Feed & Additive Magazine Issue 47 December 2024

NEWS 14 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE December 2024 Cargill scooped two of the nine awards presented at Fi Europe’s Innovation Awards, which took place on November 19, 2024, at Fi Europe in Frankfurt, Germany, celebrating food and beverage innovations across categories ranging from dairy alternatives to pet food innovation. The company was recognized in the newly created Pet Food Innovation Award for its ultra-concentrated TruPet™ postbiotic, which unlocks gut health, immunity, and vitality benefits by nourishing a rich gut microbiome. For just a fraction of one percent of a finished product formula, Cargill pointed out that TruPet™ can help pet food brands innovate and differentiate because it retains efficacy through modern pet food processing conditions like retort, extrusion, and high-pressure, avoiding microorganism survivability challenges experienced with other health ingredients. Dr. Mark Franklin from Cargill explained, “The pet food industry has undergone a massive transformation in recent years. Pet parents now have more nutrition choices than ever and are adopting a ‘good for me, good for my pet’ mindset. To meet rapidly evolving consumer demands, Cargill’s TruPet™ ultra-concentrated postbiotic is a single ingredient that supports multiple health benefits that consumers highly value.” Read more>> Hybrid flow-through systems (HFS) have the potential to transform the aquaculture industry and salmon farming in particular. According to a recent study by RaboResearch, the technology promises to enhance sustainability, boost salmon supply, and improve biosecurity, addressing some of the industry’s most pressing challenges. Hybrid flow-through systems technology is emerging as a viable solution to help salmon farmers meet fast rising demand. It reportedly significantly reduces exposure to pathogens and environmental impacts, offering notable improvements in biosecurity and sustainability. “The limitation of the current, marine cage-based industry is the inability to sufficiently grow supply. Despite being highly technically advanced, Norwegian salmon farming experienced increasing levels of mortality in both 2023 and 2024,” notes Gorjan Nikolik, Senior Analyst – Seafood for RaboResearch. The cause was a combination of lice treatments, which have the side effect of reducing the protective layer on a salmon’s scales, and exposure to bacterial infections and jellyfish stings resulting from that eroded protective layer. HFS aquaculture is one of the alternatives that can change this situation materially. By moving farming into contained basins on the shore, it is possible to exclude most pathogens, such as lice, bacteria, algae, and jellyfish. This minimizes the need for medication, resulting in faster growth rates and better feed-conversion ratios. “Early data shows feed-conversion ratios of 1.1 on HFS farms compared to an industry average of 1.3. These results, combined with a survival rate of 97% compared to 83% for the net pen industry, suggest that biological performance on HFS farms is superior,” explains Nikolik. Read more>> Cargill honoured for postbiotic pet food ingredient RaboResearch: Hybrid flow-through systems can transform aquaculture

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