Laboratory automation systems help keep food safe

2026-06-18 16:49:11

During the Dragon Boat Festival, the fragrance of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaves carries centuries of cultural memory and the taste of home. From salted egg yolk and pork zongzi to red date and bean paste zongzi, no family table is complete without a plump zongzi. Yet behind this traditional delicacy, there's an invisible checkpoint quietly protecting every consumer's health—food safety testing.

According to national food safety standards, zongzi must go through strict heavy metal testing before hitting the shelves. Behind this is a whole set of intricate and complex lab procedures—from the moment the samples enter the lab to when the final test results come out, every step matters for the accuracy and reliability of the results.

The Dilemma of Traditional Testing: Efficiency vs. Accuracy

In the past, food heavy metal testing labs relied heavily on manual work. Lab staff had to complete a bunch of steps one by one, like registering samples, weighing, transferring, adding acid, digesting, making up volume, diluting, preparing standards, injecting samples, and running analyses. They faced a ton of issues, including high dependence on manual labor, long processing times, high risk of errors, difficulty tracing data, excessive acid use, and high contamination.

Lab Automation Plan: Making 'Zong' Testing More Efficient

01 AIMS Intelligent Platform completes the full-process automated data management for labs and has powerful LIMS/QMS modules.

02 Samples are identified by scanning, and the information is instantly entered into the LIMS system for full process tracking.

03 Transfer the samples to the weighing area using the AGV robot, then automatically weigh them and record the mass.

04 The samples are transferred to the digestion area, where you can choose from various digestion modules like electric heating, microwave, or super microwave, allowing for fully automatic digestion of tricky samples.

05 Automatically calls methods to complete operations like acid addition, digestion, volume making, and mixing.

06 Automatically complete the preparation of standard curves and add internal/external standards; if the digestion solution concentration exceeds the limit, smart dilution can be triggered.

07 It can seamlessly connect with analytical instruments, and reverse-control ICP-OES/ICP-MS to achieve truly fully automated, digital, and information-based experimental workflows.

The Dragon Boat Festival carries the Chinese people's heartfelt wishes for health and safety. When we enjoy eating zongzi, behind it are countless lab testers working diligently and precise instruments strictly checking every batch of ingredients.

Our automated solution for inorganic labs is designed to make this protection more efficient, precise, and effortless. From the zongzi of the Dragon Boat Festival to the entire food industry, from sample information entry to data output, we use “AI chemistry robot” technology to build a solid line of defense for food safety.

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