Middle East and Africa Food Safety Testing Market, By Testing Type (System, Test Kits and Consumables), Type of Tests (Food Safety Testing, Food Authenticity Testing and Food Shelf Life Testing), Site (In-house/Internal Lab and Outsourcing Facility), Application (Food, Cereals & Grains, Oilseeds & Pulses, Nuts and Beverages) - Industry Trends and Forecast to 2030.
Middle East and Africa Food Safety Testing Market Analysis and Size
Food safety and quality are major concerns for food manufacturing and the retail and hospitality industry. Food quality and hygiene have an impact on productivity. In recent years both intentional and unintentional adulteration has become high-tech and testing laboratories can help to detect these adulterants. The most important function of the food safety testing laboratories is to test foods for adulterants, pathogens, pesticide residues, chemical contaminants such as heavy metals, microbial contaminants, non-permitted additives, colors, among others and antibiotics in food. Without food testing, food producers and manufacturers cannot ensure that pesticides, antibiotics, heavy metals and naturally occurring toxins, among others. Thus, it is important to ensure food safety.
The demand for food testing is increasing, for which manufacturers are now more focused and they are involved in the new product launch, promotion, awards, certification and event participation in the market. These decisions are ultimately enhancing the growth of the market.
Data Bridge Market Research analyses that the Middle East and Africa food safety testing market is expected to reach a value of USD 2,501.71 million by 2030, at a CAGR of 6.9% during the forecast period. The Middle East and Africa food safety testing market report also covers all the parameters that affect the market covered in this research study have been accounted for, viewed in extensive detail, verified through primary research and analysed to get the final quantitative and qualitative data.
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Report Metric
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Details
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Forecast Period
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2023 to 2030
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Base Year
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2022
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Historic Year
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2021 (Customizable to 2020-1015)
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Quantitative Units
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Revenue in USD Million
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Segments Covered
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By Testing Type (System, Test Kits and Consumables), Type of Tests (Food Safety Testing, Food Authenticity Testing and Food Shelf Life Testing), Site (In-house/Internal Lab and Outsourcing Facility), Application (Food, Cereals & Grains, Oilseeds & Pulses, Nuts and Beverages)
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Countries Covered
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South Africa, Saudi Arabia, U.A.E, Kuwait and Rest of Middle East and Africa
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Market Players Covered
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Eurofins Scientific, Shimadzu Corporation, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., PerkinElmer Inc., FOSS, ALS, LexaGene, ROKA BIO SCIENCE, Biorex Food Diagnostics (BFD), Randox Food Diagnostics, Omega Diagnostics Group PLC, Romer Labs Division Holding GmbH, SGS Société Générale de Surveillance SA, 3M, Clear Labs, Inc., Invisible Sentinel, Ring Biotechnology Co Ltd., BIOMÉRIEUX SA, Agilent Technologies, Inc., NEOGEN Corporation, Spectro Analytical Labs Ltd. and Noack Group among others
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Market Definition
Food testing is the scientific analysis of food and food contents. It is done to provide information about the various characteristics of food, including its structure, composition and physicochemical properties. Food safety testing includes various tests performed for other reasons, such as testing the product's quality and quality control. Food product testing can be done using several highly advanced methods for providing accurate information about the nutritional value and safety of the food. The most common methods of food product testing are analytical chemistry testing, sensory testing, microbiology testing and nutrition analysis. Food product testing determines nutrient content using laboratory, turnkey, nutrition analysis, software and online nutrition analysis. Lab analysis is the most preferred method.
Food testing and analysis are essential to food safety to ensure food is safe to consume. This includes nourishing the network of food testing laboratories, assuring the quality of food testing, investing in human resources and carrying out surveillance activities and educating consumers.
