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Omega-3 (n-3) fatty acids have several positive effects on the performance of farm animals and, of course, on the health of human consumers. Improving reproductive biological parameters and animal health status in large pig farms has a significant impact on economic outcomes. Several studies have already addressed the potential uses of various omega-3 fatty acid sources (e.g., flax, fish, and algae oils), but in many scientific articles we encounter application and trial doses whose practical relevance is only less comprehensible. In our disseminating article, we review the results that can be put into practice in pig farms.
Omega-3 zsírsavforrások előnyei gyakorlati megközelítésben – Tenyészsertések és malacok
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One of the most pressing technological problems of today is that we are using more and more tools designed to help our daily lives, yet many of them are not fit for it because it doesn’t matter how we use them. From smartwatches to high-tech refrigerators and washing machines to state-of-the-art agricultural machinery, we could mention a myriad of tools here. Without a user with the right skills, these tools are in many cases not even worth as much as their predecessors, as a wrong program choice can cause the tool to do the opposite of what we wanted. It is precisely these problems that we are forced to face in practice when exploring the future possibilities of the increasingly widespread near-infrared (NIR) technique.
Csúcstechnológiás gyorsvizsgálati analitika – Áldás vagy átok?
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For farms aiming to increase milk production, it is important to optimize feeding, in which on-farm silage testing based on near-infrared (NIR) technology and instrumental aroma testing can be an effective help. Below, we provide an overview of the ability of these technologies to meet today’s practical needs, as well as highlight some of the novel, future applications of these techniques.
Modern műszeres analitikai megoldások a szarvasmarha takarmányozásban
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There are countless stimuli in our lives. If we consider which of these stimuli is the most important in terms of nutrition, most likely we will vote for smells. Grandma’s apple pie is probably not bad when seen, but we do not even need to see as we can already smell it in the doorway. And the smell of spoiled meat immediately draws attention to the danger, even though we don’t even see the subject of the problem. A similarly pleasant or unpleasant smell can be a well or poorly fermented silage, formulated forage. Odor as a sensory property plays a very important role in the food industry as well as in the feed industry, and the objective instrumental examination of odors offers many hitherto untapped opportunities for professionals.
Műszeres aromaelemzés a mezőgazdaság szolgálatában
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Nowadays, fatty acids have become the focus of interest, which is related to their role in the body. This is especially true for polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), mainly n-6 (known as omega-6) and n-3 (known as omega-3) fatty acids.
A tehéntej zsírsavösszetételének javítása takarmányozás útján
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In the latest issue, we briefly summarized the challenges that near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy-based technology poses to novice users and developers. As a continuation, we will present the application possibilities of NIR technology available today, and we will emphasize the directions that we will encounter in the market in the near future based on our current knowledge.
Néhány gondolat a gyorsvizsgálati NIR technika mezőgazdasági alkalmazásairól
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There is a growing demand for the introduction of innovative technologies due to consumer expectations, the need to increase productivity and competitiveness, and the challenges of origin and quality assurance posed by the globalizing market. In contrast, a basic requirement is the rapid and reliable characterization of certain properties of each product at any stage of the production, processing and marketing process. In this paper, in addition to presenting near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy, we discuss some interesting details of this otherwise very fast, automated, non-destructive, and non-invasive technique.
A közeli infravörös spektroszkópia mint korrelatív gyorsvizsgálati módszer gyakorlati értékelése
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Sooner or later any of us might meet an NIR-sceptic person, sometimes with very strong chemical and analytical background, who has strict concerns about NIR spectroscopy, because it is – as such people argue – not a classical analytical technique, regarded as a secondary correlative tool and gives unreliable data that can be nicely studied with questionable methods, and finally, after involving hardly understandable mathematics, something nice comes out – but this is still not analytics. We are not willing to focus on the fact that with some extra hours even the “hardly understandable mathematics” could be comprehended, but to give some hints for the newcomers how to highlight the very powerful benefits of NIR that may also draw the attention on some of the weaknesses of chemical analytical techniques, thus, how NIR can help classical analytics.
Checking the laboratory reference values with NIR calibrations
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I have been working with NIRSystems instruments for many years and I am very familiar with these instruments. I am interested in looking at the spectra and trying to find out what the NIR signals mean. It is a kind of hobby, and this paper is a short explanation of some thoughts and doubts I have had regarding the results of recent experiments. I share these observations in the hope that if anyone else has similar questions and are interested in finding out the solution to these phenomena, they will share their results with all of us also.
Waves in the spectrum – a possible effect of scatter on NIR spectra?
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ADEXGO Kft. and Széchenyi István University are participating in a joint international EUREKA tender entitled “Exploitation of local biodiversity of yeast for wine production – development of a complex quality testing technology enabling the objective characterization and identification of wines”.
The consortium led by the Romanian company SC ICA Research and Development SRL, including ADEXGO Kft. and Széchenyi István University, as well as two other Romanian partners, SC Pharmacorp Innovation SRL and the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest (USAMVB) won a tender in the international EUREKA program. To implement the tasks undertaken in the project, the Hungarian participants receive a total of HUF 68,828,812 non-refundable support from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund in the tender entitled “Support for Hungarian participation in the EUREKA program (2019-2.1.1-EUREKA)”.
The main goal of the project is to develop new, innovative processes in winemaking and wine testing. Within the framework of the 3-year project, the members of the Hungarian consortium are developing a complex instrumental rapid analytical methodology for the objective qualification of wines, using electronic aroma analysis and near-infrared spectroscopy. The development makes it possible to objectively describe the quality of wines and to detect wine defects and wine diseases at an early stage. The procedure can be an innovative objective tool in both self-tests and official inspections in wineries, and can also be used to determine the quality parameters of other products of the food and feed industry.
The project is implemented in the CORRELTECH® laboratory of ADEXGO Kft. in Herceghalom and in the Department of Food Science at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences of the Széchenyi István University.
