Objective
Animal feedingstuffs are a prime route to the food chain and represent an essential component in the economic and healthy production of livestock. The European compound feedingstuffs industry sources many raw materials used in the manufacture of feedingstuffs from third countries. Imported feed materials must conform to EU legislation, in addition they may be subject to quota restrictions or trade agreements. Laboratory analysis forms an integral part of legislation adopted by the Council of Ministers and European Commission and it is necessary for laboratories to demonstrate the quality of their analytical data. Continuous monitoring of quality requires the use of reference materials which, at present, does not exist for nutrients or minerals in animal feedingstuffs.
The project concerns the preparation of candidate reference materials for nutrients (crude protein, crude fibre, crude oils and fats and crude ash) and minerals (calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and copper) in compound feedingstuffs. The nutrients will be certified at relevant levels in accordance with the methods laid down in EU legislation for 'Official control of feedingstuffs'.
The project has started on 1st January 1998.
The project covers the following tasks:
- preparation of the candidate reference materials involving the collection, pretreatment, homogenization and bottling;
- homogeneity and stability studies;
- organization of an interlaboratory study for the participating laboratories;
- organisation of the certification campaign of the reference materials for their nutrient and mineral contents;
- technical and statistical evaluation of the data and writing of certification report.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences chemical sciences inorganic chemistry alkaline earth metals
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins
- agricultural sciences animal and dairy science domestic animals animal husbandry
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750 07 Uppsala
Sweden
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