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Intertek tests and inspects a wide range of edible oils, vegetable oils and animal fats and oils. Products tested include tallow, palm oil, oilseed, cooking oils, groundnut oils, mustard oil, safflower oil, sesamum oil, soya oil, sunflower oil, other vegetable oils and more. Submitted samples and cargo inspection quality testing services are availble for oils and fats shipments on a global basis.
Fats and Oils Tests and Test Methods include:
Acetyl & Hydroxyl Value, Saponification
Acid Value, Titration
Acetone Insoluble Matter, Gravimetric
Active Oxygen Method (AOM), Titration 8 hrs
Active Oxygen Method (AOM), 20, 60, 80 hrs +
Aldehyde Profiles, GC/MS
Aliphatic Alcohols, GC/FID
Anisidine Value, AOCS
Antioxidants (BHA, BHT etc), HPLC
Appearance, Visual
Ash, AOCS/ISO
Aflatoxin, Total, Flourometric, Aflatoxin, (B1, B1, G1, G2), T.L.C
Aldehyde Profile, GC/MS
Aliphatic Alcohols, GC/MS
Alcohols, GC/MS
Bleaching Test, Gardner Smith
Boemer Number, Melting Point
Break Test, Gravimetric
Chemical Comtaminants (eg. Benzene, Styrene, Phenols), HPLC
Chlorophyl, AOCS, FOSFA
Cloud Point, AOCS
Cold Test, AOCS
Color Gardner, FAC, AOCS
Color, Lovibond (raw), AOCS
Color Bleach, Gardner Smith
Color refined & bleached, AOCS
Copper, AA Flame / GFAA
Confirmation of Components detected by other methods, GC/MS
Congeal Point, AOCS
Dioxins, GC/MS
Erucic Acid, AOCS/ISO/GC
Esters, GC
Extractable Organics, GC/MS
Fat Stability, See Active Oxygen Method
Fatty Acid, Total & Oxidized, Saponification
Fatty Acid Composition, AOCS/ISO/(GC FID)
(including Transfat), LC/MS
Fatty Alcohol Profile, GC/FID
Flash Point, AOCS/FOSFA
Flavor Profiles, GC/MS
Fragrance Profiles, GC/MS
Free Fatty Acids, AOCS/ISO (Titration)
Fry Study, Frying Study, Color, Total Polars, Aldehydes, PV, FFA, FAP
Glycerine, Titration
Glycerin and Glycols, HPLC
Gossypol (in cotton seed oil), HPLC
Halphen Test, AOCS
Hexane Residues, GC Headspace
Hydrocarbon Profile, GC FID
Hydroxyl & Acetyl Value, AOCS
Insoluble Impurities, AOCS/ISO
Iodine Value, AOCS/ISO (WIJS)
Iron, AA/GFAA
Kries Test, Rancidity, Index B.S.
Melting Point (Capillary), AOCS/ISO
Melting Point, Wiley, AOCS
Melting Point, Slip, AOCS/ISO
Metals, Trace, Heavy metals, AA/GFAA
Moisture and Volatiles, Oven / Hotplate
Moisture by Karl Fisher, AOCS/ISO
Moisture by Distillation, AOCS/ISO
Mercury, AA-Cold Vapor
Monoglycerides, Diglycerides & Triglycerides, GC/FID
MTBE, GC/FID
Mucilage, Spectro
Neutral Oil & Loss, AOCS
Nitrogen, KJELDHAL
Odor, Smell
Oleic Acid, AOCS/ISO (GC-FID)
Organic Acid Profile, HPLC
PH, ITS/AOCS/ISO
Phthalates, HPLC
Polar Compound, GC
Peroxide Value, AOCS/ISO
Phosphorous, Spectro
Pesticides, Organochlorine, GC
Pesticides, Organophosphorous, GC
Pesticides PCBS, GC
Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons, GC/MS
Polyethylene, AOCS/ISO
Polysorbates, HPLC
Priority Polluants, GC/MS
Qualitative Test for Fish Oils, AOCS
Radioactivity, ITS
Rancidity Index (Kries Test), B.S.
Rate of Filtration, ITS
Refining Loss, AOCS
Refractive Index, AOCS/ASTM
Saponification Value, AOCS/ISO
Saponification Color, AOCS
Saponofication matter, total, Calculated from MIU
Smoke Point, AOCS/BS
Sorbic and Benzoic Acids, HPLC
Soap Content, FOSFA
Soap in Oil, AOCS
Solubility in Alchocol, Alcohol/Castor oil Mix
Specific Gravity/Mass per volume, AOCS/ISO
Sulphur, ASTM
Squalene, HPLC
Specific Extinction, UV/Visible Spec.
Sterols, GC/FID
Stigmadienes, GC/FID
Solid Fat Content, AOCS/ISO
Solid Fat Index, AOCS
Trace Element, (AA-GFAA
Thermal Heating Fluids (THF, Dowtherm), HPLC
Titer, AOCS/ISO
Triglycerides Profile, HPLC
(Plus mono & Diglycerides), HPLC
Tocopherol (plus tocotrienols), HPLC
Trans Isomers, GC
Thiocyangen Value, AOCS
Unsaponifiable matter, AOCS/ISO
Unsaponifiable profile, GC/MS
Water by distillation, AOCS/ISO
Waxes, GC/FID
Contact us to see how Intertek can help your organization with Edible Fats and Oils Testing.
