Animal Nutrition & Health

Meat quality

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Expand your market potential with improved meat quality, reduced condemnations and food wastage, and uniquely differentiate your brands with specialty products

Why is it important?

  • Poultry meat profitability can be heavily impacted based on the quality and volume of saleable meat produced.
  • Condemnations can exceed 1.5% at times and are considered one of the biggest losses, even in well-run poultry meat production systems.
  • Carcass and breast meat yield can also impact the volume of saleable meat.
  • Consumer preference for high quality meat creates opportunities for poultry meat product differentiation.

How to maximize the potential?

  • Maximize carcass and breast meat yield while reducing condemnations.
  • Reduce oxidative stress during the growing phase to improve the meat quality.
  • Consider pigmentation as a strategy to differentiate your poultry meat products.

dsm-firmenich solutions

  • Vitamin D, in a further metabolized form as 25-OH-D3, is essential for muscle cell growth and can increase carcass and breast meat yield.
  • Carotenoids help to ensure the quality of meat by improving the bird’s antioxidant capacity, while providing pigmentation to chicken skin which can help differentiate poultry meat products.
  • A precision monitoring system using blood biomarkers can help determine oxidative stress which may be impacting meat quality.

We recommend ensuring OVN Optimum Vitamin Nutrition® and a comprehensive mycotoxin risk management program as baseline in all poultry diets. Precise sustainability measures can help reduce the environmental footprint while ensuring lifetime production.

  • Hy-D®

    Hy-D® is the fast track vitamin D3 source, for a strong skeleton and better performance.

  • CAROPHYLL®

    We offer additives that allow consistent delivery of precisely-pigmented egg yolks, poultry skin and fish.

  • Verax™

    Harness the power of data to get a deeper understanding of the overall health, productivity and welfare of your animals.

  • OVN Optimum Vitamin Nutrition®

    OVN Optimum Vitamin Nutrition® is about feeding animals high quality vitamins, produced with the lowest environmental footprint, in the right amounts, appropriate to their life stage and growing conditions, to optimize: • Animal Health and Welfare ▶ good for animals • Animal Performance ▶ good for farmers • Food Quality & Food Waste ▶ good for consumers and the planet

  • Mycofix®

    The Mycofix® portfolio of feed additives represents the most state-of-the-art solution for protecting animal health by deactivating mycotoxins that contaminate farm animal feed. Its safety and efficacy are proven by 7 EU authorizations for substances that deactivate mycotoxins.

  • Sustell™

    Sustell™ is an intelligent sustainability service that combines the most advanced environmental foot printing calculation tool with expert sustainability, animal production and nutritional knowledge to create tailor-made, practical solutions and business development projects that enhance the environmental sustainability and profitability of animal farming. Sustell™ unlocks the value of animal production sustainability.

Promote your product with confidence

Differentiating poultry products as safe, high quality, and sustainable protein sources is the focus of every producer. By helping to reduce waste and to improve food security sustainably, we at dsm-firmenich support you to deliver premium poultry products to build your reputation in the market with confidence.

OUR AMBITION

Meat Quality

Consumers want meat and meat products that:

  • Are safe
  • Have a good appearance
  • Have an acceptable shelf life
  • Taste good and are nutritious

Our expertly developed products help our customers supply the meat that today’s health- and quality-conscious consumers demand.

Main Benefits

The animal’s diet can have a positive effect on many aspects of meat quality. In particular, vitamins can improve both the nutritional quality and the texture of meat and meat products. We have developed a range of innovative products to help harness this potential, including:

  • Our specific Optimum Vitamin Nutrition (OVN™) concept – a structured and precisely controlled method for supplying all the key vitamins in optimum quantities. More nutritious feed for the animals translates into better nutrition for consumers.
  • Accurate vitamin E supplementation can help reduce the oxidation of fats in meat, which causes unpleasant odors and flavors. Feeding target levels of ROVIMIX® E50 (vitamin E) can help with this, as well as in reducing meat drip loss.

Meat Quality Solutions

  • PureGro™

    Reducing the odor of swine units is sure to make everyone happier – the animals, the workers and even the neighbors! We have developed an effective way to do this.

  • CRINA®

    Our specific blends of essential oil components have shown to help deliver a better balance of gut microflora.

  • Biotronic®

    The Biotronic® line of state-of-the-art enhanced acidifiers support modern farm animals against Gram-negative bacteria.

  • Biomin® CleanGrain Plus

    Biomin® CleanGrain Plus is a unique blend of organic acids and salts designed to protect against spoilage of grains and by-products caused by molds, yeast and bacteria.

  • Biomin® CleanFeed

    BIOMIN® CleanFeed is a mould inhibitor with a unique blend of active substances for the preservation of finished feed. Due to the well balanced formulation, BIOMIN® CleanFeed provides an excellent protection against spoilage caused by moulds, yeasts and bacteria in feed.

  • CYLACTIN®

    Increase the proportion of ‘good’ bacteria, and you have a better performing gut.

  • Digestarom® DC Power

    Digestarom® DC Power is a next generation phytogenic feed additive mixed into premixes, mineral feed or finished feed in order to support farm animal feed intake, support digestion and feed conversion. The Feed Converter.

  • Digestarom®

    Digestarom® line of phytogenics contain unique blends of herbs and spices, essential oils and other plant extracts to improve palatability and acceptance of feed, support digestion and overall performance of farm animals.

  • VevoVitall®

    VevoVitall® is an ultra-pure source of benzoic acid and is an excellent feed preservative.

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