Where Food Comes From, a provider of verification and Internet solutions for the agricultural and food industry, has signed a partnership with Colorado State University's Center for Meat Safety & Quality (CMSQ) for their newly acquired agricultural residue test system.
Randox Evidence Investigator is a testing system which allows rapid screening for the presence of a wide array of residues in mediums such as food products, feedstuffs and urine.
Under terms of the partnership agreement, Where Food Comes From will exclusively receive preferential pricing for test services, which may then be passed on to the company's customers.
Where Food Comes From chairman and CEO John Saunders said that need to rapidly and cost-effectively screen feeds, livestock, produce, meats and other raw materials and ingredients to assure compliance with specific program requirements has been evolving over the last few years.
"For many of our domestic consumers and international export partners, process verification provides the right kind of production platform to meet specific program requirements, but they also want to see test results indicating products do not contain specific elements."
"With this partnership, we are now able to package our industry leading verification services with cutting edge residue testing at favorable rates -- saving our customers time and money while providing them with improved ability to meet an ever-increasing number of production standards," Saunders added.
Where Food Comes From noted that the partnership is expected to substantially increase marketing options for agricultural producers while simultaneously supporting the global and domestic values of products produced in the US.
This mutually-beneficial collaboration will enable CMSQ to establish an initial and consistent customer for use of the Randox Evidence Investigator residue screening. It will also allow Where Food Comes From to provide accurate, precise verification screening services in a much shorter period of time and at a much reduced cost compared to other potential testing options.
Testing is expected to be available as early as July 1, 2013.
