Crude Fat in Meat & Meat Products

This test method is a validated gravimetric method for determining crude fat content in meat and poultry products, including raw, cooked, and processed forms. This method uses ether extraction to measure total fat.

Effective Calcium Carbonate Equivalent (%)

This test method is an official gravimetric procedure for determining calcium carbonate (CaCO₃) content in samples such as minerals, supplements, and food additives. The method involves acid digestion of the sample and measurement of the resulting carbon dioxide to quantify the effective calcium carbonate equivalence.

Energy Calculations

This test method is a cross-method calculation involving total digestible nutrients, net energy for lactation, net energy for maintenance, net energy for gain, digestible energy, and metabolizable energy analyses.

Energy Calculations [Swine]

This test method is a cross-method calculation involving digestible energy and metabolizable energy analyses.

Enterobacteriaceae

This test method is a standardized microbiological procedure for the detection and enumeration of Enterobacteriaceae in food and environmental samples. This method utilizes selective culture media and incubation conditions to isolate and quantify members of this important bacterial family.

Ethanol and Methanol in Ethanol

This test method is a standardized analytical procedure for the quantitative determination of ethanol and methanol concentrations in fuel ethanol. The method typically uses gas chromatography (GC) to separate and measure these alcohols with high accuracy and precision.

Ethanol in Oil

This test method is a semi-quantitative headspace analysis to determine the concentration of ethanol found in oil samples using GC (gas chromatography) technology.

Extraneous Material

This test method is a standardized procedure for the detection and quantification of external light filth—such as insect fragments, hair, fibers, and other extraneous materials—in grains and seeds. The method uses a sieve analysis technique.

Fatty Acid Ethyl Esters

This test method uses GC (gas chromatography) technology to characterize and quantify volatile polar compounds found within commercial oil processes with specific focus on ethanol esterified fatty acids. This test method quantifies ethyl palmitate, ethyl stearate, ethyl oleate, ethyl linoleate, as well as total fatty acid ethyl esters.

Fatty Acid Profile [FAME]

This test method is a gas chromatography (GC-FID)-based procedure for the quantitative determination of cis-, trans-, saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated fatty acids in vegetable oils and non-ruminant animal fats. This method enables detailed fatty acid profiling critical for nutritional labeling, product formulation, and quality control.