Kai-Jens Kühlmann

Potassium diformate has been shown in numerous trials to improve health and performance in piglets, growing-finishing pigs and sows. It is furthermore the only zootechnical additive with EU-approval for use throughout the whole pig production chain. The effects of potassium diformate (KDF) are often described as strong antimicrobial and digestibility enhancing. Most of the data available on the us ...

INTRODUCTION Organic acids have been used for decades in commercial compound feeds, mostly in feed preservation, where formic and propionic acids are particularly effective. In the European Union, these two organic acids and a number of others (lactic, citric, fumaric and sorbic acids) and their salts (e.g. calcium formate, calcium propionate) are used under the classification ‘feed pre ...

AbstractRaw industrial fish caught in SE-Asia for fishmeal processing decays quickly under tropical climate conditions and leads to lower protein quality. Therefore, it often needs to be supplemented with expensive fishmeal imports by the local feed industry. The effectiveness of potassium diformate (Fishform Plus®, KDF) as a preservative for industrial fish had been tested during a two-week o ...

Pond production of intensively farmed white-leg shrimps, Litopenaeus vannamei (Boone, 1931), exceeded 2 million t in Central America and Southeast Asia in 2007, achieved through high-quality shrimp-feed supply in modern aquaculture. Despite progress in shrimp nutrition and new feed formulation strategies in recent years, disease outbreaks caused by pathogenic bacteria in shrimp ponds often result ...

Introduction Although antibiotic growth promoters in the diets of fish may promote growth and improve feed conversion and survival rates, public concern over cross-resistance to humans led to a ban on the use of such substances in the EU. Research has thus turned to other feed additives to maintain performance and high survival rates in aquaculture. Organic acids and their salts are seen as an al ...

Tests prove the effect of potassium diformate on the quality of fish under tropical conditionsAlmost one-third of the world fish harvest is not used for direct human consumption, but is converted into fish meal or fish oil for further application in animal feed. Of the 75 million tons of fish about 25 million tonnes is therefore handled and processed in other ways than fresh, frozen, smoked or can ...