FAO has just published "Assessing quality and safety of animal feeds" as part of its Animal Production and Health series. The book brings together six reviews from the FAO electronic journal AGRIPPA, entitled "Modern techniques for feed analysis" (by I. Mueller-Harvey, includes e.g. ELISA procedures for mycotoxin and other feed contaminants), "Variability in feed composition and its impact on animal production" (G. Gizzi and D.I. Givens), "Recent advances in the in vitro gas method for evaluation of nutritional quality of feed resources" (H.P.S. Makkar), "Microbiology of animal feeds" (J.P.F. DMello, includes e.g. silage fermentation), "Contaminants and toxins in animal feeds" (J.P.F. DMello) and "Antibiotic growth-promoters in food animals" (P. Hughes and J. Heritage, includes an overview of alternatives to antibiotic growth promoters, such as production of in-feed enzymes by fermentation). See http://www.fao.org/tempref/docrep/fao/007/y5159e/y5159e00.pdf or contact FAO for more information.

08/12/2004