Optimise the safety of your animal feed manufacturing process and keep your animal production system healthy and profitable.
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Discover key hygiene regulations, feed processing and feed formulation methods
Producing animal feed safely will ensure your animal production system remains healthy. Well-fed animals not only live longer but are healthier and more productive in quality and quantity, which means larger farming profits.
On this course, you’ll discover the control and testing methods used to maximise the safety of animal feed. You’ll explore the safety of different types of animal foodstuffs, including forages, oilseeds and by-products.
You’ll also learn hygiene regulations around the microbiological and chemical aspects of animal feed, as well as feed processing and formulation methods.
What topics will you cover?
- Feedstuff categories (forages, oilseeds and by-products)
- Legislation
- Microbiological and chemical aspects
- Feed Processing
- Feed Formulation Principles
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Evaluate the multidiscipline nature of animal feed production
- Identify solutions to animal feed safety issues
- Explore the regulatory requirements related to the production of animal feed
- Demonstrate an understanding of animal feed safety issues
- Assess animal feed safety control systems
- Experiment with feed formulation to meet the nutritional requirements of targeted species.
Who is the course for?
The course is designed for animal feed mill managers for continuous professional development and training existing and new operators, as well as other personnel (such as administrative and sales staff), food scientists, process engineers, regulators on feed safety practices.
