Monday, February 21, 2011

Inclusion of natural antioxidants in aquaculture feed to be assessed

The Dibaq Group, along with a further five companies and two technology centers in the Autonomous Community of Castilla and Leon, will participate in a project for the use of natural antioxidants in animal nutrition. Dibaq's main objective is to include these natural antioxidants in the groups two business lines: aquaculture and pet feed.

"The use of natural antioxidants is of great interest for the animal nutrition sector as their is consumer demand to replace the synthetic antioxidants. The main cause is the reassessment of the physical and chemical properties of synthetic food and the approach of animal feed with functional properties," explained the Segovian company.

The Project for Regional Strategic Sectors (Primer) entitled 'Design-Based Ingredients for Natural Antioxidants and a Study Over Behavior in Various Food Matrices (Diana)', has a budget of around EUR 3.8 million and will be overseen by the Association of Food Biotechnology of Castilla and Leon (Vivartis). Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers.
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  1. Beatiful except Mr Martins,am John Fish Nutrition research scholar frm Nigeria on a study in India. Am also in working in this line of research. More grease to your effort in educating and promoting the industry. Fawole femi @ phem247@yahoo.com

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