Fat Analysis: Expanded Instrument Production

Applied Separations, Inc., Allentown, PA has announced it has expanded production of its analytical supercritical fluid extraction instruments.

Several companies have discontinued their supercritical instrument line (Hewlett Packard (Agilent), Suprex and more recently ISCO) and are no longer offering parts and tech support. Many snack food company laboratories have established protocols for fat analysis based on supercritical carbon dioxide. There has been a dilemma for these labs to either find a reliable, high quality SFE instrument manufacturer or to abandon their current procedure and undertake the costly, time-consuming process of establishing a new procedure.

Applied Separations, Inc. offers two instruments for the supercritical CO₂ extraction of fat from snack foods. The Spe-ed SFE-2 and the Spe-ed SFE-4 extract fat from the snack food sample for gravimetric determination. Depending on the system, 16 samples can be processed in one hour. Current gravimetric fat determination protocols readily run on these instruments.