Middle East and Africa Food Safety Testing Market Dynamics
This section deals with understanding the market drivers, advantages, opportunities, restraints and challenges. All of this is discussed in detail below:
Drivers
- Increase in the number of food-borne illness cases
The increasing number of cases of food-borne illness among individuals worldwide is expected to drive the Middle East and Africa food safety testing market. Consuming spoiled, contaminated, or deteriorated food items with various microorganisms, such as bacteria, fungi, parasites, viruses and others, is the prime cause of food-borne illness. Moreover, other contaminants such as mycotoxins, heavy metals and chemicals are also leading to rising cases of food-borne illness among people. These growing cases significantly increase the demand for food testing kits, equipment and systems across the region. The main reason behind the increased food-borne disease in the food industry is the unaware workforce, food handlers and manufacturers, as they lack knowledge of modern technologies, good manufacturing practices (GMP), hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP) systems and quality control. The lack of knowledge among workers leads to an increased prevalence of the food-borne disease.
- Increase in consumer awareness regarding food safety
With the increasing number of food-borne illness cases and food poisoning issues, more consumers are becoming aware of the importance of eating safe and healthy food. This has led to a higher demand for good quality and safe food among individuals, generating the demand for food safety testing equipment. The increasing incidences of food-borne diseases have prompted consumers to bring about vital changes in their diet and lifestyle, making them more concerned regarding food safety. Consumers are aware of their food and food safety is their prime concern.
Food safety is important for consumers' health, the entire food industry and regulatory authorities. With the rising concern about food safety among consumers, the government is also taking initiatives to promote safe food to consumers.
- Increase in the number of food product recalls
A product recall is a request by a manufacturer to consumers to return the product after discovering the presence of pathogens or safety issues in the product that might endanger the consumer's life. The product recall can put the manufacturer at risk of legal action. The increasing product recall cases in different brands and companies due to food contamination, either with a pathogen, heavy metals, or certain chemicals, is leading to higher demands for food safety testing equipment and systems. Food contamination may lead to serious health issues for consumers, bringing food safety kits and systems into greater consideration. There has been plenty of cases of product recalls with different manufacturers.
Restraints
- Lack of infrastructure facilities for food testing
The increasing number of product recalls, food contamination cases, food poisoning incidents and rising consumer awareness has led to the rising demand for food safety facilities across the region. However, the lack of infrastructure facilities in food testing laboratories is hampering the growth of the Middle East and Africa food safety testing market. In order to gain accurate results for food tests, good hygienic conditions should be maintained in the labs, but the laboratories are not well developed in terms of infrastructure, safe water, staff training, modern technologies for quality assurance, packaging operations and standard sanitizing procedures. Also, implementing microbiological controls in a GMP or HACCP program is basically beyond question because of insufficient or inadequate plant conditions.
- Lack of technical expertise in small enterprises
The small enterprises and manufacturers of food products don't have enough information regarding the new and high-tech food safety methods, services and programs. They are thus unable to meet the specific requirements for food safety. Therefore, a lack of skills and knowledge, especially in developing countries, will affect the effective evaluation and inspection of food operations. Technical expertise and knowledge are essential to implement any such procedures. Thus, the government should conduct certain programs to educate workers so that maximum food safety testing and, thus, safety can be achieved. Lack of experience and technical knowledge, especially in small enterprises, will lead to some serious contamination of food and beverage products which will result in food-borne disease and can cause severe problems. The lack of expertise and technical knowledge could harm the food safety testing industry. The increasing automation in the industry requires skilled and technically sound persons to operate the machinery and small-scale enterprises cannot find skilled professionals for the same.
Opportunities
- Growing demand and popularity for clean-label food
Clean-label food products contain food ingredients that are most natural and less processed. Consumers are opting for healthy and clean food options to live healthier lifestyles, thus increasing the demand for food safety testing. Nowadays, consumers are getting more inclined towards clean-labeled food, free from preservatives or additives, to continue a certain lifestyle. Also, the awareness regarding promoting a sustainable environment by using clean-label products is boosting the market's growth. With the rising demand for clean label food or safe label food products, the demand for food safety testing is also increasing as manufacturers offer safe food label products to ensure consumers that the food products are free from any harmful pathogens, mycotoxins, heavy metals and chemicals.
