The Global Feed LCA Institute (GFLI) has certified and listed Selko IntelliBond Z, C and M within its new, branded feed ingredients database.
The listing comes after GLFI’s comprehensive internal review of IntelliBond’s technical dossier, including a recently completed LCA defining the carbon footprint for each of its trace mineral products. For feed formulators and nutritionists, the listing of Selko IntelliBond Z, C and M in the GLFI database offers assurance that the total carbon values per ton of product listed for IntelliBond Z, C and M have been independently verified to comply with all industry accepted sustainability standards.
External verification of a product’s sustainability status is especially important when it comes to ensuring that the product is in full compliance with all environmental statutes. Only then can industry professionals have confidence that the ingredients they select for their formulation have the required positive environmental impact. The verification process utilized by GFLI is designed to ensure that ingredients listed within its proprietary, global database have undergone a rigorous review by industry professionals to ensure that published values are compliant with all environmental statutes.
A key part of the GFLI certification process involved a comprehensive review of the Selko IntelliBond LCA for individual IntelliBond products (Z, C and M). The LCA development process involved an extensive review of all raw ingredients, energy consumption, water utilization and recovery, and logistics to arrive at a total amount of CO2 equivalent produced per ton of finished product. Following its development, the LCA was forwarded to an independent reviewer, Dr. Ermias Kebreab, associate dean for global engagement in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of California Davis. Kebreab completed an independent review of the LCA dossier to ensure its accuracy and compliance with industry statutes.
While the GLFI database is a trusted source for verifying ingredients’ carbon scores, the inclusion of branded feed additives, like Selko IntelliBond, within the database is new, and offers formulators and nutritionists greater flexibility to achieve their sustainability goals. Ongoing pressure from within the food industry to continue lowering the carbon footprint of food production is prompting formulators to consider how small changes in the additives and ingredients they choose can contribute to more sustainable food production.
“Sustainability is all about making incremental advances that collectively add up to significant improvements,” said Kevin Perryman, Selko’s global technical marketing adviser. “The investment in externally verifying Selko IntelliBond’s LCA and communicating these results via the GFLI ingredients database reflects our ongoing work to support feed formulators and nutritionists’ efforts to achieve improved sustainability within their formulations.”
