NEWS 12 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE October 2023 Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC) priorities for 2024-2028 have been published. As one of the partners to the world's leading feed and food producers, Anitox announced that it is committed to understanding how IFSAC's commitment to improving the coordination of federal food safety analytics efforts and addressing cross-cutting priorities for food safety data collection, analysis, and use impacts the industry. The attribution to foodborne diseases includes animal-derived food products where feeds used in the various species production systems have been identified as a vector for pathogens of human health significance such as Salmonella. The role of feed as a potential carrier for pathogens has been extensively studied, and animal feed has been associated with Salmonella contamination in more than 500 publications. Just this year, researchers at the University of Georgia conducted a comprehensive review of almost 40 publications spanning over 50 years, focusing on detecting and assessing the prevalence of Salmonella in broilers. The study analyzed data from over 40,000 samples to determine the relative contribution of various pre-harvest factors that affect Salmonella prevalence in broiler operations. The researchers identified feed as a significant factor, accounting for 4.8% of Salmonella positivity in broilers. Read more>> After a few years of absence due to COVID restrictions, Orffa Belgium NV was able to organize its seminar again for Flemish customers, a well anticipated event. According to the company's statement, the values of Orffa coincide very well with current challenges in the animal feed industry, including but not limited to: methane reduction, feed cost reduction, alternatives for antibiotics, reduction of ecological footprint, reduce energy costs during production, battle diseases through additives and improve worker’s health, the theme of this year’s seminar was “One Health”. Orffa Belgium invited several experts in their field to shed some light on different aspects. Dr. Ir. Alfons Jansman, senior researcher at Wageningen Livestock Research, focused on how to reduce nitrogen excretion by adjustments to the feed of pigs and poultry. Shannon Groen, researcher at Delft Solids Solutions, shed some light on the different techniques available to test dustiness of feed additives and feeds. Next to that she highlighted solutions to improve dustiness in order to safeguard worker’s health. Katrien D'hooghe, Managing Director of the Belgian Feed Association, gave some insight on the vast amount of topics that they are currently focusing on, to be a bridge between farmers and politics on all levels. Their 12 topics with goals to make the feed producing sector more sustainable by 2023, are very much in line with Orffa’s focus points to maintain the Ecovadis Gold recognition in years to come. Read more>> Anitox evaluates new priorities of IFSAC Orffa Belgium organizes “One Health” themed seminar for Flemish customers
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