Bottles of various vegetable oils with nuts and seeds, representing automated analysis of sterols in edible oils.

Sterol Analysis for Food Control

Sterol analysis for food control - CHRONECT Workstation Sterols

Sterol analysis for food control - Use the sterol profile of fats and oils to determine the identity and authenticity. The manual standard methods ISO 12228:1999 and Regulation (EEC) 2568/91 are very time-consuming. 

Sterol analysis for food control

Advantages of the CHRONECT Workstation Sterols:

  • The PAL based solution by Axel Semrau company offers a fully automated solution to obtain reproducible results in short time
  • The only manual step is the weighing of the sample and placing it into the PAL System
  • Saponification and all following preparation steps are performed fully automated on a PAL RTC System
  • The sample purification is performed by online injection into a HPLC system
  • The sterol fraction is transferred to GC for individual sterols detection by FID
  • All interfering components which are tediously separated by TLC in the standard methods are elegantly separated by LC separation
  • The automated workflow is completely controlled by the user-friendly software CHRONOS
     

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