Profiling and Monitoring of Fatty Acid Characteristics of Milk Fat by Routine Mid-IR Milk Analysis

AOAC’s Annual Meeting in Florida, USA, offers 27 scientific sessions, 11 poster sessions, and 4 training courses to meet a variety of analytical needs. AOAC brings science-based research from top scientists in the world; technical information about changes and advances in methodology; and access to techniques, applications and method development studies.

One of the scientific sessions during AOAC’s Annual meeting is called the Wiley Award Symposium. In close cooperation with Dr. Barbano, professor of Food Science and Director of the Northeast dairy Foods Research Center at Cornell University New York, Delta Instruments will present its scientific insights in the field of profiling and monitoring fatty acid characteristics of milk fat by routine Mid-IR Milk Analysis.

Central topic of this specific symposium is testing for payment, quality, and adulteration; is it all hidden in the Mid-IR Spectra? The presentations will provide an example of how method validation, proficiency testing, and preparation of reference materials has been utilized in the dairy industry over the past 25 years to improve the accuracy of milk payment testing, dairy cattle feeding management and genetic selection, and to control of dairy product composition. In addition, cutting edge applications of mid-infrared milk analysis to predict fatty acid composition of milk and to rapidly screen milk for adulterants using chemometric analysis of mid-infrared spectra will be addressed.