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UK nutritional supplement manufacturer and supplier to the animal feed industry, UFAC-UK has appointed James Hastings-Molyneux as Area Business Manager, in the latest stage of a client-focused restructuring that is transforming the dy- namics of customer-supplier relationships. James brings more than a decade of experience in the animal feeds and nutrition sector and will be covering an area encompassing the Midlands and the South East of the UK and the whole of Ireland.


Borregaard Borregaard is happy to an- nounce a new addition to its Americas Feed Additives team. Mr. David Hines joined the company on April 20, 2020 as Technical Sales Manager, responsible for the Southwestern US. David will be responsible for growing Borregaard’s feed additives business in the southwestern geography of the U.S. David is based at his home office near Houston, TX and will report to Dave Tay- lor, Area Business Manager Feed Additives, Americas.


Novus International


Dan Meagher has officially taken the helm as CEO and president at Novus International, Inc., with plans to lead the company to further success in animal nutrition. “My goal is to create one Novus: one company focused on our core strengths,” says Meagher. “We will seek new and inno- vative technologies, and we will continue to build on our history of research and development by creating more products and solutions. Our resolute vision remains to help feed the world wholesome, affordable food in a sustaina- ble manner.”


AB Vista AB Vista announces the addition of Dr. Michelle Stewart as a Technical Services team member. Dr. Stewart will focus on the monogastric business at AB Vista, supporting cus- tomers in determining how or why leg health issues evolve in the field. Since joining the AB Vista team, Dr. Stewart al- ready furthered the development of monitoring bone de- velopment from the hatchery to processing plants and hopes to reduce some causes of lameness that are costly to the industry.


There is no guarantee of feed safety when food waste is used.


Russia may begin using food waste in feed production


A draft bill allowing Russian feed com- panies to use food products that are over their “sell-by” date has been re- cently introduced by the Duma, the lower chamber of the Russian Parlia- ment. Food waste is responsible for 2.4 million tonnes of methane emis- sions per year, says Eugenia Serova, senior analyst of the Russian Higher School of Economy. Most countries in the world have strategies for properly managing food waste, but so far no such programmes have been adopted in Russia, she added. Basically, the idea is good, but there is no confidence that food waste processors will always stick to safety rules and regulations. Lyubov Savkina, commercial director of the


Russian consulting agency Feedlot told All About Feed. There is a real risk that farmed animals could be getting feed containing poor-quality or even dan- gerous constituents, and consumers will be eating food products derived from these animals, Savkina added. The processed food waste could become popular among Russian pig farmers, but the companies producing animal feed are unlikely to support the idea of using processed food waste, Vladimir Manaenkov, general director of the Eur- asia Union’s feed producers association told Russian magazine Agroinvestor. He said it must be a matter of choice for feed companies; they should not be obliged to use processed food waste.


Approval for a natural insect-based fertiliser


Ÿnsect, the French agri-tech innovation company, became the first in the world to obtain certification and marketing approval for a natural insect-based fer- tiliser. The fertiliser is derived from the excrement – or frass – of the mealworm beetle Tenebrio molitor, which feeds on cereal by-products at Ÿnsect’s factory in Dole (France). Tests show a significant increase in biomass and yield on all of the crops tested, compared to the use of a 100% chemical fertiliser. In


addition, while ensuring the delivery of essential elements for crops, the natu- ral fertiliser improves the biological properties of soils. The greenhouse tests show that microbial activity in- creases sharply in the presence of Ÿn- Frass (+180% on loamy-clay soil and + 250% on luvisol) compared to soil fertilised with a mineral fertiliser. The new fertiliser is therefore helping to in- crease the organic matter present in the soil and thus improve its texture.


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