Feed & Additive Magazine Issue 4 May 2021

NEWS FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE May 2021 19 bes reaffirmed the importance of “collaboration be- tween the public and private sector to support the key role of the livestock sector in reducing hunger and supporting livelihoods worldwide in a context of sustainable agriculture and food systems.” “The success of this meeting is a proof that FAO efforts to facilitate dialogue between the public and private sector are worthwhile and given the current COVID-19 pandemic, collaboration at internation- al level is more important than ever to ensure feed and food safety, food security and high-quality nu- trition,” said Daniela Battaglia, Animal Production Officer, Animal Production and Health Division of the FAO. Other topics discussed at the 14th IFRM included updates on the successful work of the Internation- al Cooperation for Convergence of Technical Re- quirements for the Assessment of Feed Ingredients (ICCF), which aims towards convergence of techni- cal requirements specific to feed additive/ingredient authorization across regions, as well as a presentation on the potential of insects as alternative feed sources. TOMRA Food offers safe, fault-free pet food production I n today’s increasingly com- petitive market, pet food manufacturers must ensure their products are safe, fault-free, and contain exactly what they claim. This means eradicating all traces of foreign materials and cross-contamination, and guard- ing against the naturally-occur- ring poison aflatoxin. TOMRA Food offers its world- class sorting technologies to the pet food industry. All of TOM- RA’s pet food sorting solutions are specially-tailored applications of technologies originally de- signed and developed to ensure the purity of food for human consumption. The company says the follow- ing about technologies: “All are so accurate in their detection work, and so precise in remov- ing unwanted materials from the product stream, that they mini- mize food loss, maximize yields, and can ensure attainment of pre-set protein levels. All elim- inate the traditional needs for manual inspection or rework. And all have proved capable in the toughest working conditions - wet, dry, dusty - of running reliably and performing consis- tently for 24 hours per day and seven days per week.” The TOMRA machine best-suited to pet food appli- cations is the Nimbus BSI+, a high-capacity free-fall optical sorter. This combines laser de- tection of foreign materials with TOMRA’s proprietary Biometric Signature Identification (BSI+) technology, so that it is able to de- tect materials not only according to shape, color, and size, but also by their biometric characteristics. In addition to accurately remov- ing foreign bodies from incoming raw materials, the Nimbus BSI+ can identify aflatoxin mold in food by detecting the extremely low intensity of light it reflects. TOMRA Food offers a safe and fault-free production by optical sorting technologies for pet food producers.