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We want to thank all our lab partners for a successful 2024 and look forward to enabling an even better 2025! With expansions to our scope, solutions and laboratory footprint, 2024 was an amazing year for us here at Beaconpoint Labs. Happy New Year to All!

🔍 Prioritizing Food Safety: The Role of Third-Party Testing Labs 🥗 In today's global marketplace, food safety has never been more crucial. 🌍✨ Third-party testing labs are essential guardians against foodborne illnesses, ensuring that what reaches our tables is not just delicious but safe! 🦠 Why Third-Party Testing? 1. Impartiality: These labs provide unbiased results, building trust with consumers and businesses alike. 2. Expertise: Equipped with advanced technology and skilled professionals, they effectively detect harmful microbes such as Listeria monocytogenes and Shiga Toxin Escherichia coli. 3. Compliance: Stay ahead of regulatory demands—ensuring your products meet regulatory requirements is key to maintaining your reputation. 4. Avoid Cross contamination: Best practice is to not perform any pathogen testing within your own facility to guard against potential cross contamination with the processing floor. By partnering with Beaconpoint Labs, we protect not only our customers but also our industry. Let's strengthen our commitment to safety and quality! To learn more about how Beaconpoint Labs can help support your third-party testing, click the link below and a dedicated team member will be in touch shortly. #BeaconpointLabs #Foodsafety #microbiology #salmonella #listeria #ecoli #foodrecalls #thistimeitspersonal #fearlesstransparency

Beaconpoint Labs wants to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! We want to give a special shoutout to all our wonderful partners we work with allowing us to do what we love; we are grateful for all of you. #HappyThanksgiving #BeaconpointLabs #grateful

We are proud to help our neighbors throughout the state and bring resources together! Working with 18 Chestnuts and NC Food Innovation Lab was a great experience and we were happy to help keep North Carolina companies functional after Hurricane Helene. Shop Local- if you are in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, or Virginia and looking for a food and beverage testing partner for nutritional, microbiology, shelf-life testing, or contaminant testing please contact us today! https://lnkd.in/e5-39sKk #beaconpointlabs #foodtesting #nutritionaltesting #microbiology #NorthCarolina #ISO17025

Unlocking the Power of Resveratrol: Sources, Benefits, and the Importance of Third-Party Testing! Resveratrol is more than just a buzzword—this natural compound has taken the health and wellness world by storm, praised for its remarkable benefits. But where can you find it, and how can we ensure the quality of resveratrol supplements? Let’s dive in! 🔍 🌟 Sources of Resveratrol: 1. Red Wine: One of the most well-known sources, red wine contains resveratrol, particularly from the skins of red grapes. 2. Grapes: Beyond wine, fresh grapes are a delicious and healthy option. 3. Berries: Blueberries, cranberries, and mulberries are all rich in resveratrol. 4. Peanuts: These legumes contain varying amounts of resveratrol, offering a tasty snack. 5. Dark Chocolate: Indulge wisely! Quality dark chocolate is another source of this powerful antioxidant. ✨ Key Benefits of Resveratrol: 1. Antioxidant Properties: Resveratrol helps combat oxidative stress by neutralizing free radicals, supporting overall cellular integrity. 2. Heart Health: Research suggests it may promote cardiovascular health by improving endothelial function and reducing inflammation. 3. Anti-Aging Effects: With its potential to mimic the effects of caloric restriction, resveratrol may promote longevity and healthier aging. 4. Neuroprotective Effects: Studies indicate that resveratrol may protect brain cells, potentially reducing the risk of neurodegenerative diseases. 5. Immune Support: Resveratrol may enhance the body’s defenses, promoting a stronger immune response. 🔍 The Role of Third-Party Testing: To fully harness the benefits of resveratrol, it’s critical for brands to invest in third-party testing: - Quality Assurance: Testing ensures products are free from contaminants and meet potency claims, delivering exactly what consumers expect. - Label Integrity: Third-party validation verifies that what’s on the label matches the content in the bottle. - Consumer Confidence: #FearlessTransparency in testing, making it easier for consumers to choose high-quality products. In a market bursting with options, prioritizing quality and transparency is essential for success! Working with Beaconpoint Labs ensures an accurate and precise HPLC method supporting both the food and supplement industry! To learn more about how Beaconpoint Labs can help support you and your testing, click the link below and someone will be in touch shortly. https://lnkd.in/e5-39sKk #Resveratrol #BeaconpointLabs #SupplementTesting #FoodTesting #ThirdPartyTesting #Nutrition #QualityAssurance #FearlessTransparency

🌎 Elevating Food Safety: The Importance of Environmental Monitoring Testing In the quest for food safety, one of the essential elements in a food safety system is the often-unsung workhorse, Environmental Monitoring Testing! This proactive approach is crucial for identifying potential contamination risks before they escalate. 🦠 🔍 What is Environmental Monitoring Testing? Simply put, it’s about evaluating the surfaces, equipment, niches and air within food production facilities for pathogens and allergens. A robust Environmental Monitoring Program (EMP) is an essential tool, especially in ready to eat food manufacturing. 🔑 Key Benefits: 1. Early Detection: Identifying pathogens like Listeria or Salmonella before they find their way into products keeps consumers safe! 2. Allergens: measuring sanitation effectiveness is crucial to protecting those with food allergies and ensuring product claims such as “nut free” are verified. 3. Continuous Improvement: Data gathered leads to better sanitation practices and compliance with industry regulations. 4. Peace of Mind: Brands that prioritize environmental monitoring are better positioned to build trust with consumers. Let's commit to a safer food landscape, where monitoring isn't just a checklist, but challenge to dig deep every day! What environmental testing strategies have you implemented in your facility? To learn more about how Beaconpoint Labs can support your EMP efforts, click the link below and a team member will be in touch shortly. #FoodSafety #EnvironmentalMonitoring #QualityAssurance #FoodProduction #BeaconpointLabs #salmonella #listeria #thistimeitspersonal #fearlesstransparency

