News & Analysis on the Global Animal Feed and Pet Food Industries
Sales of antibiotics for livestock in Europe have fallen again, with the latest data signifying a reduction of over a third in antimicrobial usage in farm animals in the region between 2011 and 2018.
Single cell protein (SCP) innovator, Deep Branch, has been awarded €2.5m (US$2.93m) from an accelerator fund to help shift it towards industrial scale production and get volumes of its protein feed, Proton, out for testing purposes.
Researchers claim spray coating probiotics onto broiler feed pellets may be an effective solution to prevent thermal deactivation of the microbials during pelleting.