Feed mainly refers to the food for animals raised in agriculture or ranching. Feed (Feed) includes more than ten varieties of feed ingredients such as soybeans, soybean meal, corn, fish meal, amino acids, miscellaneous meal, additives, whey powder, grease, meat and bone meal, grains, sweet sorghum, etc. Feed safety is an important aspect of animal food. In recent years, some regions in Europe, serious incidents related to feed safety, such as "mad cow disease", "two British" and other events, feed safety has become a hot spot of concern to the general public.
Common feed testing projects.
(1) feed physical and chemical properties testing: sensory (appearance and odor), particle size, moisture, ash, pH, mixing uniformity, crude fat, crude fiber, salt, crude protein, vitamins, trace elements content, etc.
(2) feed safety testing: water-soluble chlorides, volatile salt nitrogen, cyanide, nitrite, melamine, heavy metal residues, pesticide residues, total bacterial count, coliform count, mold count, bacterium count, etc.