Phibro Aqua company profile

Phibro Aqua is a division of Phibro Animal Health Corporation, a diversified global developer and manufacturer of a broad range of animal health and nutrition products for the poultry, swine, cattle, dairy and aquaculture markets.

Growing worldwide demand for high quality protein, combined with expanding human populations and decreasing wild stocks of fish, assures an increased future dependence on aquaculture products and technologies.

The challenge is to develop profitable and sustainable aquaculture practices which will implement advanced technologies. These technologies will allow aquaculture to make a significant contribution to future supplies of aquatic products.

Phibro Aqua has developed a strong team of fish health specialists and scientists with a focus on providing the global aquaculture industry with cost effective health management solutions in order to maximize the productivity of their customer’s farms. This Phibro Aqua team brings customers a full range of expertise in production and operation, fish health management, disease diagnosis and vaccination.

Phibro Aqua operates comprehensive Research and Development facilities. These facilities include a large scale wet lab for clinical evaluation of fish vaccines, medication and feed additives. Phibro Aqua's lab includes a full diagnostic service addressing parasitology, bacteriology, histopathology and molecular-biology.

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Using supplemental amino acids to lower protein levels in Jian carp diets

by Juyun He, Karthik Masagounder and Mingchun Ren

It has been a common practice in the swine and poultry industries to reduce dietary crude protein (CP) levels with the use of supplemental amino acids while following an ideal protein concept (Htoo et al., 2007; Berres et al., 2010; Powell et al., 2011; Wu, 2014).

In fish species such as rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) (Gaylord & Barrows, 2009) and Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) (Botaro et al., 2007), low-protein diets with limiting essential amino acids (EAA) supplementation did not negatively affect growth performance, while showing environmental benefits (Liu et al. 2009).
 

Using the diets formulated with fishmeal as the main protein source and methionine supplementation showed that dietary protein levels higher than 34.1 percent is not needed for juvenile Jian carp, a variant of the common carp (Cyprinus carpio). Common carp contributes towards ~50 percent of the total annual production of farmed carp (Ji et al., 2015).

Commercial feed samples (n=39) of juvenile common carp collected in China during 2018-2019 showed high dietary protein levels (~36%). Evonik, in collaboration with Dr Mingchun Ren of the Freshwater Fisheries Research Centre CAFS (FFRC), wanted to investigate the effects of increasing EAA supplementation on the success of sparing intact protein sources and reducing dietary protein levels in juvenile Jian carp, based on growth and nitrogen utilisation.

Read more, HERE.

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Ottevanger Milling Engineers company profile

 

Ottevanger Milling Engineers is a leading European company in the design and manufacture of equipment and complete installations for the grain-processing and mixed-feed industries.

Food producers throughout the world use these installations to produce food for people and animals. In modern, well-equipped plants in Aalten and Moerkapelle (The Netherlands) Ottevanger's specialists use the latest technologies to design and manufacture a comprehensive range of products.

Computer-controlled plants – anywhere in the world – are provided with on-line technical support from these plants. In its design of any installation Ottevanger takes into account the strictest environmental regulations and safety requirements.

There are, for example, always adequate facilities for air purification as well as sound and heat insulation. A lot of attention is also devoted to hygiene through the use of stainless steel and special coatings.

Thanks to its expert knowledge and expertise, amassed throughout its over one hundred years' experience, Ottevanger is the ideal partner for the implementation of your project.

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