Challenges
- Lack of uniform quality safety standard
In recent years, the demand for clean and safe food products has suddenly increased among consumers, which has led to the development of different and new food safety standards by governmental bodies. As a result, the number of national standards for food safety has increased and confused. Moreover, the food safety regulations differ from country to country, as food is considered safe for consumption in one country but not safe to import into other countries. Therefore, the need to harmonize the food safety standard is rising. The increase in the number of initiatives taken by the governmental authorities to give the food safety standard uniformity will help tackle the major challenge faced by the Middle East and Africa food safety testing market.
Recent Developments
- In May, Biomerieux acquired Specific Diagnostics, a privately held company that has developed an antimicrobial susceptibility test. It helped the company to expand its leadership globally
- In April, FOSS announced the release of targeted adulteration models, allowing milk-testing facilities to program test instruments to screen raw milk samples for known sources of milk adulteration. The new models complement an existing un-targeted model that allows the detection of any abnormalities
Middle East and Africa Food Safety Testing Market Scope
The Middle East and Africa food safety testing market is segmented into testing type, type of tests, site and application. The growth amongst these segments will help you analyze major growth segments in the industries and provide the users with a valuable market overview and market insights to help them make strategic decisions for identifying core market applications.
Testing Type
- System
- Test Kits
- Consumables
On the basis of testing type, the Middle East and Africa food safety testing market is segmented into system, test kits and consumables.
Type of Tests
- Food Safety Testing
- Food Authenticity Testing
- Food Shelf Life Testing
On the basis of type of tests, the Middle East and Africa food safety testing market is segmented into food safety testing, food authenticity testing and food shelf life testing.
Site
- In-house/Internal Lab
- Outsourcing Facility
On the basis of site, the Middle East and Africa food safety testing market is segmented into in-house/internal lab and outsourcing facility.
Application
- Food
- Cereals & Grains
- Oilseed & Pulses
- Nuts
- Beverages
On the basis of application, the Middle East and Africa food safety testing market is segmented into food, cereals & grains, oilseeds & pulses, nuts and beverages.
Middle East and Africa Food Safety Testing Market Regional Analysis/Insights
The Middle East and Africa food safety testing market is analyzed and market size insights and trends are provided by country, testing type, type of tests, site and application as referenced above.
Some countries covered in the Middle East and Africa food safety testing market report are South Africa, Saudi Arabia, U.A.E, Kuwait and Rest of Middle East and Africa.
South Africa is anticipated to dominate the Middle East and Africa food safety testing market owing to the stringent rules and regulations for food safety.
The country section of the report also provides individual market-impacting factors and changes in market regulation that impact the current and future trends of the market. Data points like down-stream and upstream value chain analysis, technical trends and porter's five forces analysis, case studies are some of the pointers used to forecast the market scenario for individual countries. Also, the presence and availability of Middle East and African brands and their challenges faced due to large or scarce competition from local and domestic brands, impact of domestic tariffs and trade routes are considered while providing forecast analysis of the country data.
Competitive Landscape and Middle East and Africa Food Safety Testing Market Share Analysis
Middle East and Africa food safety testing market competitive landscape provides details by competitor. Details included are company overview, company financials, revenue generated, market potential, investment in research and development, new market initiatives, Middle East and Africa presence, production sites and facilities, production capacities, company strengths and weaknesses, product launch, product width and breadth, application dominance. The above data points provided are only related to the companies' focus on the Middle East and Africa food safety testing market.
Some of the major players operating in the Middle East and Africa food safety testing market are Eurofins Scientific, Shimadzu Corporation, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., PerkinElmer Inc., FOSS, ALS, LexaGene, ROKA BIO SCIENCE, Biorex Food Diagnostics (BFD), Randox Food Diagnostics, Omega Diagnostics Group PLC, Romer Labs Division Holding GmbH, SGS Société Générale de Surveillance SA, 3M, Clear Labs, Inc., Invisible Sentinel, Ring Biotechnology Co Ltd., BIOMÉRIEUX SA, Agilent Technologies, Inc., NEOGEN Corporation, Spectro Analytical Labs Ltd. and Noack Group among others.
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