Evonik Launches AMINODat® 6.0 Feed Raw Material Database with New Features Evonik’s AMINODat ® 6.0 is a database for feed raw materials that is up to date at all times and that the company claims is more comprehensive than any other offer available to the feed industry. Based on this database, feeds for livestock can be formulated with even greater precision. “If we want to feed farm animals healthily, in an efficient way and at the same time conserve natural resources, we have to know the feed raw materials being used very well,” says Dr. Emmanuel Auer, head of the Animal Nutrition business line at Evonik. Evonik Animal Nutrition has been conducting raw material analyses for decades and supports its customers with the processed data. These data were previously consolidated and made available every five years in printed form and as an interactive software. With AMINODat® 6.0, they are now available in shorter intervals as a web application. “This means that we can support our customers with updates several times a year,” says Dr. Markus Wiltafsky-Martin, who is responsible for service development at Evonik Animal Nutrition. Raw material qualities are highly variable due to different growing, drying and storage conditions. Wiltafsky-Martin says, “All these factors vary not only from season to season, but also from region to region. That’s why we don’t report only global averages, but country-specific values.” The analyses are based on raw material samples that Evonik receives from customers all over the world. AMINODat® 6.0 comprises more than 900,000 analytical results from over 18,000 samples of more than 500 raw materials. In addition to the amino acid and proximate content of raw materials, AMINODat® 6.0 provides: • a complete set of amino acid digestibility coefficients which had been updated and extended by Evonik’s experts,
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• fatty acid profiles of raw materials as a new feature, • quality parameters like anti-nutritional factors, protein solubility and content of reactive Lysine which indicate the degree of heat processing, • biogenic amines, which play an important role in the evaluation of animal by-products and silages, • l a t e s t r e v i s e d a m i n o a c i d recommendations for poultry, swine and aqua.
BA S F A n i m a l N u t r i t i o n Launches Digital Solution O p t e i n i cs f o r M o r e Sustainable Feed and Animal Protein Production Opteinics is a sustainability analytics platform, integrated to industry-standard feed formulation software, that enables even non-experts in sustainability to independently understand and reduce environmental impact. Currently, animal feed formulation focuses almost exclusively on fulfilling the nutritional requirements of the animal at the minimum cost possible. With the addition of the environmental impact as a third dimension, Opteinics opens a new opportunity for a more sustainable feed and animal protein production, at the best price possible. Nutritionists and formulators are now empowered to make reasoned choices when designing feed, for the benefit of the environment. Thus, customer organizations profit from significantly reduced time and resource investment when innovating in their product portfolio, obtaining data for sustainability reporting, or communicating environmental impact reduction to customers and other stakeholders. Opteinics draws its environmental impact datasets from globally accepted databases and its models are designed in accordance to the latest ISO, FAO LEAP and PEF standards. Additionally, the platform is
currently undergoing a neutral, third-party verification. BASF Animal Nutrition is a leader in sustainability assessments and life cycle analysis (LCA) in the animal protein industry. Since their first project in 1996, BASF have completed hundreds of EcoEfficiency and LCA studies. With Opteinics, they aim to increase their reach even further. As a scalable solution, Opteinics empowers organizations in the feed and animal production industries to independently understand and reduce their environ-mental impact, without time and cost-intensive consultancy studies.
AB Vista Launches Online Dietary Fibre Calculator to Help Nutritionists Optimise Animal Diets AB Vista has launched a free tool to assist nutritionists as they formulate animal diets. The dietary fibre calculator uses average values of global raw materials to calculate the dietary fibre content (plus other more in-depth fibre parameters) of finished animal feed. The calculator offers the option of entering up to 28 different raw materials, along with the daily total intake in kg, to show the fibre composition of the feed and the daily fibre intake in either a data or graphic view. Xaviere Rousseau, AB Vista Global Technical Support Manager, says: “As feed additive specialists, we know that the role of fibre in monogastric diets can be misunderstood and that achieving the optimum fibre fraction can be challenging, even for experienced nutritionists. “We have designed this calculator to be a straightforward, easy to access way to assess the total dietary fibre content of finished feed.” The parameters within the calculator represent the values that are available within AB Vista’s new Dietary Fibre analysis service, part of the company’s comprehensive NIR offering.
