Edible Oils & Fats Analysis and Testing

Minton, Treharne & Davies Edible Oils and Fats Analysis and Testing Services

The MTD Edible Oils & Fats team undertakes investigations to determine the origin, cause and effect of problems occurring during the production and transport of edible oils and fats.

We have an expert team of food scientists, chemists, microbiologists, biotechnologists and scientists with experience of investigating quality issues with edible oils & fats that arise during production or during road, rail, or sea transportation

We have undertaken detailed investigations into quality issues that have arisen either during the production of edible oils & fats or during their shipment by road, rail, or sea.

In particular, MTD has extensive experience of undertaking investigations into quality issues that arise during the marine shipment of edible oils & fats commodities and have investigated quality issues arising from incidents that have occurred all over the world. We have attended numerous such incidents throughout the world and have attended vessels in China, the Far East, South America, North America and Europe. By way of example (but not limited to) we have attended incidents involving various grades of:

  • Soybean oil
  • Palm oil
  • Palm stearin and olein
  • Palm kernel oil
  • Palm kernel stearin and olein
  • Sunflower oil
Edible Oils & Fats Analysis and Testing

Edible Oils and Fats Quality Claims & Investigation

The wide range of issues we encounter during our edible oils & fats investigations requires the team to be supported by experts in related fields.

We can draw upon our in-house mariner expertise to provide advice on how vessel operations may have contributed to the deterioration of edible oils & fats commodities during shipment by sea. This advice and support can range from informal advice through to joint attendances at live incidents. Our mariners are located in our offices in Rotterdam, Cardiff, Singapore and Houston.

One example of this internal co-operation between different areas of expertise in MTD is in the investigation of the cross-contamination of different vegetable oils during vessel shipment. We have involved our mariners in determining how this may have occurred on the vessel.

We regularly attend joint analyses of retained samples in third party laboratories with other interested parties to confirm analytically whether the quality of an edible oil of fat has been compromised and, if so, what has caused the quality issue.

We have advised on mitigation options that might be employed to reduce the impact of a quality issue with edible oils & fats.

Our team is also supported by our extensive laboratory services, which are internationally recognised and accredited facilities. Our laboratory is a FOSFA full member analyst

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Key Personnel

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Flemming Mouridsen
Marine Consultant
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Dr Robert Sleat
Consultant Chemist & Biotechnologist
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