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In our laboratory we develop flow injection automated methods for olive oil analysis.
Home-made analyzers provide automated data acquisition and control.
Parallel incubation of multiple samples permits automation of olive oil analysis methods based on slow reactions.
The developed methods provide advantages in comparison to official methods and achieve:
High analysis rates: 20-100 samples per hour.
Full automation: Sampling, weighting, sample pretreatment, timing, data acquisition and calculations proceed at the press of a button. Lack of human intervention results in increased precision and accuracy.
Low cost: 0.2-7 ml of organic solvents are consumed per analysis. The low solvent consumption and the replacement of chlorinated solvents renders the developed methods environmental friendly.
Low sample consumption: 0.0012-0.2 mL per analysis.
Good agreement with time consuming official methods.
Protection of reagents from light and atmospheric oxygen.
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