Baer
and Associates, LLC
Professional Animal Nutritionists
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Professional Animal Nutritionists
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Feed Quality Checks You spend a significant portion of your resources on commercial feeds and you deserve quality. For decades, Baer and Associates has served a consumer protection role of sorts, helping our clients determine the quality of their feeds to make sure they are receiving what they pay for with limited budgets. We've taken some of the information we've collected on the quality of commercial products and summarized it below (Table 1). Feed manufacturers are required to guarantee levels of only very few nutrients. Some manufactures voluntarily guarantee additional nutrients. In the table, nutrient concentrations that deviate significantly from the manufacturer's label guarantee are in red. Nutrient concentrations or ratios that are inappropriate for the species are in green.
When we identify foods that do not meet the guarantee on the manufacturer's product label, we work on behalf of our client with the manufacturers to correct these problems. In many cases, manufacturers are unaware of the problem. They act promptly to correct any deficiencies and welcome our feedback to ensure quality of the feeds they provide to you. Unfortunately, some manufacturers do not take quality control seriously. If problems persist, we work to identify suitable feed manufacturers who can produce quality products. How Thoroughly Do We Test Before Making Judgments on Quality? When we check the quality of feeds, we do not rely on only one laboratory analysis. When a value deviates from a manufacturer's guarantee, we double and sometimes triple check with several laboratories to validate the numbers. The need for dependable analytical methods has resulted in scientists, and professionals in industry and government developing, validating, and adopting standard assays for feed and food analyses, which allows us to make direct comparisons. In addition, to ensure that our results are accepted as true and meaningful, and that the analytical methods are trusted, we consider accuracy, sensitivity and precision of the methods used in our analyses. It is also important that the number of samples we test provides data that are both representative and statistically significant. Testing too few samples may not allow for natural variation between lots or products and too many samples may unnecessarily raise costs for your organization. Although collecting and checking the quality of samples may seem relatively benign, a prime concern is that no bias be introduced in the selection and testing of samples. For this reason it is often recommended by federal and state government officials that an independent party, like Baer and Associates, be responsible for feed and food sample collection and analysis. You deserve the best and we help make sure you receive it! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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