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February 06, 2019

Methiopedia: The future of feed

by Matt Holmes, Features editor, Milling & Grain

Adisseo has launched a new edition of their Methiopedia, a technical guide on methionine sources used in animal feeds.

Five years after the first edition, Methiopedia Volume Two offers a complete description of the available forms of methionine with their characteristics and properties. It also compiles new trial results on nutritional and technological aspects.

Adisseo says Methiopedia is intended for nutritionists, purchasers, formulators, quality and technical managers within the premix and feed industries, as well as students and scientists, who want to enhance their knowledge of methionine and its use.

The introduction to Methiopedia Volume Two says, “Adisseo wishes to offer to the end users all the relevant information concerning methionine, an essential amino acid in animal nutrition.
 


A comprehensive guide
The book offers a complete description of the three forms of methionine: L-Methionine, DL-methionine and OH-Methionine with their characteristics and properties. It also compiles trials results on nutritional and technological aspects. Compared to the first edition, this new book is enriched with another five years of research, scientific review and increased knowledge in methionine.

Metabolism, utilisation of methionine forms by animals, and also formulation considerations, are tackled and enriched in this new release of Methiopedia. There is also new data on methionine source comparisons: trials comparing L-Methionine, DL-Methionine and OH-Methionine in broilers, trials on ducks, swine, and literary reviews of methionine source comparisons in fish species.

Technology is also at the heart of this new edition: methionine distribution equipment, recommendations on their maintenance, specific results obtained for liquid OH-Methionine. Energy savings during pelleting are also presented, amongst other subjects.

The book is intended for nutritionists, purchasers, formulators, quality and technical managers within the premix and feed industries, as well as students, who want to enhance their knowledge of methionine and its use.

Intricacies of methionine The new volume includes several topics around methionine, divided into six chapters:

• Methionine: Chemical forms and commercial products available for animal nutrition
• Metabolism and utilisation by the animal
• The relative value of the different methionine sources
• Formulating feed with supplemental methionine sources
• Effects of methionine and its supplemental sources beyond protein synthesis
• Technological aspects

In his introduction to Methiopedia, Jaap van Milgen of the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), a French public research institute dedicated to agricultural science, said the commercial product, DLMet, has been available for around 60 years.


Read more HERE.
 

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