Analytical Instrumentation Market in Food Testing Market Trends

Market Trends of Analytical Instrumentation Industry in Food Testing

The Chromatography Segment is Expected to Witness Significant Market Growth

• Gas and liquid chromatography are increasingly finding applications in the quantitative screening of environmental samples, food safety testing, and complex molecular analysis. Gas chromatography provides a method to separate mixtures based on their retention time as they pass through a column with an ultra-pure carrier gas. Specialized detectors of gas chromatography can detect target compounds at much lower limits than other techniques, indicating that gas chromatography has a high degree of sensitivity.
• Gas chromatography is used to identify dangerous compounds and track the concentrations of acceptable substances. Food makers can also put their ingredients through a chromatography column to determine the precise breakdown of the substances they intend to employ. For instance, according to StatCan, there were 2,180 food manufacturing establishments in the province of Ontario as of December 2021. Such a huge number of food manufacturing establishments may drive the market over the forecast period.
• Liquid chromatography has applications ranging from complex proteomic analyses to routine industrial quality control and quality assurance (QC/QA). Ion chromatography (IC) applications are used in environmental testing, scientific research, and quality control in industries such as food and beverage. The commercialization of columns that provide multiple modes of chromatographic separations is on the rise. For example, combinations of retention modes, like ion exchange and reversed phase, usually enable the separation of complex mixtures of analytes, which is impossible using single-mode columns.
• The companies in the market focus on software solutions to provide greater automation and better workflow support. For instance, the Thermo Scientific Chromeleon 7.3 CDS software provides greater automation and better workflow support. The Chromeleon 7.3 CDS can be easily integrated into company systems and scaled from workstations to global enterprise deployment, ensuring continuity throughout the business. Using cloud-based technology, the software allows operation from remote locations across global laboratory networks, reducing administrative costs and providing resourcing flexibility while delivering accurate results, even for non-expert users.
• Market players are introducing new solutions by integrating with innovative technologies in the region. For instance, in February 2021, Waters Corporation launched Waters ACQUITY PREMIER Solution, the next-generation liquid chromatograph featuring the company's MaxPeak High-Performance Surface (HPS) technology. This solution leverages HPS to improve analytical data quality and eliminate time-consuming and costly passivation.

Asia-Pacific is Expected to Witness Significant Market Growth

• Analytical lab instruments in the Asia-Pacific region encompass a broad range of instrumentation whose purpose is to quantitatively and qualitatively analyze samples, the chemical makeup, and the quantity of each component within a sample. The broad range of available equipment enables various testing methods and their respective applications. The firms are entering new agreements to satisfy the customer's needs in the region and increase their product portfolios.
• For instance, in January 2022, Agilent Technologies Inc. announced signing a Research Collaboration Agreement (RCA) with the Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), abstracting their collaboration on developing food research knowledge advancement over the next two years. The collaboration strives to bring advanced science and technology to drive innovation in food, ingredients, nutrition, industrial biotechnology, and related applications. Over the last two years, Agilent has been vigorously contributing to R&D in food sustainability, security, and innovation to enhance the quality of life in Singapore, which supports the government's ambitious plan of producing 30% of the nation's nutritional needs by 2030.
• In December 2021, PerkinElmer announced its plan to provide its customers with even greater access to its extensive and innovative dairy testing portfolio by initiating Everest Instrument Pvt. Ltd, a prominent, advanced automation, digital solution, and device provider for the Indian dairy industry, as its head dairy solutions distributor in India. The collaboration aims to enable organizations across the large, in-country supply chain to leverage innovative technologies developed to meet regulatory and consumer demands, like the PerkinElmer IndiScope FT-IR raw milk analyzer.
• Due to greater investments in testing and R&D activities, countries like India are becoming the developing markets in the analytical instruments business. Investments in the market are also being driven by the expanding end-user industries in the country. As a result, since the turn of the century, the market for analytical tools has been growing exponentially. The industry was impacted by ever-shrinking margins, and growth slowed to high single digits during the last 2-3 years. Although top lines are still increasing, demand for procurement from both public and private groups is restraining the bottom lines of businesses.
• For instance, in June 2022, the Union Minister for Health, Family Welfare, and Chemicals and Fertilizers officially opened the food testing lab at Raxaul, Bihar. A bilateral agreement between India and Nepal called for establishing this laboratory to speed up testing food samples imported into Raxaul from Nepal. Shortening testing times and quicker report creation for the imported samples may speed up cross-border trade with Nepal.