IPIFF – the International Platform of Insects for Food and Feed - the EU umbrella organisation for the European insect production sector is publishing today a Guidance document on EU food labelling standards applicable to insects and insect-based products (hereinafter - 'FIC Guidance'). Built around the framework of the European legislation that defines the criteria [...]

India's Health Ministry has banned the manufacture, sale and distribution of the antibiotic Colistin and its formulations for use in livestock, poultry, farmed fish and in feed supplements, the national media reports this morning. The ban has been imposed under provisions of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940. It is also understood that the ministry [...]

- On Sunday 24 June 2019, the Tehran Stock Exchange started offering trading shares of Seamorgh company, Iran's largest poultry farmer. Seamorgh company has offered 10% of its shares at the Tehran Stock Exchange secondary market. Seamorgh was established in 1974. The Agriculture Bank of Iran is the major shareholder of the company. "Considering the [...]

Cargill Animal Nutrition, via Provimi Jordan, has opened a new premix facility in Amman, Jordan. The plant, which required an investment of USD 35 million, will have a production capacity of approximately 65,000 metric tonnes per year, nearly double the capacity of Provimi Jordan's first plant. It produces a range of products under its Provimi [...]

Adisseo and Kemin will be ending their distribution agreement for the rumen-protected methionine products Smartamine® and MetaSmart®, and vitamin A product Microvit® A Supra Ruminant in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The two companies have worked together to promote amino acid balancing in dairy nutrition since 2006. The agreement will remain in place until [...]