retail chain quality assurance labs

Integrations

KafkaMinIOKeycloak SSOFoodLogiQATP biolum devicesCoA PDF export

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