Thirty-five percent of the soybeans sourced and processed by European vegetable oil and protein meal companies members of FEDIOL were verified or certified responsible.
Farming companies have reduced antibiotic medicine use by more than half in the space of a year.
Agri-food leaders around the world believe the industry can work together to create a better, more sustainable food system, the survey concluded.
The initiative involves nine of the world’s largest seafood companies representing over 19% of the world’s seafood production.
EUMOFA has released a new report to provide an overview of the fishmeal and fish oil sectors derived from forage fisheries in the European Union.
Global antimicrobial use in animals has declined by 13% in three years.
In the last eleven years, European farmers produced more than four million tonnes of sustainable soy, according to Donau Soja/Europe Soya standards.
The report points to 40% of soybean meal equivalent of total European soy consumption to be sourced according to the FEFAC Soy Sourcing Guidelines and 24% certified deforestation-free soy.
The publication is a special edition dedicated to facilitating the implementation of the ambitions of the FEFAC Feed Sustainability Charter.
The American Feed Industry Association released its annual report, detailing the operational challenges facing today’s animal feed manufacturers.
According to a survey that will be presented at Aquaculture Europe in September, 69.3% of people admitted to being willing to pay more for fish enriched with this nutrient.
Results showed that the fusarium mycotoxins fumonisins, deoxynivalenol and zearalenone are most frequently found.
The Norwegian Food Safety Authority also reported a few unwanted substances in its annual report from its fish feed monitoring program.
The second half of 2023 is expected to be the most challenging period for global aquaculture since the peak of the pandemic in 2020.
A 26.3% reduction was reported in 2022 compared to the figures for 2021.
Research from AFIA shows that these facilities drive economic growth, not only across our national economy but also in the counties and states where they are located.
The Sustainability Report now contains a decade’s worth of data across global operations providing a unique oversight to industry-wide sustainability performance.
Despite their importance to global diets, the vulnerability of aquatic foods to environmental change has been vastly understudied, with the US and major producers in Asia most at risk.
New report points to likely production increases across most basic foodstuffs, but delicate demand-supply balances allow little room for more disruptions.
The growing use of animal fats to power cars and planes is putting pressure on their supply to the use on animal feed.
