LABORATORY NEWS: New melamine screening method

Delta instruments has developed a screening method for its FTIR instruments to detect melamine in raw milk. Successful field tests have been carried out to check on possible adulterated raw milk.

The screening method uses Delta instruments NPN-CU (Non Protein Nitrogen-Calculated Urea) approach and therefore it has benn given the parameter name NPN-Calculated Melamine (NPN-CM).

Delyta Instruments CombiScope FTIR 400 precision analyzer will be capable of measuring added melamine with this new screening method.

Designed to meet the analysis needs of dairy herd improvement and payment laboratories, the CombiScope FTIR 400 analyses raw milk for ft, protein, lactose, total solids non-fat as well as somatic cell count.