ISSUE FOCUS FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE October 2022 63 About Evelien van Donselaar Evelien van Donselaar, Business Manager Food2Feed at Selko Feed Additives, focuses on providing practical solutions for- and creating connections within- the food and feed industry. She is responsible for Selko Revalet®, a product portfolio that reduces microbial challenges from the source, preserving nutritional value of by-products. Her animal healthcare background and extensive experience in working for innovative companies focusing on production of alternative proteins, as well as a passion for upcycling by-products, allow her to think out of the box and support the company’s purpose of Feeding the Future. yse all truck loads. The outcomes are uploaded in a database called NutriMonitor and can be a translated to nutrient and energy values using NutriCalculator based on the Dutch CVB* Feed Table. This creates an up-to-date and reliable feed ingredient matrix, enabling farmers to maximize the utilisation of by-products in feed rations. THE FUTURE OF CIRCULARITY Examples like these described here are becoming more common in the Western parts of Europe. In other, less developed, parts of the globe by-products are generally not valued nor utilised and regularly end up in landfills. Roughly one-third of the global food production is lost between field and fork. This poses a significant gap between current production and the 2050 food requirements set by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO). Connecting the food and beverage industry with the agricultural industry presents an opportunity to address the gap between today’s feed production levels and the future’s projected food requirements. Selko Feed Additives is running various initiatives in different parts of the world, in an effort to preserve valuable nutrient sources and utilise them within animal feed. As per the company’s purpose Feeding the Future, these efforts aim to produce more sustainable animal protein to feed the growing world population. Location influences where food waste occurs in the production chain. In more industrialized areas, these losses mainly occur in the chain from processor to the consumer’s plate. In more developed areas losses arise between the field and the food processors. Collaboration, thoughtful efforts to preserve nutrients and careful attention to preserving safety can help stakeholders produce safe, affordable food and help feed the future. *CVB stands for ‘Centraal Veevoerder Bureau’ and is the Dutch central bureau for feed. The core activity of CVB is to evaluate feedstuffs for farm animals and to establish energy and nutrient requirements for farm animals.
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