Nutritional Equivalency – Feeds of different types can often contain approximately equivalent levels of certain nutrients, and this information is useful in product-to-product feed comparisons. Avazyme uses quantitative chromatographic methods to determine the nutritional content of your product and cross references our archive of nutritional analyses to determine any nutritional equivalencies involving your product.
Feed Quality Testing – As the value of precise nutrition in agriculture continues to grow, so does your ability to offer valuable feed quality information to customers. Avazyme utilizes GC-MS and LC-MS to provide precise quantitative information on the following nutrients and feed quality indicators:
- Rancidity Testing
- Antioxidants
- Vitamins
- Nutritional Contents – Avazyme uses both agar plate methods and qPCR to test for the following foodborne pathogens, among others: Salmonella spp., Listeria monocytogenes & Listeria spp., Bacillus cereus enterotoxin, E.coli O157:H7 & Escherichia & coliform spp., Staphylococcus aureus, yeast and mold, Vibrio cholerae & Vibrio spp., and Enterobacteriaceae.
- Micronutrients
- Comprehensive pesticide screen (300 pesticides)
- USDA-Organic pesticide screen
- Storage Stability
Contaminants and Adulterants – Manufacturing processes can naturally result in the production of substances other than the intended product. Such impurities can come from process contaminants, API and non-active component degradation, leachables, unreacted monomers/oligomers, and oxidized additives. We typically measure less volatile impurities with LC-MS and more volatile impurities with GC-MS, as the absence of a proper mobile phase can allow for a more accurate structural evaluation in some cases. Upon isolating your impurity, we have the capacity to perform further MS, NMR, and ICP or other specialized investigations. Some of the most common tests we perform for contaminants and adulterants are listed below:
- Mycotoxin Screens:
- B1 Fumonisin
- B2 Fumonisin
- 15-Acetyl-DON
- 3-Acetyl-DON
- Deoxynivalenol
- Nivalenol
- Cytochalasin B
- Cytochalasin D
- Cytochalasin A
- Cytochalasin E
- Cytochalasin C
- Aflatoxin G2
- Aflatoxin G1
- Aflatoxin B1
- Aflatoxin B2
- Zearalenone
- Tenuazonic Acid
- Diacetoxyscirpenol
- Moniliformin
- T2
- Ochratoxin A
- Fusarenone X
- Cytochalasin J
- Cytochalasin H
- 19,20-Epoxycytochalasin C
- 19,20-Epoxycytochalasin D
- Chaetoglobosin A
- Dihydrocytochalasin B
- Neosolaniol
- Monoacetoxyscirpenol
- HT2-Toxin
- Ochratoxin B
- Alternariol
- Alternariol ME
- Sterigmatocystin
- T2-Tetraol
- Pesticide Residue Screens
- Residual Solvent Levels (by GC/MS)
- Veterinary Drug Residues
- List of Foodborne Pathogens Tested For
Feed Safety Testing – Avazyme combines microbiology, analytical chemistry, pesticide residue testing, and stability research to ensure your feed is safe for animal consumption and labeled in compliance with FDA standards. Listed below are some of our standard feed safety tests.
- Pathogen screens – Avazyme uses both agar plate methods and qPCR to test for the following foodborne pathogens, among others: Salmonella spp., Listeria monocytogenes & Listeria spp., Bacillus cereus enterotoxin, E.coli O157:H7 & Escherichia & coliform spp., Staphylococcus aureus, yeast and mold, Vibrio cholerae & Vibrio spp., and Enterobacteriaceae.
- Environmental (facility) testing – Avazyme utilizes stability chambers and plate testing assays to provide the following environmental testing services, among others:
- Thermal Shock
- Fungus
- Life Cycle
- Shelf Life
- Temperature Cycle
- Mycotoxin Screens – Samples are extracted, diluted, and run on an LC-MS or GC-MS instrument to determine the presence and concentration of the following mycotoxins:
- B1 Fumonisin
- B2 Fumonisin
- 15-Acetyl-DON
- 3-Acetyl-DON
- Deoxynivalenol
- Nivalenol
- Cytochalasin B
- Cytochalasin D
- Cytochalasin A
- Cytochalasin E
- Cytochalasin C
- Aflatoxin G2
- Aflatoxin G1
- Aflatoxin B1
- Aflatoxin B2
- Zearalenone
- Tenuazonic Acid
- Diacetoxyscirpenol
- Moniliformin
- T2
- Ochratoxin A
- Fusarenone X
- Cytochalasin J
- Cytochalasin H
- 19,20-Epoxycytochalasin C
- 19,20-Epoxycytochalasin D
- Chaetoglobosin A
- Dihydrocytochalasin B
- Neosolaniol
- Monoacetoxyscirpenol
- HT2-Toxin
- Ochratoxin B
- Alternariol
- Alternariol ME
- Sterigmatocystin
- T2-Tetraol
- Adulterant and Contaminant Testing – Manufacturing processes can naturally result in the production of substances other than the intended product. Such impurities can come from process contaminants, API and non-active component degradation, leachables, unreacted monomers/oligomers, and oxidized additives. We typically measure less volatile impurities with LC-MS and more volatile impurities with GC-MS, as the absence of a proper mobile phase can allow for a more accurate structural evaluation in some cases. Upon isolating your impurity, we have the capacity to perform further MS, NMR, ICP, or other specialized investigations.
- Pesticide Residue Screens – Avazyme offers both a comprehensive pesticide residue screen as well as a customized USDA Organic pesticide residue screen, both of which are performed using LC-MS.
- Heavy Metal Screens – Avazyme performs the inorganic mass spectrometry necessary to detect heavy metals using an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer. We can detect the following elements in concentrations as small as parts per billion (ppb):
- Aluminum
- Arsenic
- Antimony
- Barium
- Bismuth
- Cadmium
- Cobalt
- Calcium
- Copper
- Germanium
- Gold
- Indium
- Iron
- Lead
- Lithium
- Magnesium
- Manganese
- Mercury
- Molybdenum
- Nickel
- Palladium
- Platinum
- Potassium
- Selenium
- Silver
- Sodium
- Tin
- Titanium
- Thallium
- Yttrium
- Zinc
- Zirconium