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Grains, Oilseeds, Oilseed Meals, and Corn Co-product Testing Services
Export services in today’s modern ports imply fast turnaround and accurate results on bulk commodity shipments. In recent years the increasing complexity of commercial contracts have required more rugged testing and attention to the quality of US exported grain. Eurofins Central Analytical Laboratories has over 20 years experience in the sampling and testing of grains, oilseeds, oilseed meals, and corn co-products for human or animal consumption. Our staff of seasoned professionals has won awards from organizations such as GAFTA, AOCS, and NOPA for proficiency in grain products. ECAL is a NOPA certified referee laboratory for Soybean Meal analysis. In 2008 ECAL won first place in the AOCS Soybean series.
ECAL offers a complete testing service to meet the demands of daily grain shipments from the port of New Orleans and terminals around the USA, including:
- Bulk Cargo Sampling
- Grading
- Nutritional Factors including Proximates, Amino Acids, Fatty Acids, Minerals, Vitamins, Isoflavones, Digestibility, Fibers, Caloric values
- Mycotoxins
- Pesticide residues
- Microbiological counts, Salmonella and Coliforms
- GMO testing (courtesy of Eurofins Genescan)
- Phytosanitary examinations, Weedseed examinations
- Cereal Chemistry
Other types of tests that ECAL offers in grain and grain-derived products are:
- Amino Acids
- Antioxidants (BHA, BHT, TBHQ, Ethoxyquin)
- Ash
- Bulk Density
- Falling Number
- Fat
- Fatty Acid profile
- Fiber, crude
- Free Fatty Acids
- Gluten, wet
- Gossypol (free or total)
- Grading
- Isoflavones
- Metabolizable Energy
- Minerals and Metals: Arsenic, Barium, Calcium, Cadmium, Chromium, Cobalt, Copper, Iron, Lead, Magnesium, Manganese, Molybdenum, Nickel, Phosphorus, Sulfur, Silicon, Silver, Sodium, Zinc.
- Moisture (Oven)
- Moisture (Vacuum Oven)
- Mycotoxins: Aflatoxin, Deoxynivalenol (DON or Vomitoxin), Fumonisin, Ochratoxin, T-2 Toxin, Zearalenone, Tricothecenes (by ELISA or LC-MS)
- Pepsin Digestibility
- Pesticides and PCBs
- Protein
- Sand and Silica
- Sedimentation
- Tocopherols: (alpha, beta, gamma, delta-tocopherol)
- Total Digestible Nutrients
- Urease Activity
- Weedseed Examination
* It may be necessary for the client to provide information regarding pertinent regulations of the importing country.
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