Salamon & Seaber carries out a wide range of analyses for testing the commodities used in the manufacture of compound animal feeding stuffs. These include Soya Bean Meal, Palm Kernel Extraction, Sunflower Seed Extraction, Rapeseed Extraction and cereal by-products.

Salamon and Seaber are approved Analysts, and provide analysis using methods listed in GAFTA Form 130 for contractual purposes.

As an approved analyst, Salamon and Seaber provides independent assurance to companies operating in the international grain and feed trade.

As a GAFTA Approved Analyst we operate in accordance withGAFTA rules, testing the quality and condition of goods. To maintain approval an analyst participates in GAFTA ring testing schemes.

Other standard methods of analysis such as those of ISO AOCS and AOAC are also used to check or verify product quality.

The major analytical methods used in the analysis of these commodities are included in our "UKAS Scope of accreditation".

We also carry out the following analysis

• Determination of Metabolisable Energy Values (Ruminants & Poultry)
• Protein Dispersability Index
• Protein Dispersible in Potassium Hydroxide
• Total Volatile Nitrogen (TVN)
• Trace Elements: Magnesium (Mg), Iron (Fe), Copper (Cu), Manganese (Mn), Iodine (I), etc.

We are able to determine the following undesirable substances as listed in The Feeding Stuffs (England) Regulations 2005, (S.I. 2005 No. 3281), and amendments

• Castor seed / caster seed husks
• Ergot
• Ethoxyquin
• Free Gossypol
• Glucosinolates
• Hydrocyanic Acid (HCN)
• Shell in Palm Kernel
• Volatile mustard oil
• Weed seed and undesirable plant seed residues

Other undesirable substances are sub-contracted to our trusted, UKAS accredited partner laboratories.

• Theobromine
• Dioxins & Dioxin like PCB's
• Fluorine (F)
• Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO)
• Heavy Metals
• Mycotoxins
• Pesticides
• Radioactivity