Project

Milk fatty acids to support ration formulation and monitoring of metabolic disorders of dairy cattle: development of routine analyzes.

Code
179V2307
Duration
01 January 2008 → 30 June 2010
Funding
Regional and community funding: IWT/VLAIO
Research disciplines
  • Agricultural and food sciences
    • Agricultural animal nutrition
Keywords
milk fatty acid
 
Project description

The current project aims at evaluating different spectrophotometric methods for the quantitative analysis of specific fatty acids, which proved important in the prediction and classification models, which were developed within the framework of implemented and ongoing research. Spectrophotometric techniques may show the most potential for this purpose, since they do not require derivatization of fatty acids to fatty acid methyl esters and time consuming GC analysis and chromatograminterpretatie. Spectrophotometric analysis does not continue longer than a few seconds to minutes. As for the sample preparation is usually recommended for a separation of the fat fraction.