Livestock Feedstuffs Laboratory

via Valdisavoia - Ground floor - Rooms 14 and 15
Person in charge: Marco Sebastiano Bella
Preposto: Salvatore Bordonaro
Laboratory usage: research

The instrumentation of this laboratory allows analytical determinations of the most important feedstuffs characteristics. In particular, the laboratory is provided with two fume hood for the solvent removal, and analyzer for fiber fractions (NDF, ADF and ADL), a Soxhlet extractor for lipid determination, a system for the digestion, distillation and titration of protein. Moreover, the laboratory is provided with an oven and a furnace for dry matter and ash analysis, and with a rotative solvent evaporator.