Recognized as a Center of Excellence for Nutrition, the Des Moines laboratory specializes in analyzing feed, commodities, pet food, human food and dietary supplements for nutritional content. Areas of nutrition expertise include: - Complete proximate testing (including total dietary fiber) - Vitamins using LC, LC-MS/MS - Amino Acids, Mineral and inorganic analyses using state of the art technology - Lipid and fatty acid analyses using mainly wet chemistry and GC methodologies - Center of Excellence for enzyme testing for amylase, protease and phytase. - Complete nutritional testing for food & beverage products, including generation of Nutrition Facts Panels This laboratory is one of only 13 Official Referee laboratories for soybean meal and oil certified by the AOCS and NOPA. It is an USDA inspected laboratory and is ISO-17025 accredited.