Food & Feed · Pet Food

Detect off-odours on every batch — objectively, in minutes.

Odour quality control for pet food

Across all applications, Olfaktion helps you reduce costs, improve process efficiency and ensure consistent quality — at every stage of your production chain.

Human sensory panels are slow to organise, prone to fatigue, and inconsistent across shifts and sites. In pet food manufacturing, an off-odour batch reaching the market can damage brand trust — and go undetected until it’s too late.

Olfaktion automates olfactory quality control with an objective, reproducible measurement — deployable directly on the production floor.

NeOse Advance electronic nose for pet food quality control

Where off-odours originate

Cooking and extrusion are the most critical steps. When temperature, retention time, or moisture drift — burnt notes, oxidised fat, and rancid profiles appear. Defects can enter at three points.

Raw materials

Degraded ingredients before processing begins.

In-process deviation

Cooking parameter drift during extrusion.

Post-extrusion

Oxidation during coating, storage, or transport.

How it works

  1. Sample the batch

    The sensor captures the full VOC signature of the sample — dry kibble, wet food, or raw material.

  2. Automatic analysis

    Software compares the VOC profile against validated reference models — no operator configuration.

  3. Pass / fail decision

    A clear result usable by any operator on the floor. No sensory expertise required.

Detects what human panels miss

NeOse Advance identifies a degraded olfactory profile even when overall odour intensity appears normal — the scenario most likely to go unnoticed with conventional checks.

Business outcomes

Faster batch release

Results in 5–30 minutes.

Consistent across sites

Same standard, any operator.

Reduced cost

Fewer defective batches and faster release.

Get started

I need to control quality in my production

Talk to our team about deploying NeOse Advance on your production line — from incoming raw materials to finished batch release.

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