NEWS FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE May 2023 73 Axitan, the UK biotech company focused on the elimination of antibiotics from animal feed, announced the appointments of two new senior members, Dr Richard Lewis as a Senior Scientist to Axitan’s UK R&D division and Alex Diffley as Manufacturing Manager in its US Tech Transfer centre. In the UK, Dr Richard Lewis joins Axitan’s R&D team as a Senior Scientist. Axitan’s R&D team is currently developing a library of endolysins, and complementary technologies, able to target and safely destroy, specific pathogens that impact livestock farming which have historically been managed through antibiotic supplementation in animal feed. The first bacteria to have been successfully targeted by the Company is Clostridium perfringens. Clostridium perfringens causes necrotic enteritis which accounts for $6B of economic loss each year in the poultry industry. Axitan’s R&D team is led by Axitan’s CSO, Dr Francisco Navarro, and is advised by Professor Saul Purton, a leading authority on algal biotech. At Axitan, Dr Richard Lewis will oversee the building out of Axitan’s endolysin library and associated product pipeline, contributing intellectually to the new product development process. He has over 20 years’ experience in biotech, which spans both academia and industry, having originally obtained his doctorate in biochemistry from Oxford University in 1999. Dr Lewis held several post-doctoral research positions at leading universities in the UK prior to being appointed Senior Research Scientist at the Francis Crick Institute (2014-18). He joins from Demuris where he was Senior Research Scientist and IP Officer. Read more>> Axitan expands its UK and US operations with key hires Sensient® Colors, a division of Sensient Technologies, announced a major advancement in natural colour for pet foods. For many years, pet food manufacturers have been frustrated by the lack of cost-effective natural green colours for AAFCO-Natural pet food products. Shades of green that cue wellness and naturalness are highly desirable in pet kibble and treat formulations. Green hues from natural colour sources have historically posed particular challenges though. Due to the scarcity of pet-friendly, green botanical sources in nature, the current market offerings of natural green are either cost-prohibitive or controversial with regulatory guidelines. Sensient’s continued focus on natural colour innovation for pet food manufacturers has finally led to a vibrant solution. Sensient’s new Vertafine delivers bright green shades at good cost-in-use targets that will enable brands to deliver on growing consumer demand for natural colours from botanical sources in pet food. Read more>> Sensient® Colors launches natural green colour for pet food
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