Multinational feed additives producer Nutriad, participated for the thirteenth time in the World Dairy Expo earlier this month. An industry leader for decades, Nutriad was a proud Two Star sponsor of the event. The popular conference welcomed eighty- five thousand dairy farmers and professionals.
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Today we face an onslaught of articles and directives that deal with the use of antibiotics in a myriad of feed and water applications. This is in addition to the therapeutic applications usually administered by veterinarians. The concern over antibiotic resistance in a number of human applied antibiotics is gaining significant attention in the medical community and with the consumers across the world.
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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended that all veterinary medicines containing zinc oxide should be withdrawn. This decision follows an EMA conclusion that the benefit-to-risk balance for veterinary medicines containing zinc oxide is negative. The Digestive Performance team of feed additives producer Nutriad examines the impact of such a possible ban.
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Multinational feed additives producer Nutriad, through its distributor in Indonesia Kalbe Animal Health successfully launched their Digestive Performance products ADIMIX® (ADIMIX® Precision & ADIMIX® Easy) and their Mycotoxin Management portfolio (TOXY-NIL®, TOXY-NIL® PLUS and UNIKE® PLUS) at a technical swine seminar in Medan (Indonesia).
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Global nutritional health company Diamond V brings pre-harvest food safety research and expertise to the EuroTier international agricultural trade show in Hanover, Germany during 15-18 November.
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Campylobacteriosis is among the most common bacterial infections in humans: in the EU alone, the number of cases per year is estimated to be around 9 million. Knowing that the disease is often linked to the consumption of contaminated poultry meat, it is significant that in a recent EU baseline survey, the average prevalence of Campylobacter in broilers and on carcasses was found to be 71% and 76%, respectively.
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BENEO is pleased to announce that based on a 13.5 health claim application it has gained a positive EFSA evaluation for its prebiotic fibre inulin improving the effect on bowel function by increasing stool frequency. The application includes new and proprietary scientific research. EFSA’s positive evaluation allows the approval by the Commission, the Member States and the European Parliament within the health claim procedure and opens the way for new food and drink applications to benefit both the industry and consumers alike.
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Ahead of the EuroTier 2014, Big Dutchman has been awarded a gold medal for its PEF System innovation, which allows the whole maize plant to become digestible for pigs.
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Recent research has linked the rise of fussy fruit and vegetable eaters in Western society to the population’s increased development of allergic asthma over the past 50 years.
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The European Commission concluded with its regulation 1060/2013 that bentonite* has the potential to reduce the contamination by aflatoxin B1 of poultry, pig and ruminant feeds.
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Following a request from the European Commission, the Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies (NDA) derived Dietary Reference Values (DRVs) for molybdenum.
Molybdenum is efficiently and rapidly absorbed at a wide range of intakes, and the body is able to maintain homeostasis through the regulation of excretion via the urine.
Molybdenum deficiency in otherwise healthy humans has not been observed and there are no biomarkers of molybdenum status. Various metabolic balance studies have been performed to establish molybdenum requirements.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today published a new regulation defining the term "gluten-free" for voluntary food labeling.
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Hostazym X is an enzyme preparation of xylanase produced by a non-genetically modified strain of Trichoderma citrinoviride. The fermentation product showed negative results in a bacterial reverse mutation assay. The results of an in vitro chromosomal aberration test and of an in vivo comet assay indicate the presence of genotoxic activity in the product.
Although the tolerance studies provided in target species did not indicate any adverse effect of the additive, the FEEDAP Panel, taking into account the genotoxic hazard from the product, cannot conclude on the safety of the additive for the target species.
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This year’s impressive number of applications for the EuroTier innovation awards has once again confirmed the event’s status as the largest international platform for innovations in machinery, equipment and supplies for the professional livestock sector.
EuroTier organizer DLG (German Agricultural Society) has received more than 300 submissions, from 182 exhibitors across 23 countries, which represents a new all-time high for the EuroTier event.
Notably, around half of the entries come from exhibitors based outside of host country Germany.
