Knowledge - China FS Feed Additives

Garlic Extract for Treating Fish Diseases

March 13, 2023

Using garlic extract in combination with other medications can treat fish diseases effectively without contaminating water sources or impacting the sanitary inspection of aquatic products for export. This approach can enhance the preventive and therapeutic effects significantly. Using garlic extract alongside bottom-modifying agents can enhance bottom treatment effects, purify water quality, and work with water conditioners to neutralize algal toxins. Garlic extract combined with sulfanilamide medications, such as sodium sulfacetamide (now banned) and sodium sulfamethoxazole (now banned), has a unique effect in treating fish septicemia. Garlic extract combined with enrofloxacin and florfenicol improves the treatment of fish hemorrhagic disease, gill rot, and enteritis. Garlic extract with salicylic acid can create a green disinfectant, thiomethoxam, effective against water mold and skin rot. Combining garlic extract with traditional Chinese medicine for liver and gallbladder treatments enhances the effectiveness of liver-gallbladder syndrome therapies. Garlic extract mixed with chlorine disinfectants, iodine preparations, benzalkonium bromide, and glutaraldehyde improves the effectiveness and bactericidal capacity of disinfectants, particularly in treating hemorrhagic disease, gill rot, and enteritis.

What illnesses does allicin treat?

March 13, 2023

Allicin is an anti-infection drug that can be used to treat deep fungal and bacterial infections. It is used to prevent and treat acute and chronic bacterial dysentery, enteritis, whooping cough, fungal infections of the lungs and digestive tract, candidemia, cryptococcal meningitis, tuberculosis, and more. Pharmacological research has shown that allicin has inhibitory and bactericidal effects on various cocci, Bordetella pertussis, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Shigella, Salmonella typhi, paratyphoid bacteria, E. coli, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and other pathogens. It also inhibits fungal infections and has inhibitory and killing effects on amoeba, vaginal trichomonas, and pinworms.

Yucca Extract for Deodorization

March 12, 2023

Yucca extract is a new type of feed additive that plays an important role in promoting livestock and poultry health, increasing productivity, improving digestive tract conditions, enhancing meat quality, promoting nutrient absorption, and increasing feed efficiency. In particular, yucca extract has a unique nitrogen-binding ability, making it highly effective in reducing harmful substances such as ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, and skatole in livestock manure, thus significantly improving the living environment of animals. Reducing Ammonia Emissions In the odor gases produced by animal waste at farms, ammonia makes up a large proportion. Along with the highly toxic hydrogen sulfide, it is a major indicator of bad odors in farming operations. Ammonia in manure is mainly produced by undigested nutrients, especially sulfur-containing amino acids, which are fermented by microorganisms to produce large amounts of ammonia and hydrogen sulfide. Ammonia in urine is produced by the action of urease, which breaks down urea and releases ammonia. Urea from protein and amino acid metabolism in the intestines also produces ammonia through urease activity. This intestinal ammonia can damage mucosal epithelial tissue, affect mucosal cell metabolism,...

Application of Yucca Extract in Aquaculture

March 12, 2023

In aquaculture, a large amount of waste, including excess feed, excrement, and feces from the farmed species, as well as nitrogen and phosphorus nutrients released from internal sediments and bottom sludge, overloads the water with nutrients. This pollution exceeds the water body's natural ability to cleanse itself, leading to excessive phytoplankton growth, which depletes dissolved oxygen in the water, deteriorates water quality, reduces transparency, and results in mass fish and shrimp deaths. This imbalance disrupts the aquatic ecosystem, limiting the sustainable development of aquaculture. The main components of yucca extract include saponins, polysaccharides, yuccaols, and resveratrol. Yucca extract has strong adsorption abilities for harmful gases, helps regulate gut microflora, promotes cell nutrition, reduces ammonia emissions from farmed animals, improves the living environment of livestock and poultry, and enhances immune system function. What are the benefits of using yucca extract in aquaculture? Adding yucca extract promotes the non-specific immune response in juvenile turbot. Yucca extract significantly reduces the total ammonia nitrogen levels in freshwater fish farming. It can also noticeably improve the growth rate of channel catfish fingerlings and reduce ammonia...

How many types of yucca extract are there?

March 12, 2023

Two. North American Yucca: Grows mainly in the deserts and scrublands along the Mexico-U.S. border, with a high saponin content, making it suitable as an animal feed additive. Domestic Yucca: Primarily cultivated in places like Yunnan, it has a low saponin content, making extraction insufficient; it's generally used as an ornamental plant in urban landscapes. North American Yucca: Domestic Yucca:

Is yucca extract an attractant?

March 12, 2023

What is an attractant? It's similar to garlic extract, which is a great flavor enhancer; garlic has a strong smell that can replace some flavoring agents in animal feed, improving off odors and increasing intake. However, it's important to control the amount added, as too much can have the opposite effect. Yucca extract doesn’t have a distinct smell, so it may not act as an attractant. Still, it effectively reduces odors and ammonia, improves protein utilization, enhances gut health, and promotes animal growth. Yucca extract is a new type of feed additive crucial for improving livestock health and productivity, enhancing digestive environments, improving meat quality, and increasing nutrient absorption. Notably, it has unique nitrogen-fixing abilities that significantly lower harmful concentrations of ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, and fecal odors in animal waste, enhancing the overall environment.

Is cinnamaldehyde toxic? Can it harm the skin?

March 12, 2023

It is flammable and can produce combustible gases and vapors when heated. Health hazards: It is harmful upon skin contact and can cause irritation and sensitization.

Cinnamaldehyde in the Feed Additive Industry: Q&A

March 12, 2023

Answer: The product needs to be stored sealed, and nitrogen is added for protection at the factory. It oxidizes and discolors when exposed to air. It is soluble in alcohols, ketones, benzene, toluene, and aromatic hydrocarbons. Answer: It is harmless to humans, though some individuals may have allergic reactions. Ensure proper ventilation, wear masks, and use leather gloves to avoid skin contact. If allergic, clean with alcohol and soap; usually, the condition will resolve without medical attention. Answer: The remaining 0.8% consists of water, benzaldehyde, and polymers like trimers and dimers of acetaldehyde. Answer: It degrades into phenylalanine, a nutritional component. Answer: No, acetaldehyde is unstable and volatile, and it converts completely. Answer: Antibiotics are chemical substances added in low doses to animal feed for extended periods to prevent disease, enhance nutrient metabolism, promote healthy growth, and improve performance. Answer: Alternatives include feed acidifiers, probiotics/prebiotics, antimicrobial peptides, enzyme preparations, and plant essential oils. Answer: Their stability outside the body is poor, they have high loss rates inside the body, and they are prone to evaporation and oxidation. Answer: Different essential...