Recently, Matís in Neskaupstaður started using a complete tool for measuring and analyzing fish proteins. The device, from the company Elementar in Germany, is of the type Fast N / Protein Analyzer rapid N cube.
The device is based on the so-called Dumas method, but measurements according to this method is based on dry combustion and measurement of nitrogen in the form of gas (N2). The method is many times faster and more environmentally friendly than the Kjeldahl method, which is widely used for measuring protein in food and feed samples.
According to Þorsteinn Ingvarsson, Matís' station manager in Neskaupstaður, the device is very fast and accurate and therefore makes it very easy to measure nitrogen and proteins in fishmeal.
Matís' office in Neskaupstaður mainly handles microbial and chemical measurements for the fishmeal industry in the East Fjords, but the focus of the fishmeal industry in Iceland is in that area.
The picture shows Karl Rúnar Róbertsson, a specialist at Matís in Neskaupstaður with the protein analyzer.