dsm-firmenich has announced the expansion of its swine portfolio by launching its new adaptative nutrition concept. This new approach accounts for changes in nutritional needs of pigs from a qualitative perspective. Additionally, the company will be launching Verax™ DBS Analytics service to help swine producers assess the vitamin D3 status of their animals.
dsm-firmenich, one of the leading innovators in health, nutrition, and beauty, has unveiled the launch of a new adaptative nutrition concept to support the profitability, welfare, and sustainability of fattening pigs.
Nowadays, pork producers are having to keep pace with rapidly improving genetics with a greater propensity for growth and lean meat gain while adapting management practices to be more sustainable by shifting towards preventative health in form of vaccinations and feeding less nutrient dense feed to avoid excessive environmental excretion. This shift towards bigger, leaner fattening pigs can trigger challenges with immunity competency and bone structure development if nutrition is not adapted accordingly, states dsm-firmenich.
The company noted that adaptive nutrition is a new approach that accounts for changes in nutritional needs of pigs from a qualitative perspective by considering the allocation of nutrients between various physiological functions that are in potential competition with each other, such as muscle deposition, immune competency, and bone health.
“Pressing issues that producers face such as reduced performance, SINS, ear and tail necrosis, lameness and mortality can be associated with sub-optimal levels of circulating macro and micronutrients, such as vitamin D3,” explained Dr. Maria Walsh, head of marketing swine at dsm-firmenich. “There’s a real opportunity for producers to unleash their pigs’ full potential by monitoring their herds’ level of bioavailable vitamin D3 and ensuring that it is sufficient to achieve full performance.”
As part of the new adaptive nutrition concept, dsm-firmenich announced that it is launching its Verax™ DBS Analytics service to help swine producers assess the vitamin D3 status of their animals and provide customized recommendations of how to improve it.
The researchers at dsm-firmenich have employed cutting-edge transcriptomic and AI technology often used in disease diagnosis and personalized medicine to develop a new innovative solution in the form of MaxiFicientTM Boost GF, a functional solution which is designed to improve efficiency and saleable meat while avoiding issues related to lameness or immunity, the company added.
