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LactoScope FT-A Liquid Dairy Products Analyzer

The LactoScope FT-A is a robust and versatile FT-IR milk analyzer capable of analyzing a wide range of animal and plant-based products, including milks, creams, whey, concentrates, ice-creams and yoghurt mixes. Innovations such as an integrated homogenizer and Dynascan interferometer let you test the most challenging dairy products, with typical accuracy under 0.8% CV for liquid milk and measuring time of 30 seconds.

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Overview

Dairy processors are routinely challenged with producing consistent and high-quality products, while also maximizing margins and creating value. To achieve this balance, participants throughout the dairy value chain, from farmers to processors, are leveraging data to create better, more predictable products.

The LactoScope FT-A is the industry’s most robust solution for analyzing a wide range of dairy products, delivering quick and accurate compositional analysis of key components including fat, protein, lactose, total solids, solids-not-fat, and freezing point depression (FPD). Leveraging Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, the AOAC and IDF compliant Lactoscope FT-A utilizes modern optics, an integrated homogenizer, and intuitive yet powerful software to deliver results in as little as 30 seconds.

Used in a variety of applications, including milk collection points to facilitate fair payment, plant receival stations to ensure composition and prevent costly non-conforming milk from entering the plant’s storage tanks, or at processing and load-out to confirm consistency and brand compliance, the FT-A’s versatility delivers a wide range of benefits from several key features:

  • The FT-A's integrated homogenizer and sample pre-heater allow for the standardization of temperature and particle size of fat globules before measurement for optimal accuracy, repeatability and performance.
  • Analyze a wide range of products on the same instrument with unmatched ease and accuracy, regardless of sample viscosity, including animal and plant-based milks, creams up to 55% fat, whey, concentrates, ice-creams and yoghurt mixes, with no additional user effort or sample preparation.
  • Automatic clean cycles and zeros maintain the sample pumping unit and the measuring cell in optimal conditions, therefore improving the overall reliability and accuracy of the instrument.
  • Patented Dynascan Interferometer features a fixed-mirror-pair design that doesn’t require dynamic alignment to compensate for errors.
  • OpticsGuard technology features a unique humidity shield design that protects the instrument from environmental effects, increasing up-time, reducing costs and allowing it to be used in more challenging conditions like dairy processing plants.
  • A wide-range of calibrations are included in the purchase of an FT-A, including robust packages for raw, standardized and processed milks, whey, and cream.
  • Intuitive and powerful Windows-based Results Plus software enables easy operation of the instrument, and simplified workflows require little effort or cost to train users for instrument operation.
  • Remote instrument configuration and monitoring is available with the NetPlus cloud solution, with potential to easily set up a master/satellite network for users with multiple LactoScope instruments.

Specifications

Product Specifications
  • Repeatability (typical): CV≤ 0.25%
  • Accuracy (typical): CV≤ 1% (on cow milk bulk tank samples)
  • Typical sample intake volume: 10 ml
  • Sample intake temperature: 4°C-42 °C (35.5 °F - 107.5 °F)
  • Power supply: 100-120 V, 60 Hz; 220-240 V, 50 Hz; 400 VA
  • Standards & approvals: EMC Directive 2014/30/EU; Low Voltage Directive: 2014/35/EU; IDF 141/ISO 9622 compliant; AOAC 972.16 compliant
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Application Brief

Analysis of Plant-Based Milk Using the Lactoscope

Plant-based milks are becoming increasingly popular with consumers as they seek healthier, non-animal-based options of milk protein. Unlike animal sourced milk, in plant-based milk production there are frequent changes between crop years and in crop sources. For example, the same plant grown in diff ...

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Identifying Quality Parameters in Milk Using the LactoScope FT-A

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One-step testing: Why homogenization is key for quality control in dairy

Fast and effective quality control in the dairy processing industry is key, particularly with more challenging high viscous products.

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Mitigating Matrix Effects in the Analysis of Milk by FTIR Spectroscopy

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Comprehensive Solutions for Dairy Analysis

Today’s dairy farmers, processors, and inspectors work diligently to develop and deliver safe, high-quality, consistent products – but at the same time, ingredient quality and safety, market dynamics, and employee skill levels are in constant flux. That’s why it’s more important than ever to have re ...

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LactoScope FTIR Dairy Analyzers Brochure

Milk processors and dairies across the globe are challenged every day with ensuring the consistency of incoming raw materials and making fair payment to suppliers. Quick and accurate compositional analysis of key components of raw milk and other dairy products is of paramount importance in these ind ...

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Ebook

Better Dairy: A Look at Ensuring Quality in Dairy Foods

With the global dairy industry projected to be worth 1032.7 billion US dollars by 2024, it’s never been more important to carry out efficient analysis of dairy products to ensure quality and safety is maintained. In this eBook, developed with Dairy Foods, PerkinElmer’s food safety and quality expert ...

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Mastering Calibrations for Liquid Dairy Analysis: From Basics to Best Practices

For dairy processors, reliability and consistency of testing results has become imperative for securing product quality, regulatory compliance, and operational success. Achieving accurate and dependable testing outcomes over time can become a real challe

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