September 24, 2009

Biomin introduced its protected acids, Biotronic GutPower, for use in pig and poultry feed during the recently held SPACE Livestock Show.

Biotronic GutPower is designed to improve nutrient utilisation and prevent against pathogens. It strengthens the animal gut, making the absorption surface of the intestine larger and protects animals from pathogens through direct action and improving the physical barrier function of the intestinal wall.

The main ingredients of GutPower are butyric, caprylic and capric acids in the protected glycerides form.

Glycerides are split into glycerol and free fatty acids by pancreatic lipase. This specific form of protection guarantees gastric by-pass and slow release of acids in the intestine where all acids become active.

This mode of action increases absorptive surface of the intestine and leads to an enlarged gut villi length and crypt depth resulting in an increased and improved absorptive surface area of the intestine.

The product also acts against pathogens as it inhibits pathogens such as salmonella, E. coli through the "organic acids" antimicrobial mechanism. It also down-regulates the pathogenity gene of salmonella, thereby decreasing the invasion capacity of the Salmonella.