Fee Schedule

K-State offers a wide variety of laboratory services. Click on the links below to view fees for available analyses.

K-State Meat Lab
Meat Cookery & Sensory Lab
Color Lab
Chemistry Lab
Microbiology Lab
Customized Service

**All fees subject to change.**

K-State Meat Lab

Facility Use Fee (with Personnel Support)

per day

$1022.00

Facility Use Fee (with Limited Personnel Support) per day $584.00
Facility Clean-Up per day $225.00
Smokehouse use per batch $73.00
Drying chamber per 24 hour period $37.00
Technical Assistance per hour/per person $73.00
trained Student Labor per hour/per person $17.50
Packaging Charge per package $3.43

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Meat Cookery and Sensory Lab

trained sensory panel evaluations (descriptive attribute panel)

K-State personnel involved in research

per sample $20.00
Service charge on any project $43.80

Service projects with accelerated schedule

per sample negotiated

Consumer panel evaluation per sample $15.00

Warner-Bratzler shear force determination

K-State personnel involved in research per sample $6.00
Service projects per sample $10.00
Service projects with accelerated schedule per sample negotiated

Instron Testing

Service for use unrelated to Warner-Bratzler shear force determination

minimum charge $30.00
50 kg load cell per sample $1.50
500 kg load cell per sample $2.00
Technician time (beyond orientation) per hour $20.00

Blodgett oven and MagiKitchen Belt-Grill

Cooking not related to Warner-Bratzler shear force or trained sensory panel evaluation, or not associated with research project per hour $20.00
Technician time (beyond orientation) per hour $20.00

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Color Lab

Visual color evaluation per sample $35.00
Instrumental color evaluation per sample/per time $4.38
Cooler use per sample/per day $4.38
Display case use, maintenance, clean-up, light bulbs.etc. per case/per day $36.50
Display case extended storage life studies per project varies
Photography - Film $7.30
Photography - Digital $4.38
training Fees - Any instrument (minimum charge) per instrument $43.80
training Fees - Video Image Unit per hour $14.60
Microscrope Use (operator time fees separate) per hour $14.60
Spectrophotometer Use (operator time fees separate) per hour $14.60
Mini Scan Use (operator time fees separate) per hour $7.30
Video Image Analysis Use (operator time fees separate) per hour $29.20

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Chemistry Lab

Service Charge on Any Project $43.80
Data Entry, Graphic, Statistical Analysis & General Lab Labor per hour $14.60
Sample Preparation per sample $6.57
Packaging per sample/per time $4.38
Gas Analyses (O2, CO2) per sample/per time $4.38
Odor Analyses (3 member panel) per sample/per time $14.60
pH by Probe per sample/per time $3.00
pH by Solution per sample/per time

$4.38

Sarcomere Length by Laser per sample/per time $11.68
Sarcomere Length by Microscope per sample/per time $21.90
Total Collagen (student run) per sample/per time $29.20
Total Collagen (student run with student labor provided) per sample/per time $36.50
Total Collagen (lab run) per sample/per time $43.80
Soluble Collagen add per sample/per time (double if cooking is required) $10.22
WHC, Carver Press, Centrifugation, or Fish Hook per sample/per time $7.30
WHC (if cooking is required) twice normal rate

Proximate Analysis

Sample preparation per sample $3.00
Moisture content per sample $3.00
Fat Content per sample $6.00
Crude protein content per sample $6.50
Ash Content per sample $2.50

General Lab Procedures

Less Involved Pigment Extractions, Hornsey, etc. $14.60
Moderately Involved TBARS, etc. $27.74
Extensively Involved Electropho, Histochem, etc. $55.48

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Microbiology Lab

Aerobic plate counts (petrifilm) per sample $15.00
E. coli plate counts (petrifilm) per sample $15.00

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Customized Service

Requests to do customized versions of a test already approved on an existing Schedule of Charges will be negotiated with the individual customer. The charge will be determined in accordance with PPM3085 and will include a component for recovery of indirect costs when an external customer is involved.