For dogs, the most popular type of pet food is dry and—as you might expect—each brand tends to vary in moisture and ash content as well as in ingredient composition. Therefore, to ensure the highest quality product, commercial pet food manufacturers must carefully monitor the ingredients, mineral levels and moisture content in their pet foods to maintain a high level of consistency. Traditionally these measurements have been made using AOAC approved methods that require ovens or furnaces. Although these methods provide reliable and accurate results, they also often require long testing times, which can greatly reduce a manufacturer’s ability to control quality during production. Download the poster Quality Control In order to help improve quality and consistency during production, new rapid loss‐on‐drying and loss-on-ignition instruments such as the Computrac® MAX® 5000XL Moisture, Solids and Ash analyzer are able to produce the same consistent results as traditional method...