Pre-Calibrations
Available pre-calibrated applications
Experience in food and feed analysis
More than 25 years experience in food and feed analysis has found its apex in the NIRFlex N-500 and its pre-calibrations for nutritional analysis.
NIR spectroscopy is widely used for determination of constituents in Food&Feed analysis. The advantages of NIR measurements are obvious; it is a rapid, inexpensive, non-destructive and multi-parametric method. On the other hand, NIR is an indirect method that requires calibration. The cost of developing calibrations for complex products is substantial.
Nevertheless, to obtain a useful and reliable calibration is not a simple task. It is usually a multi-step procedure. BUCHI is therefore offering a wide range of different pre-calibrated applications (e.g. meat, cheese, soybean products, meat, sausages, chicken, ice cream, rice, cheese, Soybean meal Soybean, Wheat flour, Feed ingredients, Alfalfa, Hard wheat, Lucerne meal ...) to be used with NIRFlex N-500.
Six advantages of NIR pre-calibration
- Very low customer maintenance required
- No specialist know-how in Chemometric software necessary
- Cost effective plug & play solution
- Simple routine production analysis
- Reference chemistry is performed with official methods
- Calibrations available with a description of nearly a decade of seasonal, geographical and product variation
Commercial aspects of NIR spectroscopy
Busy laboratories responsible for quality control in animal feed production need all the resources that they can get.
Working with NIR and pre-calibrated application sets is saving the laboratory a huge amount of time and money.
Feed and Feed ingredients are therefore very important segments in the calibration portfolio. With only 160 samples per year, NIR spectroscopy offers financial benefits in comparison to conventional analysis.
Applications and Solutions for the Food, Feed and Agri-food Industries
For demanding applications such as fat, pH, protein, water, salt, or fiber: the new FT-NIR spectrometer NIRFlex N-500 provides the analytical solution for simultaneous analysis of food, feed and agri-food products in a matter of a few seconds.
BUCHI has developed and certified ready-to-use calibrations quantitative applications for a range of products such as meat / sausage, feed and feed ingredients, dairy products, cereal/grains, and many more. Based on the high sample variance obtained through the utilization of samples originating in different countries and regions around the world, the Pre-calibrated Applications have the robustness and analytical performance needed to meet analytical goals.
Users can increase specificity by modifying or expanding the Pre-Calibrations or by developing their own calibrations using the easy to use NIRCal Software. There are no limitations – customers have the full flexibility to build, develop, optimize their own calibrations or utilize Calibration Development Programs from the BUCHI support team.
Spectra transfer from existing NIR instruments is possible at any time and reduces the effort and time needed for calibration development and facilitates a successful and easy NIR implementation.