🚚 New Service Alert: Courier Pick-Up for Lightning Fast, Convenient Lab Testing! 🚚 At BeaconPoint Labs, we're all about lightning fast, precise results, and now we’re making it even easier for you with our new courier service! 🚀 If you’re in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Georgia, or Tennessee, we’ll pick up your samples directly from your facility and ensure they arrive safely at our lab for testing. From nutritional labeling, shelf-life testing, analytical testing, environmental monitoring, microbiology and more we deliver fearless transparency in nutrition testing with every result. Why partner with BeaconPoint Labs? ✅ Save time with convenient, direct sample pick-up. ✅ Get lightning fast turnaround and precise results from our experts. ✅ Experience our steadfast collaboration every step of the way. Together, through relentless discovery and a shared commitment to excellence, we help ensure your product meets the highest standards of quality and safety, from foods to beverages, ingredients, supplements and more. Let us know if you’re ready to schedule a pick-up or learn more about our services. Visit us at https://lnkd.in/e5-39sKk. #RelentlessDiscovery #NutritionTesting #FearlessTransparency #CourierService #SampleTesting #BeaconpointLabs #SteadfastCollaboration

Beaconpoint Labs is now offering Ashwagandha Testing!   Per Market.US, the Ashwagandha market size was valued at $433 million and is expected to grow to $1.187 billion by 2032 with a high CAGR of 10.9%. As a popular supplement for reducing stress, improving sleep and boosting overall well-being. But with the rise in popularity it comes the need for greater attention to product quality and safety.   Why Third-Party Testing Matters ✔ Purity: Ensures that the supplement is free from harmful contaminants like heavy metals, pesticides, and microbial toxins. ✔ Potency: Confirms that the product contains the right levels of key active ingredients (such as withanolides) to deliver the expected benefits. ✔ Transparency: Provides confidence that what’s on the label is what you’re actually getting in the bottle- no hidden ingredients, fillers, or misleading claims. ✔ Regulatory Compliance: Independent testing ensures that the product meets rigorous quality standards that comply with safety regulations.   Testing with Beaconpoint Labs means you can find a trusted partner who treats your business like our business because what matters to you matters to us. #thistimeitspersonal To learn more about how Beaconpoint Labs can support your ashwagandha and supplement testing, click the link below and a dedicated team member will be in touch shortly! https://lnkd.in/e5-39sKk   #ashwagandhatesting #supplementtesting #thistimeitspersonal #nutritiontesting #safetytesting #thirdpartytesting 

🎉 Exciting News! 🎉 We’re thrilled to announce that Beaconpoint Labs will be attending Supply Side West this year! 🌟 As a third-party testing lab dedicated to ensuring the safety and quality of supplements and food products, we’re eager to connect with industry professionals and share our expertise in microbial testing, ingredient verification, and product reliability. Our VP of Sales Ted Andrew and Director of Business Development Amber Cain will be attending and would love to meet you. Reach out to schedule a meeting today by e-mailing tandrew@beaconpointlabs.com or acain@beaconpointlabs.com. Working with a nutrition focused lab for your functional foods, ingredients and supplements testing has endless benefits to ensuring your product quality and goals. What’s important to you? Quick turnaround times? ✔ 5 business day turnaround times Custom Method Development? ✔ We have a dedicated team of R&D scientists here and ready to support your innovation Transparency? ✔ Quick, reliable communication #fearlesstransparency Selling on Amazon? ✔ Let us be your third-party testing lab to confirm your supplements with CoA Your Brand ✔ We agree, and #thistimeitspersonal, we deliver accurate and precise results, enabling you to become a trusted market leader 🌱 Join us in celebrating innovation and quality in the nutritional food, beverage &supplement industry! Let’s work together to enhance product safety and transparency. #SupplySideWest #ThirdPartyTesting #FoodSafety #QualityAssurance #NutritionalIndustry #thistimeitspersonal #Beaconpointlabs #fearlesstransparency

Are you attending the Food Safety Consortium in Arlington, Virginia next week? So are we! Be sure to talk to Ted Andrew our VP of Sales about your lab testing needs and Sharon K. K. Beals who will not only be attending but also presenting. Sharon will be presenting “The Art and Science of Risk: Comprehensive Approaches to Analysis, Management, and Communication” on Tuesday from 1-1:45pm. Third-party testing labs are an integral part of your overall food safety system. Some of the key benefits include: 1.     Proactive Risk Management: Regular testing where it counts the most, helps identify potential issues before they compromise safety, allowing for immediate corrective actions. We provide the expertise to devise the best program for your facility and product line. 2. Enhanced Compliance: Staying ahead of the regulations pertinent to your operation protects your customers, public health, and your brand; all critical components of ensuring consumer confidence. We stay on top of the regulatory changes to help support your organization. 3. Quality Assurance: Consistent testing and assessment of the data for trends supports continuous improvement efforts in production processes. Consistency drives adherence to specification that meets your customers’ requirements day in and out. 4. Traceability: A detailed history of product safety data is essential should there be a loss of control.   To learn more about how Beaconpoint Labs can be your partner in food safety testing click the link below and a dedicated team member will be in touch shortly. https://lnkd.in/e5-39sKk   #foodsafety #microbiology #salmonella #ecoli #listeria #foodsafetyconsortium2024 #beaconpointlabs #thistimeitspersonal