Liquid chromatography analysis ensures accurate ingredient composition in soft drink production

Customer: Coca-Cola Filling Company
Technology: Waters ® ACQUITY UPLC ® H-Class System and Beverage Analysis Kit


By minimizing non-conforming products, production plants can save an average of nearly $24,000.00.

background
Headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, Coca-Cola Filling Company (CCBCU) has three production plants and eighteen sales centers in six states in the southeastern United States. The company is the third largest Coca-Cola product filling company in the United States and the largest private Coca-Cola product filling company with approximately 3,000 employees. The company manufactures and markets over 400 different beverages including: Coca-Cola ® , Coca-Cola Zero ® , Diet Coke ® , Sprite ® , Dr Pepper ® , Fanta ® , DASANI ® , POWERADE ® , Minute Maid ® and vitaminwater ® and so on.
The quality control laboratory set up at the production plant is responsible for inspecting the components of the products produced to ensure the “six major” additives (preservatives – sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate; sweeteners – acesulfame, aspartame The content of saccharin and caffeine is in compliance with the regulations. Each factory has an annual production capacity of one million boxes. If liquid chromatography is used, each laboratory needs to analyze five to fifteen batches of products per day.
challenge
The soft drinks produced and sold by CCBCU are world-renowned brands. In order to ensure product consistency and customer satisfaction, it is very important to accurately quantify the “six major” additives in the production process.

By minimizing non-conforming products, production plants can save an average of nearly $ 24,000.00 .
To improve efficiency and control operating costs, quality control laboratories have long sought a new approach to liquid chromatography that is simpler, faster, and requires fewer samples than traditional methods. This method ensures that the products produced in the factory meet the requirements shown on the label, thereby reducing unqualified products and reducing costs.
solution
To help achieve laboratory work objectives and product quality standards, the Quality Control Lab at the Baton Rouge and Chattanooga production facilities has customized an analytical solution that includes the Waters ACQUITY UPLC ® H-Class with TUV detectors. Empower ® chromatography software and Waters Beverage Analysis Kit.
The Waters Beverage Analysis Kit includes pre-configured mobile phases, cleaning reagents, standards, and specific methods of operation, greatly reducing sample requirements. The kit is capable of analyzing “six major” additives and is easy to use and highly reproducible.
ACQUITY UPLC H-Class HPLC system combines four yuan UPLC ® flexibility and excellent performance, allowing the user to continue to use the conventional method of HPLC or UPLC method proceeds to existing systems based on the use of the tools and the column , thus simplifying the method transfer step.
Empower software is used to manage the acquisition, processing, and reporting requirements of all chromatographic data.
Business benefit
By using the Waters ACQUITY UPLC H-Class system with a beverage analysis kit, CCBCU has improved in many aspects of the production process, including:
>> Laboratory efficiency
With the Waters Beverage Analysis Kit, analysts no longer need to spend valuable time preparing mobile phases, wash solutions or standards. In addition, the laboratory does not need to purchase additional analytical equipment, such as the equivalent of the time required to make the reagents.
>> Data quality
With the ACQUITY UPLC H-Class system, accurate, reproducible analytical data for the “six” soft drink additives can be obtained in approximately 7.5 minutes.
>> Save cost
By minimizing non-conforming products, production plants can save an average of nearly $24,000.00.
>> Product consistency
The new approach helps to ensure that the products produced by the factory meet the requirements and that only the products with the best and uniform quality are on the market to help the customer get the best experience and strengthen the product brand.

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