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Formulation & Nutrition

DSM Animal Nutrition & Health offers packaging premix in LDPE bags

DSM Animal Nutrition & Health now offers the option of packaging premix in low-density linear polyethylene (LDPE) bags. The white-tinted bags are 100 percent recyclable and provide protection from air and sunlight that can be detrimental to vitamin potency in animal feed.

Feed additive business unit names managing director

Martjin Adorf has been named managing director of Selko,Nutreco’s global feed additive business unit. He will be based out of Tilburg,The Netherlands.

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Adisseo Selisseo additive receives market authorization for animal nutrition use

Adisseo's Selisseo, a nutritional supplement based on Tetrahedron's NutraSelen compound, has received market authorization from the European Commission for use in animal nutrition for all species. Selisseo is the first proprietary organoselenium-based product to be granted a market authorization in Europe for use in animal nutrition.

Two common mistakes in animal feed additives research

Feed additives are a multi-billion international business, part of the greater animal nutrition industry. Each year, millions are spent of research, yet very few data are being published in credible scientific journals.

Formulation & Nutrition

Welfare animal nutrition – Trend or Fad?

Treatinganimals so that they don’t suffer is something we all consider desirable, notonly from a ‘humanistic’ point of view, but also from a productivity concern.But, going further than this for marketing purposes is becoming a trend. Or, isit rather a fad?

Animal Feed Regulations & Safety

Lohmann Animal Health signs contracts with Taiwan research institutes

Lohmann Animal Health has signed long-term cooperation contracts with Taiwan research institutes in order to expand its global business activities and compound product portfolio on an international scale. These agreements include the foundation of a new subsidiary, Lohmann Animal Health Pingtung, and the planned building of a GMP facility for vaccine production in the Pingtung Agricultural Biotechnology Park, according to the company.

Livestock & Poultry Diseases

Zoetis becomes fully independent animal health company

Zoetis Inc. has finalized its separation from Pfizer Inc., becoming a fully independent animal health company, according to reports. As of June 24, according to the terms of the exchange offer that commenced on May 22, Pfizer has accepted shares of Pfizer stock in exchange for all of its 400,985,000 shares of Zoetis common stock, according to the preliminary results of its exchange offer.

Feed Mill Management

InVivo Animal Nutrition inaugurates Indonesia feed mill

France-based InVivo Animal Nutrition & Health, a global producer of compound feed, premixes and feed additives, as well as a provider of lab analysis services, inaugurated its newest feed mill in Indonesia on June 20. The $15-million, 125,000-metric-ton feed mill is the group's fifth to open in the first half of 2013, according to the company, joining two compound feed plants in Brazil, one pet food plant in Mexico and one compound feed plant in Vietnam.

Formulation & Nutrition

How do you market animal nutrition?

I recently wrote a blog (www.WATTAgNet.com/158107.html) on how to market animal nutrition products, but several readers emailed me to say this was a recipe on how to market "success" itself. That is, if you already do something right, then how do you let others know about it?

Schaumann Ceravital feed additive

The Schaumann Ceravital feed additive is a product of solid-state fermentation. The additive stabilizes the gastrointestinal system by promoting good bacteria, improving feed conversion and animal nutrition.

Calpis America breaks ground on feed additive manufacturing plant

Calpis America Inc. broke ground on a $20 million animal feed additive manufacturing plant and headquarters facility in the Peachtree City industrial park in Georgia on May 17. The Japanese company will employ roughly 50 people at the plant, 42 of which will be created in the first year of operations on the 12-acre site.

Diamond V Mills SynGenx feed additive

The Diamond V Mills SynGenx feed additive supports pig digestiveand immune system health. The all-natural additive is unaffected by extremetemperatures, pH or processing and does not require special storage.

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