Quality Assurance

Making sure we get it right for you

Quality is everyone’s job

Trouw Nutrition takes an all-hands-on-deck approach to quality.
Every person who works in our organization plays a role in ensuring the quality of the ingredients and blends we supply. With quality carefully safeguarded, we can confidently innovate for our customers. Whether we’re your source for ingredients, premixes, base blends, or specialty blends, you can be sure Trouw has checked — and re-checked — everything we deliver to you.  Our Positive Release Program assures every batch meets  specifications before leaving our doors.

Nutrace® program - an industry innovation

Nutrace is Trouw’s quality feed-to-food safety program and the industry’s only “100-touch” assurance program. Key features of the Nutrace program include total traceability of feed batches back to their raw materials, and ingredient and supplier assessment management. This methodology uses a common set of standards to ensure we use only healthy, safe, and sustainable raw materials from known suppliers and origins.

Quality counts for your brand. Let’s talk about the best ways to protect it.

Plant & lab quality certifications

                     

Our goal is to keep taking

quality to the next level.

Trouw Nutrition Quality Assurance Includes These Processes And More

Near-infrared spectroscopy analysis (NIR)

  • Efficient, chemical-free process ideal for organic-containing compounds
  • Effective alternative to manual sieve testing
  • Can include discriminate analysis against historical data

Energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXR)

  • Used for mineral and inorganic analysis
  • Checks for potential contaminants
  • Provides qualitative and quantitative analyses

Lab RetrieverTM LIMS

  • Manages and organizes data across labs and tests
  • Ensures analysis consistency
  • Improves operational efficiency and data sharing

Vitamin testing

  • ISO/IEC 17025:2017 certified
  • Ensures correct vitamin levels throughout mix
  • Results typically available in just 2 days

Powder flow testing

  • Key to achieving homogeneous premix
  • Measures bulk density, wall friction, and other factors
  • Used to optimize handling characteristics

Mixer studies

  • Checks for even dispersal
  • Identifies sources of dispersal errors
  • Enables correction of premixes

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How can our comprehensive quality approach serve your brand?