Orffa Belgium NV has reorganized its seminar, a well anticipated event for its Flemish customers, after a few years. The theme of this year’s seminar was “One Health”.
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, since the values of Orffa coincide very well with current challenges in the animal feed industry like, 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.
Apart from external speakers, the company also made use of its in-house knowledge by having two Central Technical Management members present on Orffa products in relation to one health and sustainability. Lien Vande Maele presented the importance of selenium, an essential trace element, in human health. Hereby the focus was put on the importance of a health daily intake but also the importance of consuming the correct form of selenium like present in Excential Selenium4000. Finally, Aurélie Montagnon, their French colleague, gave a presentation in Dutch on the different products within the Orffa portfolio that can be used to reduce feed cost (Excential Energy Plus) and improve worker’s health (Excential Selenium4000 and Elovitals MIKU).
