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Reliable nutritional analysis in a minimal time: AMINONIR®

Published: August 25, 2022
Source : Evonik Animal Nutrition
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YOUR CHALLENGE
You want your livestock to always be healthy and strong, with realistic and cost-effective effort. Feed with the best nutritional values ensures this. Raw material variability, price volatility, fierce competition – stakeholders throughout the livestock feed value chain face tough challenges.
Whether you are a feed miller, soybean processor or a producer of corn DDGS (distiller's dried grains with solubles), of rapeseed or mustard meal, fish meal or animal byproduct meals:
  • raw material quality differs by origin
  • purchasing decisions need reliable data to judge the offered quality
  • quality control needs fast but reliable methods
  • raw material quality is impacted by antinutritional factors like trypsin inhibitors or glucosinolates
  • quality is impacted by overheating
  • customers expect a stable product
  • quality although the raw material quality is highly variable
Reliable and timely information about the nutritional value of your raw materials and products, allows you to optimize your processes and gain a competitive advantage based on verifiably superior quality.
OUR SOLUTION
In response to those challenges, Evonik has developed a comprehensive range of analytical solutions that equip you with precise and up-to-date nutritional data on feed ingredients and finished feeds. The AMINONIR® services use near infrared (NIR) spectrometry to determine key factors like amino acid contents.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
In NIR spectrometry, invisible near infrared light is beamed to a sample, causing molecules in the sample to vibrate. This interaction with the molecules consumes energy by absorbing elements of the introduced light. In the case of liquid samples, residual light passes through the material, while solid samples reflect the light. This light is measured with a detector and gives a spectrum.
The spectral information is further used and evaluated for example to identify unknown samples (fingerprinting) or to estimate its nutritional composition via the application of NIR calibrations.
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CALIBRATION QUALITY IS KEY FOR THE BEST RESULTS
What makes AMINO‌NIR® services stand out is Evonik’s experience in calibration development.
In NIR calibration development, spectra of many typical samples of one material are combined with the corresponding values of an analytical reference method. The final calibration describes the correlation between the set of spectra and the reference values. By applying that correlation to spectra of further unknown samples, all calibrated parameters can be mathematically predicted.
The quality of reference analysis is critical to calibration accuracy. For this reason, reference labs must be inspected on a regular basis. Evonik’s reference lab – AMINOLab® – is a network of three wet-chemistry laboratories based in Germany, China and Singapore. Their accuracy and precision is monitored via regular independent ring tests as well as by internal control samples.
OUR BENEFITS FROM AMINONIR® AT A GLANCE
1. Better animal health
2. Lower nitrogen emissions
3. Reliable and timely nutritional data
4. Comparison of nutritional value when selecting feed ingredients
5. Full support in optimizing your feed specification
6. Up-to-date knowledge of fluctuating feed ingredient quality
7. Fast support from experts in your region
 
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Markus Wiltafsky
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