Future Development Trend on Feed Additives

Feed additives are inevitable in modern feed industry which can strengthen the basis of nutritional value, improve animal performance, ensure animal health, and improve livestock quality. But food safety issues in recent years caused by the abuse of feed additives are increasing. And the development on feed additives would present the following eight major directions:

1. Technicalization

With the continuous progress of science and technology on feed additive, there would be a number of high-tech feed additives, which led the direction of the feed industry to technology development, promoting feed industry, animal husbandry to a higher level.

2. Professionalization

With the continuous development of aquaculture scale, the demand on feed and quality requirements will greatly increase, which will greatly promote the professional development process of feed additives industry.

3. Serialization

As the feed additive industry leads to technology and professional direction, the type of feed additives will further be serialization and segmentation.

4. Environmental Protection

As the need of people’s awareness of environmental protection and sustainable development, the environmental protection on feed additives will be a top priority. The feed additives in the next time should be able to use resources rationally without pollution and threat to human health, and it should be without drug residues and other side effects.

5. High Efficient

Efficient is the future development of a general direction of feed additives, feed additives rely on related technology progress and under the market economy conditions, various feed additives production units will be more emphasis on basic feed additive research, and constantly develop new varieties, so that the feed additive varieties constantly updated, and effect will be significantly improved.

6. Functionalization

Feed additives have health care function and its multiple functions will become the highlight of the development of feed additives, which has great market potential.

7. Economization

Only with better economic performance and low cost, and input-output ratio, the feed additive can be accepted and get a wide range of application.

8. Convenience

The feed additives should be closer to the application; therefore, trace amount and remixed technology are the directions for feed additive development.

With the development of animal nutrition, physiology, breeding, biochemistry, bioengineering, pharmacology, microbiology and other subjects, and now the feed additive has combined several disciplines and a variety of new technologies, their functions and applications range has been further expanded.