Water activity: A better moisture metric for pet food
Find the ideal water activity range for your pet food product that maximizes profit, nutrition, and tastiness while keeping it safe from microbes and mold.
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Pet Food
The key to quality pet food. Every pet food product has an ideal range of water activity. Mastering moisture levels helps maximize nutrition, safety, and flavor.
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Pet food meets precision. Water activity is a key indicator for the most innovative–and commercially successful–pet food companies. Measuring with precision helps those brands guarantee quality.
Hampshire Pet Products
Complex pet treats made simple.
With the help of SKALA and AQUALAB, Hampshire reduced scrap, increased yield, and ensured that their customers get perfectly consistent products every time.
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Hampshire Pet Products
Fast, accurate, safe. AQUALAB instruments lead the industry in water activity and moisture content measurement, helping keep your batches safe, your shipments running and your production at top performance.
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Ensure quality. Water activity is correlated with many reactions that impact or end shelf life. Keep your batches safe, consistent and ready-to-clear for every shipment.
How to predict moisture migration with water activity
Water activity, not water content, predicts how water will migrate. Knowing your ingredients’ aW levels can help you determine how to process, formulate and package.
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Real-time data for process control in food manufacturing
Most companies log data. Only the best use it to their competitive advantage. Here's how the right tools can transform your data into a clear and profitable course of action.
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How water activity controls microbial growth
Microorganisms rely on water for growth – without it, they're forced to go dormant. But how do you know how much water is available and which microbes will grow?
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"Measuring water activity after baking allowed more quality control before drying. More than what we saw with moisture content."
- Todd Dunlop, Director of Quality Assurance and R&D | Hampshire Pet Products
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Webinar
Market Snapshot:
Pet Food
We bought bags of kibble from a variety of retailers. We tested big brands alongside small niche companies. The result? A market snapshot of thirteen pet food brands. In this quick 15 minute webinar, Scott Campbell (CEO of METER Group, Inc. USA) reviews the findings.
Learn, apply, grow. Discover everything you need to know about optimizing pet food aw and MC in our Knowledge Base.
Education guides
Introduction to water activity (aw): The beginner's guide to water activity's role in food production
Water activity (aw) is directly related to the microbial susceptibility of food products and is correlated with many of the reactions that end shelf life in foods. Learn why water activity measurements in food are so powerful.
Education guides4 min read
The food manufacturer’s complete guide to water activity
For a cheap ingredient, water can cause a lot of expensive problems in the food industry. The best way to understand water in your product is by learning about water activity (aw).
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The beginner's guide to measuring yield and waste in food manufacturing
Understanding and eliminating waste is a powerful way to boost profits – but where to start? We recommend exploring these seven common methods for waste reduction.
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