Antibiotics were once called miracle drugs because they revolutionised treatment of disease, curing bacterial infections that used to lead to debilitation and, all too often, death. Not only humans, but also livestock and pets have benefited from the...

01 jun 2006

When opportunity came knocking, Triumph Engineering founder, president and managing director Boonchai Kositkhun was among the first to realize it. This was back in 1985 when he received an unsolicited order from Thailand’s THH Group for 15 sets of t...

01 dec 2005

Feed raw materials sometimes have a pleasant smell, such as by-products from the fruit juice industry. But products can also have a foul odour, especially when oils and fats are involved or products are treated by pressure and temperature. To avoi...

01 oct 2005

Water is the cheapest feed ingredient, so as a feed manufacturer you want maximum amount of it in your recipe. However, every ingredient has its own moisture content and this often varies. Modern technologies make it possible to check an ingredien...

01 oct 2005

By using an automated single-kernel handling system coupled with a near-infrared spectrometer, entomologist James Throne and colleagues found they could pinpoint grain kernels that looked ordinary on the outside but harboured growing insects inside.

01 jun 2005

All around the world today, government bodies and consumers alike are increasingly demanding higher standards in all aspects of feed production. To meet these demands while at the same time ensuring continued profitability feed producers need to have...

01 jun 2005

A premix is an effective and convenient way of ensuring that the formulation transfers from paper to pellet or mash. Integration and modernisation in the Indian poultry industry in recent years means that, although the basic raw materials might be di...

01 sep 2004

South Africa is using the EU regulations on feed safety and product quality as an example to improve its national feed industry. Eventually it hopes to be able to export animal products to the large consumer market in Europe.

01 may 2004

Feed manufacturing is becoming more tailor made; each farm is its own formulation. This make it extremely difficult for medium sized feed compounders to keep all their products properly separated. Carry-over can be a major problem as a survey of the ...

01 sep 2003

European compound feed manufacturers, united by Fefac, are looking had to create a harmonised Quality-Assurance System at European level. A recently carried out benchmark study compared GMP codes in eight EU countries. The outcome showed that there ...

01 aug 2003