“…Various commercial hand-held devices, such as the Polychromix PHAZIR ™ (Polychromix Inc., Wilmington, MA, USA) [ 26 , 27 ], 4200 FlexScan FTIR (Agilent Technologies Inc., Danbury, CT, USA) [ 28 ], Micro-NIR 1700 (JDSU, Milpitas, CA, USA) [ 29 , 30 ] or the Agilent 4500 portable ATR-FTIR (Agilent Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA) [ 31 ] have been used for milk content analysis. Despite being portable and small in size, all hand-held devices still have prices around EUR 15,000–20,000, which hampers their distribution in all types of facilities and situations.…”