Department of Animal Sciences and Aquatic Ecology

LANUPRO services

Analyses and customized experiments for feed, additives, animal-source foods and digestive physiology

Services Lanupro

 

Please contact us for a tailored analysis plan.

  

 

Pricelist

 

Prices include overhead and report, VAT is excluded.

Samples are analysed in duplicate.

The report will include results per treatment, without statistical processing.

Additional processing and consulting services are available at an extra cost.

 

In vitro digestion & in vivo animal trials 

  • Product-testing
  • Animal performance and meat quality
  • Gut health evaluation
  • Rumen bypass products
  • Enteric methane mitigation
  • Toxins and detoxifiers
  • Meat and alternative proteins digestion
  • EFSA registration applications

Custom-made experiments – please contact us

 

Feed & additives

Composition

  • Moisture – Gravimetrical
  • Crude ash – Gravimetrical
  • Crude fiber -  Ancom
  • Crude protein – Kjeldahl distillation
  • Crude fat – Soxlet
  • Gross energy – Bomb calorimeter
  • Fatty Acids (C10-C24) – GC
  • Short, medium & branched chain fatty acids (C2-C12) – GC
  • NDF (Neutral Detergent Fiber) - Ancom
  • ADF (Acid Detergent Fiber) - Ancom
  • ADL (Acid Detergent Lignin) - Ancom
  • ADIA (Acid Detergent Insoluble Ash) - Ancom
  • Freeze-drying – Lyophilizator
  • Lactate - Spectrofotometer
  • Ammonia – Spectrofotometer

Oxidative status

  • POV (Peroxide Value) - Titration
  • ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) - Fluorometer
  • TBARS (thiobarbituric reactive species) – Spectrophotometer

 

Gastrointestinal samples

rumen fluid, feces, other in vitro & in vivo digesta

Composition & Digestibility

  • Moisture – Gravimetrical
  • Crude ash – Gravimetrical
  • Crude fiber -  Ancom
  • Crude protein – Kjeldahl distillation
  • Crude fat – Soxlet
  • Gross energy – Bomb calorimeter
  • Fatty Acids (C10-C24) – GC
  • Short, medium & branched chain fatty acids (C2-C12) – GC
  • NDF (Neutral Detergent Fiber) - Ancom
  • ADF (Acid Detergent Fiber) - Ancom
  • ADL (Acid Detergent Lignin) - Ancom
  • ADIA (Acid Detergent Insoluble Ash) - Ancom
  • Phenol, indol and p-cresol – SPME-HS-GC-MS semiquantative
  • Freeze-drying - Lyophilizator
  • Lactate - Spectrofotometer
  • Ammonia - Spectrofotometer
  • Celite – Gravimetrical
  • Gas production (methane, CO2, H2, H2S) – MicroGC

Oxidative status

  • Protein carbonyl compounds - Spectrophotometer

Animal-source foods

meat, milk, eggs 

Composition

  • Carbohydrates - spectrophotometer
  • Crude ash – gravimetrical
  • Crude protein – Kjeldahl distillation
  • Crude fat – Soxlet
  • Gross energy – Bomb calorimeter
  • Fatty Acids (C10-C24) – GC
  • Short, medium & branched chain fatty acids (C2-C12) – GC
  • Moisture – gravimetrical
  • Collagen (insoluble&soluble) - spectrophotometer
  • Salt – spectrophotometer
  • Nitrite - spectrophotometer
  • Freeze-drying - Lyophilizator
  • Lactate - Spectrofotometer
  • Ammonia – Spectrofotometer
  • Heme-iron - Spectrophotometer

 

Physical characteristics (meat)

  • Colour – Konica Minolta
  • pH– Knick Portamess
  • Drip Loss - EZ containers
  • Cooking Loss - Gravimetrical
  • Shear force – Warner-Bratzler Texturometer
  • Texture - Texturometer
  • Non-Protein nitrogen - Spectrophotometer
  • Sarcomere Length – Laser diffraction

  

Oxidative status

  • POV (Peroxide Value) - Titration
  • MDA (malondialdehyde) - Spectrophotometer
  • TBARS by distillation (thiobarbituric reactive species) – Spectrophotometer
  • ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) - Fluorometer
  • Aldehydes such as Hexanal, 4-hydroxynonenal,… – HPLC
  • Colour stability by chilled illuminated display
  • Dipeptides (carnosine and anserine) - HPLC
  • Vitamin E - HPLC
  • GSH-Px (Glutathione Peroxidase) - Tecan
  • SOD (Superoxide Dismutase) - Tecan
  • Catalase - Tecan
  • Protein carbonyl compounds - Spectrophotometer

Other biological samples  

blood, gut tissue, liver, ...

Composition

  • Crude ash – Gravimetrical
  • Crude protein – Kjeldahl distillation
  • Crude fat – Soxhlet
  • Fatty Acids (C10-C24) – GC
  • Short, medium & branched chain fatty acids (C2-C12) – GC
  • Moisture – Gravimetrical
  • Freeze-drying - Lyophilizator

 

Oxidative status

  • GSH-Px (Glutathione Peroxidase) - Tecan
  • SOD (Superoxide Dismutase) - Tecan
  • Catalase - Tecan
  • MDA (malondialdehyde) - Spectrophotometer
  • FRAP (Ferric Reducing Antioxidant Power) – Spectrophotometer
  • ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) - Fluorometer
  • Vitamin E – HPLC
  • Protein carbonyl compounds - Spectrophotometer

 

Histology (gut)

  • Histomorphology (villus height & crypt depth, goblet cells density)
  • Immunohistochemistry

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