July 24, 2012
Adisseo organised 300th Microvit® premix clinic in France
Press release
Feed additives company Adisseo organised the 300th Microvit® Premix Clinic (MPC)-a training course on vitamins for technologists, nutritionists and buyers from the feed industry-in Commentry, France in March for 12 customers from Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and France.
Since only small quantities of vitamins are required in the complete feed, it is necessary to perfect knowledge of vitamins and their handling. MPC aims both to demonstrate that a vitamin is much more than its product specification and to provide the required technical information for the best choice and use of vitamins in premixes.
"We put the emphasis on the critical points for each vitamin that have to be taken into account by premixers when sourcing them: stability, mixability, size distribution of particles, flowability heavy metal contents, type and quality of carrier, etc," says Jérôme Lamoine, one of Adisseo's experts on MPC in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
Part of the training is organised in Commentry, where customers can visit Adisseo's facilities such as the CARAT laboratory, where physical chemical analyses are performed by more than 50 scientists, engineers and technicians in biochemistry, physics and biology, and CERN, where "in vivo" digestibility tests are conducted on pigs and poultry. A plant visit is also organised in order to show some of the vitamins processes used.
Practical tests are presented and customers are trained to carry out appropriate quality controls and to adapt the sampling procedures according to the required analysis.
MPCs can also be conducted on site worldwide, at the customers' request, with experiments and agendas adapted to their requirements.
