Feed & Additive Magazine Issue 3 April 2021

NEWS 18 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE April 2021 A lltech announced that Dr. Saheed Salami , a research fellow at the company, was ap- pointed to United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization global expert working group. “As a global leader in animal nutrition and health, Alltech is pleased to announce the appoint- ment of Dr. Saheed Salami, a re- search fellow at the company, to the United Nations Food and Ag- riculture Organization (FAO) as a member of its Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on methane for the FAO Livestock Environmental As- sessment and Performance (LEAP) Partnership,” the company said in a statement. As part of this work- ing group, Dr. Salami and other in- dustry experts will focus on revis- ing methane assessment guidelines to enhance greenhouse gas (GHG) emission inventories and to im- prove carbon footprint assessments and strategies for low-carbon live- stock and food security. “I have dedicated my education and career to research in agriculture and sustainability and am looking forward to continuing my journey as part of the technical advisory group on methane,” said Dr. Salami. Evonik makes follow-on investment into In Ovo To support launch of gender-testing machine for eggs, Evonik has made a follow-on investment into Netherlands-based start-up In Ovo. The technology enables egg producers to avoid killing of male chicks, which is prohibited from 2022 in Germany. E vonik has made a follow-up investment in the biotechnology start-up In Ovo through its venture capital unit. The investment comes as the young company reaches the commercialization stage for its technology and is bringing its gender-testing machine for eggs to the market. Together with co-in- vestor VisVires New Protein Capital, Evonik Venture Capital has provided several million euros in further funding. Evonik Venture Capital first invested in the Leiden, Netherlands-based company in 2018, pro- viding support for a technology that helps solve one of the egg industry’s biggest ethical problems. The German government has now introduced leg- islation mandating that no chicks are culled after January 1, 2022. In Germany alone, an estimated 40 million day-old male chicks from laying-hen hatcheries are killed annually, and the global figure is thought to be about 6.5 billion. Poultry farms don’t rear the male animals because they can neither lay eggs nor grow sufficiently for meat production. In Ovo developed a method for determining the sex in the egg that is particularly fast and reliable and can be readily integrated into the workflow of large hatcheries. In Ovo’s first gender typing ma- chine has been screening eggs at high speed, in a commercial hatchery, since December. The first 150,000 chicks, which will produce more than 50 million eggs in their lifetime, have been hatched without any chick culling. Alltech research fellow appointed to FAO global expert working group