Pancosma to contribute in symposium in mid-July

Geneva-based animal nutrition company Pancosma will contribute 18 presentations at the American Dairy Science Association/American Society of Animal Science/Canadian Society of Animal Science (ADSA/ASAS/CSAS) symposium in Montreal from July 12-16.

Pancosma's contributions will include five oral and seven poster presentations about plant extract based performance enhancement; two of each about sweetening technology; and two oral presentations about the glycinate form of organics trace elements.

A methane presentation will also show that a plant extract combination of cinnamaldehyde, eugenol and garlic may have potential to reduce methane emissions from ruminant livestock.

The research findings being unveiled include the following:

• new commercial scale evidence of enhanced growth rates and feed efficiency in beef cattle from supplementation with eugenol, cinnamaldehyde and capsicum plant extracts
   
• the anti-oxidant potential of cinnamaldehyde
   
• the potential in pigs for sweetener SUCRAM® to increase the glucose absorption capacity of the gut
   
• the development of new improved analytical techniques to measure the stability of glycinate trace element supplements