LactoScope^™ FT-A Liquid Dairy Products Analyzer

Dairy processors are routinely challenged with producing consistent and high-quality products, while also maximizing margins and creating value. To achieve this balance, participants throughout the dairy value chain, from farmers to processors, are leveraging data to create better, more predictable products.

The LactoScope FT-A is the industry’s most robust solution for analyzing a wide range of dairy products, delivering quick and accurate compositional analysis of key components including fat, protein, lactose, total solids, solids-not-fat, and freezing point depression (FPD). Leveraging Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, the AOAC and IDF compliant Lactoscope FT-A utilizes modern optics, an integrated homogenizer, and intuitive yet powerful software to deliver results in as little as 30 seconds.

Used in a variety of applications, including milk collection points to facilitate fair payment, plant receival stations to ensure composition and prevent costly non-conforming milk from entering the plant’s storage tanks, or at processing and load-out to confirm consistency and brand compliance, the FT-A’s versatility delivers a wide range of benefits from several key features:

• The FT-A's integrated homogenizer and sample pre-heater allow for the standardization of temperature and particle size of fat globules before measurement for optimal accuracy, repeatability and performance.
• Analyze a wide range of products on the same instrument with unmatched ease and accuracy, regardless of sample viscosity, including animal and plant-based milks, creams up to 55% fat, whey, concentrates, ice-creams and yoghurt mixes, with no additional user effort or sample preparation.
• Automatic clean cycles and zeros maintain the sample pumping unit and the measuring cell in optimal conditions, therefore improving the overall reliability and accuracy of the instrument.
• Patented Dynascan Interferometer features a fixed-mirror-pair design that doesn’t require dynamic alignment to compensate for errors.
• OpticsGuard^™ technology features a unique humidity shield design that protects the instrument from environmental effects, increasing up-time, reducing costs and allowing it to be used in more challenging conditions like dairy processing plants.
• A wide-range of calibrations are included in the purchase of an FT-A, including robust packages for raw, standardized and processed milks, whey, and cream.
• Intuitive and powerful Windows-based Results Plus software enables easy operation of the instrument, and simplified workflows require little effort or cost to train users for instrument operation.
• Remote instrument configuration and monitoring is available with the NetPlus^™ cloud solution, with potential to easily set up a master/satellite network for users with multiple LactoScope instruments.