Danisco Animal Nutrition To Discuss Impact of Gut Health on Poultry and Pig Producer Profitability at VIV Asia and Avian Gut Health 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand

Dr Ajay Awati, a Senior Scientist at the animal nutrition division of DuPont Industrial Biosciences, will present two talks designed to help producers in Asia improve profitability and food safety through healthy nutrition.

On March 10 at 1.50pm Dr Awati, a qualified vet and doctor of Animal Sciences, will pose the question “Do enzymes play a role in gut health?” at Avian Gut Health 2015.. His presentation will examine:

· The role that feed additives - and feed enzymes in particular - have played in achieving healthy, profitable performance through improved feed conversion since the 1960s.
· Recent research that shows the negative impact that undigested nutrients have, not only on the rate at which the bird grows, but also in terms of undesirable shifts in its gut microbiota.
· The negative effect of production stress on gut microbiota balance and how feed enzymes can address this imbalance.
· The latest evidence indicating that feed enzymes can not only be used to reduce the amount of undigested substrate in the gut but also to deliver proftability benefits that compare favourably with those achieved through in-feed antibiotic application.

Using feed additives such as enzymes to reduce dependence on in feed antibiotics is also the subject of Dr Awati’s second talk at The Pork Production Summit held at 12 noon on 11 March at Viv Asia. In this presentation, entitled “Effects of feed additives beyond performance: vital pieces of the profitability jigsaw in an era of reduced antibiotic growth promoter usage”, he will again look at the impact of diet, production stress and other factors on gut health. He will then point to new research conducted in Asia that shows how feed enzymes - in combination with other additives such as essential oils - can enhance producer profitability while reducing dependence on in-feed antibiotics.

Dr. Awati commented, “The role of enzymes and other feed additives in providing a viable replacement for in-feed antibiotics without impacting healthy growth performance has been acknowledged by Klassing, Choct, Pluske and others. In my talks, I will uncover new research that shows how combinations of enzymes and other feed additives can increase profitability while also improving food safety and quality with reduced use of antibiotics.”

Dr Awati will also be presenting a paper on the role that probiotics play in gut health at the Beneficial Microbes Conference, Den Haag, The Netherlands on 17 March.

All of Dr. Awati’s presentations will be available to download from our website at animalnutrition.dupont.com after his talk. Alternatively email us at info.animalnutrition@dupont.com to receive PDF copies.