Feed Additive Testing

Feed additive refers to the substance added in the process of feed production, processing and use, which has a small amount in feed but a significant effect. Feed additives are inevitable raw materials used in modern feed industry, which have obvious effects on strengthening the nutritional value of basic feed, improving animal production performance, ensuring animal health, saving feed costs and improving the quality of animal products.

In recent years, the feed additive industry has developed rapidly. While it has produced huge benefits, it also has certain safety risks. For example, the use of trace element additives has led to excessive heavy metals in environmental soil and water; the excessive use of medicinal additives has led to excessive residues of feed additives in meat, milk, and eggs. This is a great threat to animal and human health. Therefore, the indiscriminate use of feed additives has become a major problem that needs to be solved urgently in the current feed industry. Feed additive testing helps to control the standard, reasonable and safe use of feed additives in feed, so that feed additives can exert their true value and better benefit people.

STEMart provides comprehensive feed additive testing services to ensure the standard, reasonable and safe use of feed additives in feed.

Test Samples

Growth promoting additives, trace element additives, amino acid additives, vitamin additives, antibiotic additives, hormone additives, color adsorption additives, anti-mold additives and feed preservatives, etc.

Standard Tests

• Conventional physical and chemical indicators: moisture, crude protein, total phosphorus, crude ash, calcium, crude fiber, crude fat, sodium chloride, fatty acids, various amino acids
• Heavy metals and harmful substances: heavy metals (cadmium, chromium, lead, arsenic, mercury, etc.), melamine, zearalenone, vomitoxin, aflatoxin
• Microbial indicators: total bacterial colonies, coliforms, pathogenic bacteria, molds and yeasts, etc.
• Feed enzyme preparations: cellulase, phytase, pectinase, amylase, glucanase, xylanase, acid protease, neutral protease, hemicellulase, galactosidase, glucoamylase, lipase, etc.
• Other testing items: malondialdehyde, peroxide value, fluorine, lutein, calcium dihydrogen phosphate, copper sulfate, zinc sulfate, magnesium sulfate, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, gluten content in flour, phospholipid acetone insoluble matter, volatile base hydrogen, liquid phospholipid ether insoluble matter, vitamin C content, cholesterol, starch gelatinization degree

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