1000+
connected NIR instruments
BESTMIX® Quality Control for the pet food industry
Quality issue detected too late? Catch deviations before they impact production
From lab data to production insights, turn quality measurements into actionable decisions. Centralize your quality data, automate testing workflows and respond instantly to deviations. BESTMIX® Quality Control helps you ensure product safety, consistency and compliance from intake to finished products.
One single source of truth for all quality data
Act immediately on deviations and reduce risk
Turn quality data into better purchasing and formulation decisions
Ensure full traceability and compliance at every step
Important numbers at a glance
100+
lab integrations
50+
years of expertise and innovation
Everything you need to manage quality from raw material to finished product
Detect deviations before they become problems
Automatically compare quality results against predefined specifications and tolerances. Receive notifications for out-of-spec results, investigate issues faster, and take corrective action before product quality is affected.
Turn quality data into smarter decisions
Go beyond collecting test results. Analyze trends, benchmark suppliers, monitor ingredient variability, and use real-time quality data to improve purchasing, formulation, and production decisions.
Improve traceability and audit readiness
Get complete visibility across samples, approvals, test results, and quality workflows. Simplify audits, strengthen compliance, and trace quality issues from raw materials to finished products with confidence.
Connect quality with formulation and production
Quality should not operate in isolation. Integrate laboratory data, quality measurements, formulation systems, ERP, and production workflows to ensure every decision is based on accurate, up-to-date information
Reduce manual work through automation
Automatically collect data from laboratory instruments, NIR systems, scales, external laboratories, and other software applications. Save time, reduce errors, and focus on improving quality instead of managing spreadsheets.
Take control of ingredient variability
Monitor quality differences between suppliers, lots, and raw materials in real time. Understand how ingredient variability impacts production and make proactive decisions before quality issues arise.
“What I like most, apart from the quality of the software, is the way in which BESTMIX thinks along with the customer. We have become real partners”
Ben Lamberigts Quality Manager at Alltech Coppens
FAQ's
Find quick answers to the most common questions about BESTMIX® Quality Control
Yes. BESTMIX® Quality Control can receive results from internal NIR systems and external laboratories and automatically import them into the platform. Samples can be registered in BESTMIX® Quality Control, analysis requests sent to the appropriate laboratory or NIR system, and results automatically evaluated against reference values before being approved or rejected as part of the quality workflow.
Over time, BESTMIX® Quality Control updates ingredient averages and pushes approved values into the ingredient matrix used by Recipe Management. This helps ensure formulations are based on current ingredient data rather than stale monthly or quarterly averages.
Yes. When a product is formulated in BESTMIX® Recipe Management, the expected nutrient values flow directly into BESTMIX® Quality Control. Finished-product samples can be tested using internal laboratories, external laboratories, or NIR systems, and the results are imported into the platform.
BESTMIX® Quality Control compares actual results directly against the original formulation and expected nutrient values. Over time, users can track trends and deviations across batches, making it easier to support AAFCO testing programs and internal quality evaluation.
BESTMIX combines three layers of traceability: a complete audit trail of recipe and ingredient changes, approval workflows that record which version was active at the time of production, and lot-level tracking that records which ingredient lots were used in which production orders.
For example, if an FDA inquiry requires identifying all batches that used a specific lot of vitamin D, users can trace the lot across production orders, identify affected finished goods, and see which recipe version was approved and used during production.
This transforms recall investigations and regulatory inquiries from a manual search across spreadsheets and ERP exports into a structured, searchable process. The same data supports SQF, ISO, AAFCO, and FDA audit requirements.
Yes. BESTMIX maintains a complete audit trail for recipes and ingredients, recording who made a change, what changed, when it happened, and why.
Users can review version history, compare differences between versions, export audit records, and restore ingredient analysis values directly from the audit trail. This traceability supports regulatory, certification, and internal audit requirements while providing QA, R&D, and regulatory teams with complete visibility into formulation changes.
Yes. The report comparison function generates a side-by-side comparison of a recipe against AAFCO requirements, your internal specifications, or any other nutritional or regulatory framework in a single report.
Yes. The Recipe Deviation Report compares recipe values against recipe constraints and framework constraints, helping teams identify nutrients and other parameters that fall outside specification when ingredient data changes.
The report covers composition, consolidated composition, nutrient analysis, declarations, external sums, external ratios, and includes an overview that summarizes all deviations by source. Results can be filtered to show all values, only constrained values, or only deviations, and displayed in absolute values, percentages, or both.
This makes it easy to identify which products require reformulation and how far each nutrient is from its minimum or maximum limit.
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