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This Scientific Opinion reports on an evaluation of a risk assessment for the placing on the market for cultivation of genetically modified soybean 40-3-2, and updates the previous EFSA GMO Panel Scientific Opinion on the renewal applications for the continued marketing of soybean 40-3-2.
The EFSA GMO Panel considered that soybean 40-3-2 is unlikely to raise additional environmental safety concerns compared with conventional soybean, but that the management of its cultivation could result in environmental harm under certain conditions.
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PepsiCo's Frito-Lay North America division recently announced a multi-year initiative to validate many of their products as gluten free, with package labeling to follow.
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Ammonium chloride when used in feedingstuffs reduces the urinary pH and the formation of urinary calculi of target animals. Amoklor contains 99  % ammonium chloride. Ammonium chloride in complete diet for lambs for fattening at the maximum dose of 1  % is considered safe for a limited period of feeding (approximately three months), the margin of safety being small (≤1.5). No residues of the parent compound and its ions are expected in organs and tissues of the target animal when fed ammonium chloride.
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Scientific Opinion on application (EFSA-GMO-CZ-2008-54) for placing on the market of genetically modified insect resistant and herbicide tolerant maize MON 88017 for cultivation under Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 from Monsanto
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Even as the veggie blame game is now under way across the EU, where a super resistant strain of e.coli is sickening patients and filling hospitals in Germany, virtually no one is talking about how e.coli could have magically become resistant to eight different classes of antibiotic drugs and then suddenly appeared in the food supply.
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The Dannon Company, Inc. has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges of deceptive advertising and drop claims that allegedly exaggerated the health benefits of its Activia yogurt and DanActive dairy drink. These two popular Dannon products contain beneficial bacteria known as probiotics. Dannon will stop claiming that one daily serving of Activia relieves irregularity, and that DanActive helps people avoid catching colds or the flu.
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The commonly held conceptions regarding potatoes as unhealthy are basically false. Their health promoting properties are mostly unknown or ignored. Excluding French fries and potato chips, potatoes are considered super foods by some.
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Following a request from the European Commission, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on the safety and efficacy of Ronozyme® ProAct when used as a feed additive for chickens for fattening.
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Cargill's cocoa & chocolate business has unveiled the breakthrough technology behind the first chocolate to achieve an EU-approved consumer claim of "reduced calorie".
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Following a request from the European Commission, the EFSA Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies (NDA) was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on the safety of ‘phosphated distarch phosphate’.
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The German Agricultural Society has once again set up an impartial and international commission of experts who has assess the innovations submitted by EuroTier exhibitors up to the beginning of September on the basis of strict criteria and has awarded now 3 gold and 18 silver medals.
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An increasing number of foods sold in the EU bear nutrition and health claims. A nutrition claim states or suggests that a food has beneficial nutritional properties, such as “low fat”, “no added sugar” and “high in fibre”. A health claim is any statement on labels, marketing or advertising that health benefits can result from consuming a given food, for instance that a food can help reinforce the body’s natural defences or enhance learning ability.
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Tate & Lyle announces it has fully commissioned its new STA-LITE® Polydextrose line in Koog, the Netherlands.
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Ensuring consumers reap the benefits from the beneficial compounds in cocoa may mean formulating products with more sugar, suggests a new study from Kraft.
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Danisco has announced that it has extended its licensing agreement with Fonterra Cooperative Group for two probiotic bacteria cultures. Danisco’s agreement covers the production and marketing of their probiotic strains—HOWARU Bifido and Rhamnosus—with the new terms extending from five to 10 years.
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The number of products marketed as gluten-free is continuing to rise globally, with a further double-digit growth recorded in 2009 to take the total number recorded on the Innova Database to more than double the level in 2007.
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Ten months after it withdrew its marquee probiotic submissions from the European Union health claims process for reconfiguring, Danone has fully re-entered the game by lodging a tweaked dossier for its drinking yoghurt, Actimel.
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Nestlé Nutrition is launching Resource SeniorActiv, a nutritional oral supplement, to target the unique nutritional needs of the elderly. It will be introduced in 2010 in Switzerland and progressively rolled out in key European countries.
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