Test for determining Milk Fat adulteration in the dairy Industry.
Dear all
I would like to know the parameters and methods of test that you would prescribe to determine Milk Fat adulteration in dairy Industry.
Thank you.
Gas chromatography would be my suggestion. Here's a link to an article from Fisher Scientific:
(May be biased to sell their equipment, but test parameters are given)
If you have access to rapid milk analysing equipment, eg FOSS FT-1, then they have calibration programs available that can check for adulterants. They have two types of programs, one that shows if adulteration has occurred, or 2nd a calibration program that can indicate the type of adulteration. Note that this is for milk and not specifically the fat component. Do you have concerns for adulteration of milk?