Farmed salmon compensate for low dietary marine omega-3 by making their own

FDA issued an interim final rule (IFR) and draft guidance for industry amending FDA’s existing regulation on maintaining records about sources and recipients of food (FSMA Section 101). FDA also published an update to its Guidance for Industry: Questions and Answers Regarding Establishment and Maintenance of Records (Edition 4), to ensure the guidance is consistent with the new FSMA requirements. Note: Food includes animal feed.

Bhimavaram-based aquafeed manufacturer, Shree Vijay Aqua Feeds Ltd. has announced it will build a new mill in Andhra Pradesh for domestic and overseas markets

Encourage the U.S. Department of Agriculture to make critical research, education, and extension investments in aquaculture [the American Fisheries Society Fish Culture Section (FCS)announcement].

Advanced extrusion system wows judges; new post conditioner and novel organic acid blend earn highly commended places in first ever Aquafeed award

Inline sampling and real time analysis becomes key to full integration

Nutreco announced that CEO Wout Dekker will be leaving Nutreco by the end of 2012. This will mark the end of a career at the company encompassing almost thirty years, of which twelve years were as CEO. The Supervisory Board of Nutreco appointed Knut Nesse as his successor

As United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk moves to consider ways to improve the nation’s trade relationship with the European Union (EU) as part of the recently-formed U.S.-EU High Level Working Group on Jobs and Growth, the American Soybean Association (ASA) submitted formal comments reminding the ambassador that the EU’s heavy-handed policies on biotech soybeans, as well as inaccurate characterization of biodiesel by the Renewable Energy Directive (RED), have contributed to a 70 percent drop in total soybean export quantity and a 44 percent decrease in soybean export value to the EU over the last 14 years

Tongwei Co. Ltd. intends to increase its purchase of Canadian canola meal by up to $240 million annually by 2015possibly rising to $900 million over the next decade

Researchers have developed a feed from the pupae of the common house fly that is proving to be not only economically advantageous when compared to fishmeal but also boosts immunity

NIFES to study how the health of sterile salmon can be improved by changes in nutrition

Coppens prepares for future growth, and for possible changes in the EU feed law with investment in new mill

Registration for Aquafeed Horizons Asia Conference has been extended to February 10, to allow for Chinese New Year

Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch will spend the next nine months evaluating sustainable seafood certification schemes including those of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA), Global Good Aquaculture Practices (Global GAP) and Responsible Fisheries Management Certification (Global Trust) to determine if any or all are credible

The following items will be discussed during the public meeting:Proposed maximum residue limits (MRLs) for pesticide residues in food and feed; Proposed revision of the Codex classification of foods and animal feeds; Proposed guidance for selecting representative commodities for the extrapolation of MRLs for pesticides in commodity groups (Proposed guidance for selecting; Guidance to facilitate the establishment of MRLs for pesticides in minor crops and specialty crops

The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) has been notified that Alaska salmon processors are phasing out their funding for certification of the Alaska salmon fishery to the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) standard

Friend of the Sea, a sustainability certification for products from sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, has also become an international reference standard for producers of fish oil, fishmeal and Omega-3.

Bi-valent oral vaccine approval for delivery to salmon and trout will allow farmers to replace injection with a vaccine top-coat on the regular feed

With a new aquafeed plant and R&D facility for tilapia feed development in Costa Rica coming online in May, BioMar is set to expand regional operations

The proposed 0-tolerance for intra-species recycling would make the use of non-ruminant PAPs practically impossible in the feed chain outside aquafeed production, FEFAC council says