MAE for fat analysis Archive

De Heus Animal Nutrition is an international producer of a complete range of compound feed, premixes, concentrates and feed specialties, providing farmers with nutritional concepts to keep animals healthy and let them produce optimally. The De Heus laboratory in the Netherlands needed to reduce analysis time and to produce more accurate and reliable results on several raw materials and feed matrices. The adopted Soxhlet method is a time-consuming and labor-intensive technique and it is not able to provide reproducible results on samples with bound fat. The lab purchased Milestone’s ETHOS X microwave extraction systems to replace the Soxhlet technique. The ETHOS X performes total fat determination on several feed samples in a fraction of the time with reduced solvent usage and disposal.

Eurofins offers high quality assurance and control services such as testing, certification, inspection, audits, technical services and regulations for manufacturers, brand owners, distributors and retailers throughout the world. Since throughput and fast delivery of results is a key point for the Eurofins group, they have already in use a Milestone ultraWAVE digestion system for sample preparation for trace metal analysis. At Eurofins Scientific in Nantes, France, the laboratory needed to reduce analysis time on over 200 samples received per day in order to produce results faster for their clients. The current sequential technology was a time consuming technique and not able to provide reproducible results on samples with very low fat content. The lab purchased seven Milestone’s ETHOS X microwave extraction systems as an alternative to sequential and Soxhlet techniques. The ETHOS X performes total fat determination on food samples in a fraction of the time with minimum solvent usage.