Pet food analysis

In today’s pet food industry, maintaining high standards for quality, nutritional balance, and safety is critical. As pet owners increasingly prioritize their pets' well-being, manufacturers are held to rigorous standards to deliver safe, nutritious, and consistent products. The complex process of pet food production involves precise ingredient selection, consistent formulation, and strict quality control measures to ensure that every batch meets both nutritional needs and regulatory requirements.

At Malvern Panalytical, we understand the importance of accuracy and reliability in pet food analysis. Our advanced instrumentation — including the Mastersizer, Insitec, Epsilon Range, Aeris Range, and Zetasizer — provides pet food manufacturers with the tools needed to analyze particle size, elemental composition, ingredient stability, and more. By delivering high-resolution insights into pet food ingredients and final products, our instruments help manufacturers achieve consistency, enhance product quality, and ensure compliance with industry standards.

Whether it’s monitoring the distribution of nutrients, assessing the quality of innovative ingredients like cultivated meat, or ensuring that formulations remain safe and effective, Malvern Panalytical’s solutions are here to support every step of the analysis process. With our cutting-edge technology, pet food producers can confidently deliver products that meet the highest standards for safety, nutrition, and quality.

Malvern Panalytical instruments

Mastersizer range

The Mastersizer 3000+ range is ideal for analyzing particle size distribution in pet food powders and granules, which is critical for achieving the desired texture, digestibility, and flavor consistency.

Applications in Pet Food Analysis

  • Enhanced Nutritional Consistency: By optimizing particle size, the Mastersizer 3000+ ensures consistency in nutritional quality and ingredient dispersion.
  • Improved Texture and Digestibility: Ensures optimal particle size for better digestibility and flavor, which is essential for pet preference and health.
  • Diverse Product Applications: Supports production across various pet food types, such as kibble, treats, and wet food additives, by providing uniform particle distribution.

Applications in Cultivated Meat

  • Cell Size Distribution: The Mastersizer 3000+ helps monitor the particle size of cells or cell clusters in cultivated meat, ensuring textural consistency and quality.
  • Optimized Nutritional Profile: Ensures that cultivated meat has the right structural qualities to meet nutritional requirements for pet food applications.
Insitec range

Insitec range

Robust, reliable, real-time particle sizing

Insitec range

The Insitec range offers continuous, real-time, on-line particle size monitoring during production, enabling immediate adjustments to particle size to maintain quality standards in pet food.

Applications

  • Continuous Monitoring: Ideal for real-time pet food nutritional analysis during processes like mixing or milling, essential for consistent quality.
  • Batch Consistency: Ensures ingredient consistency across batches by tracking particle size distribution in real time.
  • Reduced Downtime and Waste: Quickly identifies out-of-spec batches, minimizing material waste and downtime by allowing for immediate adjustments.
Epsilon range

Epsilon range

Fast and accurate at- and on-line elemental analysis

Epsilon range 

The Epsilon range uses X-ray fluorescence (XRF) technology to provide fast, accurate pet food nutritional analysis by measuring essential minerals and trace elements.

Applications

  • Mineral and Nutrient Profiling: Measures critical elements such as calcium, phosphorus, sodium, and trace minerals for balanced pet food formulations.
  • Contaminant Detection: Detects potential contaminants like heavy metals, safeguarding product safety.
  • Formulation Support: Assists in creating nutritionally balanced diets by providing data on elemental content, supporting pet food analysis for regulatory compliance.
Aeris

Aeris

The future is compact

Aeris range

The Aeris XRD instrument is essential for identifying and quantifying different crystalline phases within pet food ingredients, contributing to ingredient quality and product stability.

Applications

  • Protein and Additive Identification: Analyzes protein structures, additives, and fillers for a comprehensive pet food nutritional analysis.
  • Ingredient Stability: Ensures product stability and uniformity by examining the crystalline phases of ingredients, which supports consistent quality.
  • Regulatory Compliance: Verifies the presence and proper dispersion of certain additives or preservatives, helping manufacturers comply with industry regulations.

Zetasizer Advance range

The Zetasizer Advance provides detailed particle size and zeta potential measurements, essential for understanding ingredient stability and dispersion, critical for pet food formulations.

Applications in Pet Food Analysis

  • Ingredient Stability: Measures zeta potential to assess stability and prevent ingredient aggregation in pet food formulations.
  • Consistency in Emulsions and Mixtures: Supports formulation consistency by ensuring stable emulsions and uniform distribution of ingredients.

Applications in Cultivated Meat

  • Cell Dispersion and Stability: The Zetasizer Advance analyzes zeta potential of cell cultures to assess the stability and dispersion of cells, crucial for texture and consistency in cultivated meat.
  • Optimized Growth Conditions: By understanding cell stability, manufacturers can optimize growth conditions, critical for producing high-quality cultivated meat for pet food applications.

Partner with Malvern Panalytical for comprehensive pet food analysis

At Malvern Panalytical, we understand the critical role that precise and reliable pet food analysis plays in ensuring the quality and safety of pet food products. Our advanced instruments are designed to meet the specific needs of pet food manufacturers, providing comprehensive solutions that enhance pet food nutritional analysis and support regulatory compliance.

Whether you're looking to improve the texture and digestibility of your products, ensure nutritional balance, or analyze innovative ingredients like cultivated meat, our team is here to help. We offer tailored solutions that align with your unique requirements, helping you optimize your production processes and deliver top-quality pet food.

To learn more about how Malvern Panalytical’s instruments can transform your pet food analysis lab, contact us today. Our experts are ready to assist you with customized solutions that enhance the quality and consistency of your pet food products, ensuring they meet the highest standards in the industry. Partner with Malvern Panalytical and take your pet food analysis to the next level.