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Supplying
dietary phosphorus to ruminants can be a wasteful business. We need to have
better knowledge of how much dietary P from feedstuffs is available to the
rumen, so that it contributes more to the animal and less to environmental
pollution. New techniques are under development to predict how dietary P is
partitioned in ruminants.
The use of
feed additives containing live micro-organisms and/or their metabolites to
improve the efficiency of production in ruminants has increased in response to
demands for using more “natural” growth-promoting substances. More research is
helping to realise potential applications of these additives in ruminant
nutrition.
Chinese veterinary drug company Skystar Bio-Pharmaceutical announced Monday that its new GMP certified production facilities have been completed and are fully operational.
The Universities of Alberta, Guelph and British Columbia have been awarded millions of dollars to compensate for financial damages resulting from an 8 year price fix on vitamins and food additives sold in Canada.
According to an economic study published by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, the use of growth-promoting antibiotics in chicken feed is a financial loser for poultry producers.
Feeding additives to dairy cows is often worth the money. However, you need to look at additives as a proper enhancing opportunity, rather than fixing a problem or minimizing return losses, said Michael Hutjens, University of Illinois, Urbana, Extension dairy specialist in the latest Farm & Ranch guide.
Lallemand announced today that Alkosel® has received a favorable opinion for
use in all animal species from the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA)
Scientific Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed.
One of the recent polls on this website was: The costly and time consuming new EU 'Feed Additive Regulation (1831/2003)' makes it impossible for small companies to compete on the feed additives markets.
