An all-natural feed mitigant designed to scale back the danger of swine illness transmission via contaminated feed
22 September 2025
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Dr. Fredrik Sandberg, the Director of Analysis and Improvement at McNess, spoke to The Pig Web site’s Sarah Mikesell at World Pork Expo in Des Moines, Iowa, USA in regards to the launch of their new product, FeedARMOR.
Dr. Sandberg, inform me in regards to the threat of illness transmission via contaminated feed.
It is an attention-grabbing drawback as a result of illness can enter a farm in many alternative methods. You’ve gotten animals, individuals and air, however feed is a well known revealed threat issue. For instance, the work at Kansas State College and Dr. Scott Dee and lots of others have proven that feed is usually a vector for illness.
What options does McNess supply to mitigate this threat?
We now have developed, over a protracted time frame, a know-how referred to as FeedARMOR. FeedARMOR is a mixture of natural acids, monoglycerides and pure extracts. We’re very excited as a result of it is proven to be extremely efficient in opposition to African swine fever virus (ASF), porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED), Seneca Valley virus A (SVA) and porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS).
What does your analysis present?
We’re very excited to have the ability to work along with Dr. Scott Dee, who has led this space of analysis. We collaborated with him and used his Ice Dice Problem mannequin. We additionally had 5 BCL2 rooms with Pipestone Utilized Analysis. We had a management; we had formaldehyde. Then we fed two, 4 and 6 kilos per ton of FeedARMOR. We had been capable of reveal that two kilos per ton of FeedARMOR gave full safety in opposition to the three viruses (PRRS, PED, SVA) for 27 days of an infection, which was mainly making it equivocal to formaldehyde. That may be very thrilling as a result of nobody else has ever revealed that earlier than.
What can be subsequent for analysis with FeedARMOR?
We now have analysis deliberate with a number of the land grant universities to do extra dose, time and temperature sort work to ensure that we are able to make sufficient suggestions for utilizing FeedARMOR in the summertime, within the winter and in addition relying on what sort of elements persons are utilizing to ensure that there are not any interactions stopping the know-how from working.
Biosecurity appears to be on everybody’s thoughts with the present illness ranges throughout species proper now.
It’s important, and it is like a footstool. Feed is just one leg, nevertheless it solely takes one leg to be damaged for the footstool to fall over.
