Toro Texture & Consulting LLC offers specialized services in the measurement of physical parameters for many industries, including but not limited to, food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and packaging.  Toro Texture & Consulting LLC is dedicated to becoming a valued partner for industry to establish another means for determining the quality of their products.  These industries must ensure the texture of their products remain constant for their consumers.  This section of the business will perform texture analysis testing, developing methods specific to the client’s products, and act as a resource for data for writing patents or to ensure the current product does not infringe upon an existing patent.  Texture methods your company may chose to use include, but are not limited to the following:

                Break Force
3-point Bend
                Extrusion
Flexibility
Adhesiveness
Tackiness
                Gel Strength
Flowability of Powders
Caking of Powders
Puncture or Rupture Force
Stickiness of Creams
Kramer Shearer
Film Resistance
Tensile Strength
                Compression
Peel Test
Springiness
                Crunchiness
                AIB Standard Methods        
Cohesion
Your company specified method 

Other methods available:

                Moisture
Viscosity

  For more information on the equipment used for texture analysis, or for methods and instrument capabilities, please visit the website of Texture Technologies.

Consulting

Toro Texture & Consulting LLC will also provide consulting services for analytical laboratories.  These services will include:


Shelf life study design
Method failure investigations 
Experimental design Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) selection, 
configuration, implementation, and training    
Failure Analysis of Products Manage external testing for failure analysis issues