Spirits, wine and beer

Aromatic profiling

Understanding your products’ unique aroma and flavour profile are crucial when it comes to brand enhancement, optimising production processes, resolving any batch discrepancies or issues of taint. Oxford Indices laboratory equipped with two-dimensional gas chromatography coupled with time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GCxGC-TOF-MS), delivers accurate mapping of volatile and semi-volatile compounds in your product. This permits identification and quantification of the key components contributing to scent and taste, whilst minimising the prospect of important components being 'masked' by large solvent peaks.

• Insights for processing and formulation

• Product differentiation

• Batch comparison and quality assurance

• Problem diagnosis – taint and odour.

Authenticity and counterfeit detection

Successful brands present the opportunity for third parties to copy, counterfeit and infringe intellectual property increases exponentially. Counterfeit, substandard or adulterated products can lower the customer experience, damaging brand perception. Having a unique 3D surface chart or ‘fingerprint’ of your products composition enables product comparison and fraud detection, whether form blending, watering down or imitation. For brand protection, Oxford Indices offers a ‘mystery shopper’ sampling service and quality check for both on-trade and off-trade retail applications.

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