Food Fortification, Measured: The Analytical Testing Behind the Standards
Food fortification has moved from a public health aspiration to a regulatory reality in India. FSSAI's fortification standards now cover key staples, and the +F logo that consumers recognise comes with specific analytical requirements that food businesses must meet.
Consider rice fortification. Adding iron, folic acid, and Vitamin B12 to rice kernels is one thing. Verifying that those nutrients are present at the right levels in the finished product requires rigorous analytical testing using techniques like ICP-MS for mineral quantification and LC/MS for fat-soluble and water-soluble vitamins. Without that data, a fortification claim is just a label.
Milk fortification tells a similar story. Vitamin A and Vitamin D are routinely added to milk across India, but confirming their stability and concentration through the supply chain requires HPLC-based methods that can detect these micronutrients accurately even in complex dairy matrices. This webinar brings together regulatory and scientific perspectives to give food professionals a clear picture of where India's fortification programme stands today, what the analytical standards demand, and where the industry needs to sharpen its approach.
Key Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the current FSSAI regulatory framework for food fortification in India, including recent updates to standards across staple categories
- Learn about the analytical methods used to measure vitamins and minerals in fortified foods, including LC/MS, HPLC, and ICP-MS, and the challenges specific to different food matrices
- Get clarity on what FSSAI's +F endorsement requirements mean for testing and documentation
- Identify common gaps in fortification testing programmes and how to address them
- Understand what regulators expect when manufacturers make fortification claims on labels
Who Should Attend:
This webinar is for professionals in the Indian food industry involved in food safety, quality, or product development, specifically:
QA and QC managers responsible for fortified food categories, R&D scientists working on product formulation and fortification, regulatory affairs professionals managing FSSAI compliance, lab heads and analytical chemists working on food testing, food safety officers in manufacturing facilities, procurement and technical teams working with fortification premix suppliers.
Presenter: Dr. Dinesh Kumar Singh (Assistant Professor, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, NIFTEM-K, India)
Presenter: Dr. Vikrant Goel (Application Scientist, Agilent Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.)
Vikrant comes with an extensive 19 years of experience working in QA/QC, R&D and Analytical roles and an expert in various LCMS technologies. His solution-based approach has been well accepted among LCMS fraternity from Pharma and Applied market segments, since 2004. He holds an M.tech in Biotechnology, PG Dip in Bioinformatics & B. Pharm. He joined Agilent in 2010, as a Product specialist for LC/MS, after having worked with ILS Bioservices & LabIndia Instruments. His passion towards solution, brought him back to the Application role, 6 years ago.
Presenter: Dr. Vinay Jain (Application Engineer, Agilent Technologies, India)
Dr. Vinay Jain is working as the CoE Manager and Country Food Workflow Commercialization Lead at Agilent Technologies International. He holds a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry and has more than 33 years of analytical and research experience in spectroscopic and mass spectrometry techniques.
His specialization includes the development and validation of new analytical methods in accordance with regulatory guidelines. He has completed over 28 research projects with various national and international research and regulatory organizations. He holds two patents, has published 59 research papers, contributed two chapters to international handbooks, and authored 15 Agilent application notes. He received the Agilent TechInnovation Award in 2020 and 2022 for providing end-to-end workflow solutions. One of his innovations on LC-ICPMS was selected for the Winter Plasma Conference, and two were selected for the European Winter Plasma Conference for poster presentations.
