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The role of rendered  products in aquaculture feeds

With feed costs usually representing over half the operating cost of most finfish and shrimp farming operations, and an economic climate of steadily increasing feed ingredient and processing costs, considerable efforts have been placed by feed manufacturers on reducing feed costs through improvements in ingredient selection and feed formulation.
Non-European countries make increased use of processed animal proteins in aquafeeds. Total global compound... read more »

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Amino acid digestibility in heated soybean meal

Soybean meal fed to pigs undergoes heat treatment to destroy trypsin inhibitors and other antinutritional factors that impair the digestion of protein and thus reduce performance. However, heat treatment can damage nutrients as well. In particular, the Maillard reaction reduces amino acid digestibility by combining amino acids with sugars to produce biologically unavailable compounds. read more >

Betaine hydrochloride: An essential nutrient in broiler diets

Betaine is a known functional nutrient in broiler nutrition, which was in the past mainly used as betaine anhydrous extracted from sugar beets. Nowadays, it is also available as betaine hydrochloride from synthetic production. read more >

Japanese technology thrives at French malting specialist

Privately owned malting specialist Soufflet, headed by Jean Michel Soufflet since 2000, introduced its new feed ingredient Avimalt Plus to the market, some three years ago. The product is now available for pigs, poultry and ruminants. The company has also expanded its R&D considerably with the aim to further improve the product and the technology of solid state fermentation. read more >

How to value lucrative enzymes in linear programming

Enzymes have become a key solution in resource efficiency. Phytase is known to raise the available or digestible phosphorus. However, the power to release digestible P out of plant phytate is not linear. This means that it’s no use adding (expensive) phytase to the feed unlimitedly. But how to deal with this non-linear effect? How to obtain the most cost-effective use of enzymes in your formulation? read more >

Evaluating mycotoxin binders with ducklings

Contrary to common belief, aflatoxins are still present in many feed components and by-products worldwide. A number of companies claim that their products efficiently minimise this animal and public health risk by mycotoxin binding. A new tool using ducklings as testing animals allows evaluation of mycotoxin binders in ‘real-life’ conditions. This highly reproducible model allows the comparison of toxin binders for their efficacy in ‘real life’ conditions, highlighting wide differences of performances in this model. read more >
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