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    • The Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens)

      • 1st Edition
      • August 26, 2025
      • Fulvia Bovera + 1 more
      • English
      The Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens): Sustainable Applications in Food, Feed, and Beyond is an interdisciplinary work that compiles the latest research on an insect poised to revolutionize the future of food and agriculture. Authored by an international team of experts, this book is an indispensable resource for entomologists, food scientists, zoologists, and veterinarians. It delves into how the black soldier fly, one of the seven insect species permitted by European Union regulations for animal feed, can convert organic matter into nutrient-rich larval biomass. The book explores the biology and behavior of Hermetia illucens, providing a foundational understanding of the insect.It then discusses farming and production methods, followed by various applications, including its nutritional and health benefits as food and feed, and its potential in bio-packaging and energy production. This comprehensive guide offers valuable insights into the transformative potential of this unique bio-converter.

    • Designer Poultry Eggs

      • 1st Edition
      • August 5, 2025
      • Arup Giri + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Designer Poultry Eggs: Innovations, Applications, and Future Outlook serves as a comprehensive guide to the science and practical applications of improving egg quality. It explores cutting-edge methods for enriching eggs with omega-3 fatty acids, vitamins, and minerals, while simultaneously reducing cholesterol content. This book is ideal for food scientists, nutritionists, and poultry industry professionals who aim to meet consumer demands, improve egg production, and promote sustainable practices. Beyond nutrient enrichment, the book delves into the use of antioxidants and innovative production strategies to create healthier eggs.It also offers insights into future trends, market applications, and the growing role of designer eggs in addressing global nutritional challenges. With actionable knowledge and strategies, this resource empowers readers to adopt sustainable solutions for enhancing egg quality and overcoming production challenges.

    • Organic Feed Additives for Livestock

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2024
      • Mahmoud Alagawany + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 1 3 5 1 1 8
      Feed additives (natural or synthetic) are formulations added to livestock rations to improve growth rates, reproductive and productive traits, feed efficiency, ruminal fermentation profiles, methane mitigation, digestion and absorption of nutrients, immunity, and overall health of the animal. Organic Feed Additives for Livestock will focus on the beneficial effects of organic feed additives and on food animals, including ruminants, poultry, fish, and more. It will also explore how these feed additives can benefit food animal production, reproduction, and health. Each chapter will cover the significance of an organic feed supplement, especially as an alternative to synthetic growth promoters, with topics including medicinal plants, cold pressed and essential oils, natural antioxidants, emulsifiers, acidifiers and organic acids, fibrolytic enzymes, organic minerals, probiotics, macro- and microalgae, organic nanoparticles, yeast and its derivatives, and bee pollen.Contributed by a range of livestock and aquaculture specialists from around the world, this book takes a holistic approach to explore how organic additives offer an efficient strategy to improve livestock productivity and health. This reference is an excellent resource for researchers and graduate students interested in animal agriculture, as well as veterinarians, animal nutritionists and breeders, and other livestock specialists. It will allow experts to stay up to date on organic options for livestock and serve as a starting point in generating new research ideas.

    • Feed and Feeding Practices in Aquaculture

      • 2nd Edition
      • May 28, 2022
      • D. Allen Davis
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 2 2 9 9 2 7
      Feed and Feeding Practices in Aquaculture, Second Edition continues to play an important role in the successful production of fish and other seafood for human consumption. This is an excellent resource for understanding the key properties of feeds for aquaculture, advances in feed formulation and manufacturing techniques, and the practicalities of feeding systems and strategies. Many new updates have been integrated to reflect recent advances within the market, including special emphasis on up-and-coming trends and new technologies on monitoring fish feeding patterns, making this book useful for anyone working in R&D in the production of feed, as well as nutritionists, farm owners and technicians, and academics/postgradua... students with a research interest in the area.

    • Atlas of the Pig Gut

      • 1st Edition
      • April 21, 2021
      • Romuald Zabielski + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 1 8 9 6 2 7
      Atlas of the Pig Gut: Research and Techniques from Birth to Adulthood examines the development of the gastrointestinal tract in swine. It focuses on changes occurring during the developmental phase, with an emphasis on the gut that is reflected in alterations of the intestinal mucosa architecture. Led by leading experts in pig digestion research, the book contains descriptions and microphotographs of the most updated research. The changes occurring in the intestine are presented in a comprehensive order, from small magnifications of tissue structures to high magnifications of fragments of epithelium-building cell structures. Additionally, the book highlights the replacement mechanism of epithelial cells during the development of the small intestinal mucosa. This book is the ideal resource for animal science researchers and practitioners. In addition, swine veterinarians and academics will also find it useful due to its helpful, detailed graphics and organized structure.

    • Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition

      • 1st Edition
      • October 27, 2016
      • W. Haresign + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
        9 7 8 1 4 8 3 1 0 0 3 0 2
      Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition — 1986 focuses on developments in the compositions of animal feeds. The book first discusses studies on the fat content of human diet. The text also looks at future trends in the marketing of animal products with particular reference to fats. The book then discusses the manipulation of fat characteristics in animal products; antinutritional factors related with dietary fats and oils; and method of analysis of feedingstuffs for the identification of crude oils. The text highlights the implications for research and the feed compounder of oils and fats determination and the implications of biotechnology for animal nutrition. The book discusses the manipulation of milk yield with growth hormone (GH). Endogenous GH and lactation potential; mechanisms underlying the galactopoietic effects of bovine growth hormone (bGH); and galactopoietic action of exogenous bGH are discussed. The text also explains near infrared reflectance analysis of forages, residues in animal products, and nutrient modulation of the immune system. The book also highlights probiotics in pig diets and use of synthetic amino acids in poultry and pig diets. The book is a good source of information for readers wanting to study the compositions of animal feeds.

    • Feed and Feeding Practices in Aquaculture

      • 1st Edition
      • May 12, 2015
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 0 8 1 0 0 5 0 7 1
      Feed and fertilizer are significant costs in aquaculture operations and play an important role in the successful production of fish and other seafood for human consumption. This book reviews the key properties of feeds, advances in feed formulation and ingredient choices and the practicalities of feeding systems and strategies. Feed and Feeding Practices in Aquaculture provides an authoritative and comprehensive coverage of the topic and is an essential guide for nutritionists, farm owners and technicians in aquaculture, as well as those working in R&D in the feed production industry and academics/postgradua... students with an interest in the area.

    • Animal Simples

      • 1st Edition
      • September 11, 2013
      • W. T. Fernie
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
        9 7 8 1 4 8 3 1 9 4 2 2 6
      Animal Simples: Approved for Modern Uses of Cure presents a variety of animal simples, which is regarded from a dietetic as well as from a medicinal point of view. This book dispels various prejudices against certain edible clean-feeding insects, eminently delicate, and remedial, which have failed to gain favor as food or medicine. The animal simples described in this book are arranged alphabetically to guide the readers. This text provides useful information regarding the remedies yielded by animals. This book is a valuable resource for readers who are interested on the usefulness of animal simples.

    • Aflatoxin

      • 1st Edition
      • December 2, 2012
      • Leo Goldblatt
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Aflatoxin: Scientific Background, Control, and Implications discusses general problems posed by mycotoxin contamination in foods and feeds. This book is divided into 15 chapters that summarize the discovery, elaboration, chemistry and assay, effects and metabolic fate, processing to ensure their removal or inactivation, and regulatory aspects of aflatoxins. The introductory chapters cover the discovery, formation by Aspergillus flavus, and the chemistry and structure of aflatoxins. The subsequent chapters describe the physicochemical and biological assays for aflatoxin measurement, detection, and analysis. A chapter also describes the metabolic fate and the biochemical alterations associated with aflatoxin administration to animals and other biological test systems. Discussions on the acute toxicity and carcinogenic activity of aflatoxins in laboratory and farm animals are also provided, with emphasis on the recognition of aflatoxicosis, a disease condition caused by the action of the aflatoxin poison. The book goes on examining the role of spoilage molds in destroying stored crops and the tremendous capacity for toxin production of aflatoxins. It also describes successful efforts of food and feed industries to ensure a wholesome food supply, including the utilization of various detoxification processes. The last chapters deal with the regulatory provisions for aflatoxin contamination control and tolerances and the implications of fungal toxins to human health. The book is intended for scientists and manufacturers concerned with the production and processing of foods and feeds, the nutrition, and the animal and public health.

    • Handbook of Flexible Manufacturing Systems

      • 1st Edition
      • December 2, 2012
      • Nand K. Jha
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 3 2 3 1 3 9 3 5 9
      This handbook is a compilation of the current practical knowledge of flexible manufacturing systems (FMS). FMS allow manufacturing plants of all sizes to reduce their inventory while increasing their ability to meet consumer demands. By controlling automatic guided vehicles, robots, and machine tools with one central computer, products can now be produced in a variety of styles and models all at the same time. FMS are designed to adapt quickly and economically to changes in requirements and to unpredictable events. This guide explains how to effectively employ these useful new systems.