DairyGuard™ Milk Powder Analyzer For the Better

Your most important ingredient… The cost of most raw ingredients is rising all the time. And as a food producer, you’re continually looking for the most cost-effective solution for getting your product to market. Problem is, there’s always the chance that those low-cost ingredients are less expensive for the simple reason that they’ve been economically adulterated. This adulteration could be due to “bulking” with low-cost ingredients – a method that’s easily discovered by measuring protein content through common tests such as Kjeldahl or Dumas. But more sophisticated forms of adulteration are...

ENSURING SAFETY WITH EVERY SAMPLE Do you know what you’re looking for? For more than 100 years, dairy producers have paid ingredient suppliers based on nutritional parameters, with protein content being particularly important for milk. Standard assays for food ingredients involve measuring the total nitrogen concentration and then relying on a constant calibration factor to obtain the protein content. So by adding high-nitrogen compounds to protein-rich foods, some suppliers could generate a higher protein content reading. And a higher price. In this way, urea, cyanuric acid, and, yes, melamine...

Guiding you through the process With hardware this simple to use and maintain, your software should be simple, too. Spectrum™ Touch software allows anybody in your lab to analyze your raw ingredients – not just analytical chemists. Spectrum Touch software can be set up to tell you, with just a few clicks, whether your milk powder’s protein, moisture, and fat are at acceptable levels. But more than that, you get a red light/green light (pass/ fail) answer as to your sample’s integrity. Through nontargeted testing, the system alerts you to any known – or unknown – adulterants in your milk powder,...

YOUR SAMPLES YOUR METHODS YOUR PEACE OF MIND The best method is what works for you Milk powder screening requirements are as individual as the milk powder providers themselves. For that reason, we ensure that your DairyGuard methods are tailored and tuned to your specific detection requirements. Whatever type of dairy powder you produce, we provide quantitative methods that detect for protein, moisture, and fat. But what sets DairyGuard apart is its qualitative, nontargeted screening method for known and unknown adulterants. The key is its simplicity: a pass/fail test that alerts you to the presence...

Your requirements, your methods Your milk products are affected by local geography, climate conditions, and a host of other factors specific to your business. So you need methods that take your requirements into consideration – no cookie cutter solution will do. Today’s laboratories are scientific and commercial enterprises – and to compete and win in both endeavors, you need service and support that takes your whole lab into consideration. PerkinElmer OneSource® Laboratory Services brings the most advanced solutions to bear on the asset management and operational challenges you face every day....

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