HE73 Moisture Analyzer

Achieving accurate moisture analysis is crucial for maintaining product quality, shelf life, and performance across various industries.

This SelectScience guide provides expert insights to mastering moisture analysis, highlighting the advantages of halogen moisture analyzers over traditional drying oven methods. It offers practical tips into ensuring reliable results through routine verification, effective cleaning techniques, and modernized digital record-keeping. Additionally, it explores moisture control strategies for food safety, manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals, emphasizing the importance of routine performance testing with advanced tools like SmartCal™.

Download your free copy to see how implementing these best practices can optimize your processes, enhance data accuracy, and improve overall product reliability.

Resource details:

• Document type: SelectScience guide
• Page count: 5
• Read time: 8 mins
• Edition: 1st

Accurate moisture content analysis is essential for industries like food, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals to enhance product quality and profitability. Discover how Mettler Toledo halogen moisture analyzers offer fast, reliable measurements and advanced data-handling solutions, from manual transcription to automated processes, reducing errors and improving efficiency.

Properly cleaning your moisture analyzer is crucial for maintaining accurate measurements, extending the instrument's lifespan, enhancing user safety, and minimizing the risk of cross-contamination. Explore effective cleaning methods and agents, find step-by-step instructions for cleaning your moisture analyzer, and discover five key solutions for maintaining optimal cleanliness.

Discover how to optimize moisture analysis with halogen moisture analyzers. Explore ready-to-use methods for various samples, and step-by-step instructions for method development, ensuring accurate, repeatable results comparable to the drying oven procedure.

Moisture analysis plays a vital role in all areas of the food industry, from goods-in inspections, through quality control, production, and storage, to the development of new products. Explore this detailed guide on precise moisture content determination in food products using advanced thermogravimetric techniques. It highlights the advantages of Mettler Toledo Halogen Moisture Analyzers, including rapid and reliable measurements. Covering diverse samples like dairy, plant-based foods, and processed products, the guide ensures quality control and consistent results across the food industry.

Moisture affects the quality, shelf-life and usability of many products, including pharmaceutical substances, plastics and foodstuffs. Therefore, monitoring and determination of the moisture content in samples is an important application. Typically, loss on drying (LOD) using a drying oven is used as reference method, but this can be slow with many manual steps. Faster determination of moisture content can be achieved with new methods, such halogen moisture analyzers (HMA), which are easy to use and give a direct result in a fraction of the time. The challenge has been how to validate the HMA method and prove that the results are comparable with the drying oven method.

Explore a detailed comparison between the drying oven and halogen moisture analyzer (HMA) methods for moisture content determination. With practical guides, real-world examples, and expert insights, this resource is essential for optimizing moisture analysis in industries such as pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and food production.

This guide provides helpful insights into essential measurement techniques such as weighing, pH measurement, pipetting and more, to help you improve the accuracy and efficiency of your day-to-day measurement tasks.

When cereal grains, sweetener, and fats are combined to form cookies, the final product can be a joy to behold. But too much or too little moisture can turn a smile into a frown – or even a lawsuit. Here’s how the switch to halogen moisture analysis is helping a baked-goods giant ensure customer satisfaction, shelf-life and safety.

Moisture analysis plays a vital role in all areas of the food industry, from goods-in inspections, through quality control, production and storage, to the development of new products. In nearly all cases, the prepared ingredients have an optimum moisture content, providing the best possible taste, consistency, appearance and shelf-life. Moisture determination, therefore, ensures consistent product quality. This guide highlights a number of moisture analysis methods, from baking powder to yoghurt.

This white paper guides the analyst through the process of choosing between oven drying and fast halogen moisture analysis. It explains the key decision criteria surrounding the choice of method and provides practical guidance on how to demonstrate that the two different methods (drying oven and halogen moisture analyzer) for establishing the moisture content of a sample deliver comparable results. In addition, two alternative and acceptable comparison approaches are outlined here: the first approach is based on specific process requirements (tolerances), and the second approach is based on statistical analysis of the data obtained.

May 6, 2025 at 14:00 BST / 15:00 CEST / 09:00 EDT / 06:00 PDT

Moisture content is a critical factor that influences various aspects of a product, including its processability, shelf life, usability, and overall quality. This makes it an important factor to monitor accurately otherwise it can lead to inconsistencies in performance and even non-compliance with industry standards.

Learn how to effectively measure moisture content of your products in this informative webinar with Andrea Mühleis from METTLER TOLEDO. She will share insights to understand moisture determination and top tips to achieve accurate and reliable moisture results.

She will also highlight the differences between halogen heating technology and drying oven technology as well as how to correctly prepare samples for analysis to provide you with valuable strategies to optimize your moisture determination.

Key learning objectives:

• Explore the different methods used for moisture analysis
• Learn techniques for sample preparation in moisture analysis
• Discover the method development to match results from the drying oven
• Uncover what routine testing can be performed for moisture analyzers

Who should attend?

• Quality control professionals, laboratory technicians, analysts, and researchers in industries including food, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals, who require accurate moisture analysis for product quality and development.
• Production managers and academic researchers who need to understand moisture control techniques for manufacturing consistency and educational purposes.

Certificate of attendance
If you attend the live webinar, you will automatically receive a certificate of attendance, including a learning outcomes summary, for continuing education purposes.

If you view the on-demand webinar, you can request a certificate of attendance by emailing editor@selectscience.net.

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