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Nutriad Sanacore

Nutriad offers Sanacore range for animal health and performance. Sanacore products help to reduce the prevalence of bacterial and necrotic enteritis in animals, the company says. According to Nutriad, the products are designed to have an effect on gut morphology, nutrition and pathogenesis of intestinal disease.

Brand Insights

Rethinking calf nutrition: 5 reasons to embrace vegetable proteins in CMRs

Hamlet Protein

Discover how enzyme-treated soy protein like Hamlet Protein’s HP 100 offers a sustainable, cost-effective alternative to traditional milk proteins in CMRs.

Rethinking calf nutrition: 5 reasons to embrace vegetable proteins in CMRs

Pig Health & Disease

High amounts of vomitoxin found on Ontario corn crop

The fungal disease vomitoxin is being reported in large amounts in Southwestern Ontario's corn crop, and some field tests are coming back with high levels of the type of vomitoxin that pigs are particularly sensitive to, according to reports. The disease, which appears in overly wet conditions and can sicken livestock if consumed in high concentrations, is already being monitored by the industry.

Pig Health & Disease

Russia imposes ban on live pigs from Germany

Russia has imposed a ban on live pigs from Germany after elevated levels of dioxin were found in sugar beet pulp, a feed ingredient from sugar producer Pfeifer & Langen. Dioxin levels were found to be 1.0-1.6 nanograms per kilo, slightly above the permitted 0.75 nanograms per kilo, according to reports.

Poultry performance improves over past decades

Bird performance in the commercial poultry industry has shown a staggering improvement over recent decades. Modern broilers weigh about 2.5 kg at 39 days, with a live-weight feed conversion ratio of 1.6 kg of feed per kilogram of body weight gain.

Meriden Animal Health Phyconomix

Meriden Animal Health's Phyconomix is a ready-to-use range of products designed to fulfill the nutritional requirements of growing shrimp and fish larvae. The company says Phyconomix eliminates the need to produce algae within the aquaculture hatchery.

Animal Feed Manufacturing

Alltech to stream live sessions from Animal Health Symposium

Alltech will host its 27th Annual International Animal Health and Nutrition Symposium on Sunday, May 22, in Lexington, Ky. Dedicated to exploring "The Game Changers" for business and the animal health and feed industries, Alltech says the program includes The Economist’s Tom Standage, Nestlé’s Hans Jöhr, Chick-fil-A’s Brian Coan, J. O’Callaghan of JBS USA and more.

US feed industry urges FDA to continue regulatory discretion for ingredients

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration should continue to exercise regulatory discretion to maintain the continued availability of a number of unapproved animal drug products, said the National Grain and Feed Association in a statement to the FDA. The types of animal feed and pet food products currently regulated by the FDA that could fall within the category of “unapproved animal drugs” include products formulated from animal feed ingredients that help manage, from a dietary and nutritional standpoint, a specific disease or condition under a licensed veterinarian’s professional supervision, said the NGFA.

Trouw Nutrition International Calfix

Trouw Nutrition International

Trouw Nutrition International offers Calfix. Calfix is a dietetic compound feed formulated to reduce the risk of clinical milk fever in dairy cows.

VIV Asia concentrates focus on region’s booming agriculture

The tenth edition of VIVAsia – VIVAsia 2011 – is currently being held in Bangkok, Thailand. Alongside the main event, the first edition of Aquatic Asia is taking place, as is FeedTech-Croptech, the dedicated event for the Asia-Pacific milling industries, with a conferences held in association with WATT.

UK pig producers to gain consumer insight

UK pig producers and supply chain businesses are being invited to a live debate on consumer opinions regarding genetically modified feed materials and processed animal protein in livestock rations. Pig & Poultry LIVE 2011, on May 11 at Stoneleigh Park near Coventry, will include a series of highly focused technical and business workshops on topics ranging from risk management when buying feed to health and welfare.

Animal Feed Regulations & Safety

New FDA salmonella draft policy clarifies US animal feed issues

A new Food and Drug Administration draft policy takes a more science- and risk-based approach to regulating salmonella in animal feed, according to the National Grain and Feed Association. Under the FDA’s draft policy, the agency identifies eight salmonella serotypes that are of regulatory concern to animal health.

Livestock & Poultry Diseases

Phibro Animal Health Inc.

65 Challenger Rd.

3rd Floor

Ridgefield Park, NJ 07660

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