SMS and Texture Technologies have customers in every facet of pet food testing. Our clients test products as delicate as fish food flakes (firmness and disintegration behavior) to the cohesiveness of dog foods, to the crunchiness of cat kibble, to breaking of biscuits, and even the hardness of synthetic dog bones. Our instruments are used every day to measure the medicinal pills that pets are given and the firmness of pet stool as indications of nutitional uptake during long-term feed and veternary studies.
The pet food industry uses our equipment in their research & development facilities and throughout food companies' manufacturing facilities. We are familiar with the types of problems and challenges our pet-food industry clients experience and can help guide them toward which fixtures highlight specific behaviors and teach them test methods that are effective immediately after they purchase the instrument.