MENLO PARK, CALIF. — NeoSpectra by Si-Ware, a developer of material analysis solutions, announced a partnership with NutriControl Analytical Solutions, a laboratory network serving the dairy, animal, pet and human food industries. The partnership will allow NeoSpectra to provide its users with NutriControl’s NIR calibration services to ensure accurate analysis and food safety across many products, including animal feed, grain and pet food.

Netherlands-based NutriControl creates NIR calibration lines and cloud services that can be used to analyze animal feed, grain, dairy products, silages and pet food products, as well as raw materials. The calibration lines are developed using wet chemical tests.

“We’re excited to partner with NutriControl on this endeavor and pair their NIR calibration expertise with our user-friendly portable technology,” said Ralph Hewitt, vice president of global sales, NeoSpectra by Si-Ware. “Our team is dedicated to developing industry partnerships that strengthen our product accuracy, provide customers with the most options in the calibration lines they use, and introduce tangible benefits to our end users. Reliable calibration is essential to achieving fast and accurate materials analysis, and we feel even more confident in the accuracy of the results from our NeoSpectra Scanner by working with proven calibration partners like NutriControl.”

NeoSpectra by Si-Ware’s partnership with NutriControl expands its capabilities to customers of the NeoSpectra by Si-Ware’s Lab Store. The Lab Store provides access to calibration models developed by NIR experts. Combined with NutriControl, NeoSpectra Scanner users will be able to obtain the calibration lines needed for accurate food analysis.

“Our customers have long understood the need for accurate materials analysis, and now more than ever, they are searching for portable solutions to conduct real-time sampling and accurate measurements,” said Jörgen van den Ende, managing director, NutriControl. “Through our collaboration with NeoSpectra by Si-Ware, we now have the opportunity to implement our calibration lines on a portable system that will bring value to all global users.”

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