Avantor offers an extensive range of FAME standards as Certified Reference Materials under the well-known PESTINORM® brand.

• All products are CRM acc ISO/IEC 17025 and ISO 17034
• All products are NEAT
• 24 month shelf life

Esterification of fatty acids is an important tool to determine content and characterise fats and oils in food, especially for measurement by GC methods. The simple derivatisation to create the methyl ester analogue is also used widely as a preliminary technique for assessing the quality and purity of biofuels. VWR® offers a comprehensive range of fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) Certified Reference Materials for calibration of GC instruments, for validation of analytical methods, preparation of 'working reference samples' or for detection limit and linearity studies.