High-quality feed is of enormous importance for the health of farm animals as well as pets or hobby animals. As the feed industry is strongly related to the food industry, equally high standards apply here to ensure feed safety.
The feed industry consists of various branches, such as the manufacturers of individual or compound feeds, additive suppliers, the trade, logistics trades or importers. In addition, the food industry also plays a role, whose by-products can also be raw materials for animal feed.
To ensure consistently high quality in terms of nutrient content, microbiological safety and freedom from undesirable substances, regular laboratory tests are essential. This is the only way to ensure that animals receive the feed they need.
Performance-oriented and environmentally sound animal nutrition requires the optimum use of the available feedstuffs. To ensure that animals are supplied with the feed they need, detailed knowledge of the ingredients and quality properties of the feed is just as essential as knowledge of the nutritional and physiological processes in the animal.
Our feed experts are your competent contacts for all these topics. You can find more information on the feeds that can be analyzed here:
Optimal nutrition of farm animals as well as pets requires knowledge about the requirements of nutrients, value-giving ingredients and energy.
We offer nutrient analysis for all types of feed. From the analyzed nutrients, the energetic feed value of the feeds can be determined according to the applicable feed legislation.
The standard feed value analysis (among others Weender analysis) is based on the determination of the following components:
Minerals are vital substances that the organism cannot produce itself. We test feed for calcium (Ca), potassium (K), magnesium (Mg), phosphorus (P), sodium (Na), chlorine (Cl), sulfur (S) cobalt (Co), iron (Fe), copper (Cu), manganese (Mn), molybdenum (Mo), selenium (Se) and silicon (Si).
Vitamins are needed in the organism for vital functions. They must be taken in with food. Vitamins are divided into fat-soluble vitamins (e.g. A, E, D and K) and fat-insoluble vitamins (B vitamins, vitamin C, niacin, folic acid, pantothenic acid and biotin), although there are no uniform chemical structures.
In addition, there are individual substances that have a vitamin character. Taurine for the nutrition of cats is to be mentioned here.
We will gladly advise you on the analysis of the vitamin and mineral content in your feed!
Contaminants are chemical substances that have not been intentionally added to feed. Such substances may enter feed at various stages of production, processing or transport, or may be the result of environmental contamination. Contaminants can pose a risk to human and animal health.
In addition, feed can also be contaminated by microorganisms that affect the quality of the feed (e.g. spoilage) and subsequently have a negative effect on the health of the animal. Microbiological testing therefore includes the following main points of investigation:
Sampling of the drinking water is carried out by our employees, who are listed as samplers for drinking water under the "Animal Welfare Initiative".
The analysis of the water includes a microbiological and a chemical-physical test.
The subsequent evaluation of the results is based on the assessment values of the "Initiative Tierwohl" and the orientation framework for the feed law assessment "Hygienic Quality of Drinking Water" of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture.
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