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US 10,500,236 B2Granted
Bioactive animal feed
AssigneeEcole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (Epfl)
InventorsDuncan-Bruce Sutherland, Mario Michael Zaiss
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AssigneeEcole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (Epfl)
InventorsDuncan-Bruce Sutherland, Mario Michael Zaiss
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The invention relates to a food supplement comprising or consisting of Archaebacteria, and particularly methanogenic Archaebacteria, to be used as a probiotic adjunct for animal feed. The supplement can be provided to e.g. farmed animals in addition to standard feed or as a food composition. Such a supplement is particularly useful in aquaculture and proves able in increasing animal growth rates, reducing animal susceptibility to parasitic infections and/or ameliorating animal faecal waste impact on environment. Also encompassed by the present invention are methods of manufacturing a composition comprising the bioactive food supplement as well as uses thereof.
An enriched animal feed composition comprising at least one population of at least one methanogenic Archaebacteria species, wherein the enriched animal feed composition comprises between 105 and 108 live Archaebacteria cells per gram, and
A method of increasing animal growth rates comprising enriching animal feed with at least one population of at least one methanogenic Archae species, wherein the enriched animal feed comprises between 105 and 108 live Archaebacteria cells per gram of the animal feed.
A method of ameliorating faecal waste impact on environment comprising enriching animal feed with at least one population of at least one methanogenic Archae species, wherein the enriched animal feed comprises between 105 and 108 live Archaebacteria cells per gram of the animal feed.
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