Lallemand Animal Nutrition presented an innovative study on piglet maturity during this week’s Porcine Research Days in Paris (Journées de la Recherche Porcine 2010). This study defined a set of criteria to assess piglet maturity at birth. This new tool can help farmers evaluate future performance of newborn piglets and assist in reducing their [...]

This year, Lallemand Animal Nutrition held its annual swine technical meeting in Denmark, the world’s largest pork exporter. Around 150 participants from the pig and feed industries in Denmark, Germany, France, Poland and the rest of Europe as well as Brazil and the US, gathered near Vejle, on the East coast of Jutland, to discuss [...]

Lallemand Animal Nutrition’s is now authorized to market its probiotic yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae CNCM I-1077 (Levucell® SC20 and Levucell® SC 10ME, a micro encapsulated form for inclusion in pelleted feed), in the European Union as a ‘digestibility enhancer’ in horses.
This new authorization of Levucell® SC use is the acknowledgement by the European Authority that [...]

Clostridia, or butyric bacteria, contamination in silage is always a source of financial loss for the farmer, either due to dry matter loss or even financial penalties on milk prices in certain cheese-making areas. A recently published study (Borreani et al., Journal of Applied Microbiol., 2009) shows that, even when the analysis of fresh silage [...]

FEEDAP, the scientific experts panel of EFSA, the European Food Safety Authority, has rendered its opinion concerning two new authorization dossiers for probiotic Bactocell (Pediococcus acidilactici MA 18/5M ) in aquaculture applications. The two scientific opinions were published on April 29th, 2009.
The first dossier concerns the use of Bactocell as a zootechnical feed additive for [...]