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The power of nutrition for the industry in Asia Nutrients, ingredients, postbiotics and back to basics at dsm-firmenich’s 28th Aqua Conference Evolu&on Asia Pacific. of ingredient assessment: Shi6ing priori&es in the 21st
century etting the scene for an audience of 150, comprising Revolving around the “Power of Nutrition”, this one-day
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mainly of feed millers, aquaculture producers and conference, held in Bangkok, Thailand on November 21, 2023, covered industry developments, from shifting industry around Asia, dsm-firmenich’s Dr Bre;leaders Glencross, Technical Director IFFOAchyuth (Marine Ingredients OrganisaCon) and Honorary Iyengar, Regional Marketing Director, Nutritional Products priorities in ingredient assessments, quality shrimp feed Professor at the SCrling, Scotland, approached byon looking at diet and antiproductionthe andabove, back tofirst basics carbohydrates APAC, analysed theUniversity competitive of forces shaping the shrimp nutritional factors and gut specificaCons health with postbiotics. formulaCons. and then to design in terms of industry in Asia. This requires knowing the requirements
feed composiCon. “We then marry that up with an ingredient database. In a feed formulaCon
“Traditionally, it has been the power of suppliers, but in the Shrimp protease matrix calculator interface, we manage twohas setshappened. of informaCon: nutrients Thereand wasingredients.” a launch for the shrimp protease matrix last three years, an imbalance It is now the power of buyers. While major suppliers, Ecuador, India, calculator. In introducing this innovation, Chiow Yen Liew, Southeast Asia, and China, bring in 3.5 million tonnes, Regional Marketing Aqua, asked the audience to visualise Important too are the different types of constraints, such as raw material tolerances, processing demand from North America, Europe, China, and Japan is the environmental benefits when there is a cleaving of parameters, quality andthere prices. “Fundamentally, art and of science of the bonds formulaCon protein andthe hydrolysis the peptide with the only at 3 million tonnes.expectaCons Within suppliers, is intense protease Ronozyme® ProAct, which increases protein competition, the CAGR of 25% in Latin America and shift of process is how can I deliver the best feed at the least risk.” exports to China markets, from 100% to 80%, is significant digestion across a range of feed ingredients and reduces from a strategic perspective,” said Iyengar, adding that new adverse effects of anti-nutritional factors, thereby reducing entrants bring new challenges for Asia’s top producers - feed costs. Precision nutriAon approach India, Vietnam, and Indonesia. Diet formulaCons are no longer based on ingredientsShe butadded on nutrients. Glencross illustrated this with that the matrix value allows the quantification a modern formulaCon the Asian seabass 1).the In precision specificaCons change contributionnutriCon, from protein digestibility. The benefits The message was that thefor industry cannot control (Figure much of include the least can cost be and innovative but can act onstages what itand can pellet and utilise for different sizestechnology and eightbefore different specificaCons applied over multi-objective the being caught unaware in this current VUCA (volatility, formulations, which provide efficient utilisation, digestion, producCon cycle of this fish (from first feeding to 5kg harvest size). Secondly, digesCble levels are uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) environment. “The absorption, and assimilation of protein. The reduction of fixed but crudeisorusing grossexpanders levels vary. Thirdly, as the changes and there a different feed nitrogensize in feed waste is crucial foristhe environment. This poultry industry more and more, as animal’s is also part of the quality control process for raw materials. well thethe power of enzymes in their operations better size as and protein: energy dynamics willfor also change. digestibility. With post-pelleting liquid applications, dsmfirmenich is testing out pilot-scale applications to match This user-friendly platform allows for inputs on raw material information, such to asunderstand digestibilitythe data for the operations inused, the feed before commercial “Forpelleting every ingredient wemill need to have digesCbility data. Then we need adoption. There is also SustellTM, the data platform to essential amino acids (EAAs) and non-essential amino requirements for all (amino acids and fa`y acids) and not just a generalisaCon of protein and accurately measure the environmental footprint of farming acids digestibility (NEAAs). It then tabulates values energy.” and feed production. This is the differentiation tool for your automatically based on the dietary protein content operations, which helps to realise your targets such as of different diets and processing conditions. Some examples of shrimp protease matrix values were 30-31% carbon and footprint reduction.” protein digestibility improvements for soybean meal and 26% for full-fat soybean meal.
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