Paul Featherstone, group director, SugaRich, United Kingdom tells GFMT about converting food waste into animal feed.
When food is manufactured, a number of by-products are
created and a proportion of the finished product can’t be placed on the market
for consumption by humans. This can be for a variety of reasons such as
packaging defects, or for technological reasons such as the wrong size or weight
biscuits, over-baking, trial runs or over ordering and out of date stock.
Many of
these former foodstuffs, including biscuits, bread, breakfast cereals, grain products, crisps
and confectionery can have a very high nutritional value – being a source of
high quality fats, sugar and carbohydrates. After checking their safety and
traceability and therefore suitability, SugaRich converts them into high quality
ingredients for use in animal feed, avoiding waste from food that is
not destined for human consumption.
After processing, the foods are blended to the required feed
formulation, then sieved and ground to create a free flowing meal. Finished feed is delivered direct to the
compounder, blender or farms.
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| Recycling surplus factory food into quality animal feeds |
