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Animal Feed and Animal-Derived Food Safety
To ensure the health and performance of animals, it is essential to maintain the quality and safety of animal feed. However, during its production, processing, transportation, storage, and use, feed can become contaminated by various biological and non-biological factors. Contaminants such as heavy metals and mycotoxins can, through the food chain, make their way into the human diet, posing significant health risks. BioVenic offers a range of solutions to address the concerns of animal feed and animal-derived food consumers, aiming to enhance the safety of both feed and food products.
Animal Feed Safety Solution
We prioritize the safety of animal feed ingredients, feed additives, concentrated feeds, complete feeds, and silage. Given the factors that influence digestibility, health, and immunity, we offer a variety of feed testing methods to improve understanding and control feed safety across various animal types.
Mycotoxins, including aflatoxins, ochratoxins, fumonisins, trichothecenes, zearalenone, and patulin, are naturally occurring toxins produced by certain fungi. These toxins not only reduce feed intake but also negatively impact animal health to varying degrees. Our solutions provide an extensive range of detection methods for different mycotoxins in feed.
Anti-nutritional factors (ANFs) from certain plants can inhibit nutrient digestibility and prevent optimal utilization of feed nutrients. We offer a variety of testing options for common ANFs, such as protease inhibitors, lectins, phenolic compounds, glycosides, oxalate, phytate, and alkaloids. These tests facilitate the study of ANFs in feed, aiming to minimize their negative impact on animal nutrition and health.
- Harmful Microorganisms
Feed can be contaminated by harmful microorganisms during production, processing, transportation, and storage. These microorganisms not only reduce the nutritional value of the feed but can also cause animal diseases. Our testing platform provides multiple methods for both qualitative and quantitative testing of harmful microorganisms in feed.
- Pesticide Residues
Pesticides are extensively used to control pests like insects, rodents, weeds, bacteria, mold, and fungus in food production. Pesticides used in growing feed for farm animals can be harmful to both wild animals and human health. Our pesticide residue analysis methods enable researchers to detect if the pesticide residues in animal feed exceed acceptable limits.
- Environmental Contaminants
Environmental contaminants such as heavy metals and chemical pollutants can enter the animal food supply through harvesting, transportation, storage, and other processes within the feed supply chain, adversely affecting animal health. Our solutions offer highly sensitive detection methods suited for various environmental contaminants.
- Genetically Modified Organisms
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are plants, animals, or microbes altered using genetic engineering techniques. In the United States, GMO crops such as soybeans, corn, sugar beets, canola, and cotton constitute a large percentage of the crop production. Identifying GMO ingredients helps uphold consumers' "right to know" about their animal feed. Our solutions aid in the identification of GMO components in feeds.
Animal-Derived Food Safety Solution
Meat, milk, dairy products, and eggs are essential sources of proteins, vitamins, and minerals in the human diet. However, these foods can be compromised by contaminants such as mycotoxins and their metabolites, veterinary drug residues, hormone residues, heavy metals, allergens, and other harmful substances. They may also suffer from artificial adulteration, posing significant risks to food safety. To address these issues, we offer comprehensive quality testing services tailored to various types of animal products.
Meat quality encompasses both its characteristics and safety. The nutritional composition, flavor, and safety parameters vary among different types of meat. We provide specialized analyses for meats such as beef, pork, chicken, lamb, fish, and seafood. Our testing services cover not only nutrient content but also the detection of contaminants like mycotoxins, harmful microorganisms, heavy metals, and other substances that may affect human health.
Milk's appearance, nutritional content, and flavor can vary significantly depending on its animal source. It is rich in proteins, carbohydrates, fats, calcium, iron, and vitamins. Our Milk Quality Analysis solutions detect nutrients in milk and related products, assess bioactive components like enzymes, hormones, and growth factors, and measure safety indicators to manage dairy animal nutrition, health, and product quality control.
Poultry eggs are a vital protein source in the human diet, and their quality reflects poultry nutrition and health. Our Poultry Egg Quality Analysis solutions examine proteins, cholesterol, vitamins, and minerals in various poultry eggs. We also provide comprehensive safety analyses, including tests for veterinary drug residues, antibiotic residues, and mycotoxins.
Feed and Food Safety Assay Development
The safety of animal feed directly impacts the health and performance of animals and, by extension, the safety of human food. Our testing and development platform can create rapid assays to detect factors affecting feed and food safety, such as mycotoxins, allergens, harmful microorganisms, anti-nutritional factors, veterinary drug residues, hormone residues, and heavy metals. This helps to enhance testing accuracy and efficiency.
- Immunoassays
Immunoassays leverage antigen-antibody reactions to offer high sensitivity and simplicity compared to traditional methods. We offer a range of off-the-shelf products for feed and food safety immunoassays and continually develop new ones. Common immunoassays include ELISA and LFD. While ELISA can perform both qualitative and quantitative detection, LFD stands out for its quick and portable testing capabilities.
- PCR-Based Assays
PCR-based methods are widely used for detecting harmful microorganisms and components of biological origin. Using specific nucleic acid information, we can develop custom test kits for qualitative or quantitative PCR detection of harmful microorganisms. PCR-based methods are also essential for identifying GMO ingredients, verifying feed ingredient sources, and detecting adulteration in animal-derived food.
Animal Feed and Animal-Derived Food Safety Service Workflow
Why Choose Us?
Comprehensive Solutions
For both animal feed and animal-derived food, we offer an all-encompassing solution that assesses not only nutritional content but also conducts various tests for factors affecting safety.
Tailored Recommendations
Recognizing that different types of animal feeds or animal-derived foods come with distinct nutrient profiles and safety concerns, our expert technical team can recommend the most suitable solutions tailored to your research needs.
Custom Test Development
Our test development services specialize in creating customized immunoassays for the detection of mycotoxins, harmful microorganisms, heavy metals, anti-nutritional factors, allergens, and other components, thereby enhancing the applicability and precision of detection methods.
The safety of animal feed and animal-derived food is pivotal not only for animal health and performance but also for human health. This is a crucial research area in animal nutrition and feed studies. BioVenic's Animal Feed and Animal-Derived Food Safety solutions integrate advanced detection technologies for mycotoxins, anti-nutritional factors, allergens, heavy metals, GMO ingredients, harmful microorganisms, veterinary drug residues, pesticide residues, and other crucial safety factors. We offer a variety of detection methods for animal feed and animal-derived foods—including meat, poultry eggs, and milk—and can also develop new detection methods tailored to these factors. If you are interested in our Animal Feed and Animal-Derived Food Safety solutions, please contact us. We look forward to understanding your research needs and providing a tailored solution that meets your specific requirements.