SPECIAL STORY 78 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE September 2023 optimize animal health and welfare, animal performance and food quality and waste. Nutrition programmes for farm animals, including vitamin supplements, need to be adjusted in a manner consistent with improved animal management techniques, new health challenges and genetic development which have supported the feed industry to achieve annual productivity improvements of +1-2%. Testing different levels of individual vitamins as well as combination of all vitamins versus current vitamin blends used by the industry seem to be a consistent strategy to review and adjust optimal use of vitamins in feed. Once vitamin levels are defined, maximum attention must be paid to the use of the right vitamin product forms. This would avoid jeopardizing decisions taken by nutritionists to optimize animal health and production cost of foods of animal origin (meat/egg/ milk/fish) with products which might not be stable enough or mixed properly in premix or feed. It is more essential than ever that nutritionists and purchasers engage in an ongoing dialogue to advance more sustainable farming and improve farmer profitability. About Gilberto Litta Gilberto Litta, an Italian national, holds a degree in Agronomy and Animal Science from the Catholic University in Piacenza, bringing almost 40 years of experience in the field of animal nutrition. He started working at the University as scientist and then moved to industry, joining Roche-dsm-firmenich in 1996, holding various roles in sales, technical support and marketing. About José-María Hernández José-María Hernández is a Spanish national holding a Degree in Veterinary Medicine and Masters in Exec-MBA and Marketing and Commercial Management. Close to 35 years in the feed industry, he joined Roche-dsm-firmenich in 1989 and had different technical, commercial and marketing positions in EMEA and Global (Poultry) Business and Category (Vitamins, Carotenoids) management in Spain, Switzerland as well as GM in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. Figure 5b. Potential CO2 emission savings coming from different vitamins product forms (Source: dsm-firmenich data, 2022, unpublished)
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