Marine Farms Vietnam, in collaboration with Nordic Group, will launch a major public relations campaign in the coming months to promote farm-raised cobia to restaurants, grocery stores, caterers, and consumers in the United States

Regulation (EC) No 26/2011 re‐authorizing the use of Vitamin E as a feed additive for all animal species was published in the EU Official Journal (OJ L 11) January 17, 2011. This concludes the feed additive re-authorization process for Vitamin E introduced by Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 and is the first of a number of dossiers undertaken and completed by the FEFANA Consortia and its Member companies

Germany to ramp up feed safety controls as dioxin-contaminated feed enters the food chain

Salmon reared on special fish feed diets by the Skretting Aquaculture Research Centre in Norway were eaten by pregnant women in England in the first ever intervention study of the potential benefits for pregnant women of eating oily fish

In the wake of the Dioxin in feed fats iscandal n Germany, FEFAC's President has announced the development of a Dioxin testing protocol for the EU feed fat supply chain and calls for specific approval conditions for fat blending plants

The feasibility of farming seaweed in association with existing ocean-based finfish aquaculture being investigated in a new project by the South Australian Research and Development Institute (Aquatic Sciences) in partnership with the University of Adelaide

The Future of Aquafeeds provides a comprehensive view on the current state of knowledge and the challenges and opportunities associated with development of various alternative aquaculture feeds

Companies worldwide are working to identify and exploit various natural sources of compounds that could prove effective in drugs and other products. Joining this effort is an EU-funded team of scientists that is hunting for biologically active substances in marine organisms that could be suitable for use as a basis for pharmaceutical goods

China’s investigation of U.S. DDGS imports called surprising and could disrupt trade, says USGC President and CEO.

Wheat Quality Australia (WQA) Ltd has been established by the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) and Grain Trade Australia (GTA) to manage wheat variety classification and related activities from 1 January 2011

Dioxin contaminated fatty acids from biodiesel manufacturer cause of thousands of birds culled and farm sales stopped

First BAP-certified tilapia farm joined by dozens more in China, Thailand, Malaysia, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Colombia and El Salvador since 2009

Cermaq has signed a joint venture agreement with the local partner, Anova Corporation, in Vietnam. Through its feed operations, EWOS, Cermaq is entering operations in the Vietnamese feed market.

The Scottish Aquaculture Research Forum (SARF), in association with supermarket chain, Marks and Spencer, has commissioned new research to look at the potential to use seaweed (macroalgae) and other microscopic algae as commercially viable sources of raw materials to feed fish

A recent newspaper column from a top public relations official at the Agricultural Research Service falsely made the claim that the use of plant-based fish feed in aquaculture is much more environmentally friendly than fishmeal, despite the scientific data proving otherwise and views of the agency's own scientists. The column also inaccurately argued that menhaden, one of the primary sources of fishmeal, is in danger of being overfished, the website "Saving Seafood" said

AgriMarine Holdings Inc. announced that the third tank at its fish rearing facility in Benxi, China has been stocked with the first wave of Pacific Chinook salmon fingerlings

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced December 20, 2010 an initiative to address unapproved animal drugs. To start off the initiative, FDA published a notice in the Federal Register and launched a new Web page

After months of work and anticipation, the Canadian federal government officially took regulatory control of the Pacific aquaculture industry this week

Brian Plattner, process engineering manager at Wenger Manufacturing, Inc., was recently appointed as an adjunct instructor in the Department of Grain Science and Industry at Kansas State University

India's $2.6 billion Godrej group plans to buy the controlling 51 per cent stake in Godrej Gold Coin Aquafeed from its joint venture partner, Gold Coin