Testimonials: What Does It Mean to Use Validated and Verified Methods in the Food Industry?

The food and feed industry spend millions of U.S. dollars every year analyzing their products to make sure the product is the correct functionality, quality and safe.  The industry also monitors their environment to be more proactive in discovering and reacting to preventing issues before they show up in the product.  The reason we do all this testing is to obtain data to use to make decisions on the products being produced and our environment.  Thus, it is critical to get the most accurate data science can provide.  The use of scientifically approved and validated methods is essential to be successful at making the correct decisions.  The problem is many people do not understand what it means to be an approved and validated method.  I will discuss the importance to the food and feed industry to use validated and verified methods and the challenges of why this is so hard today.