Feed Quality & Safety
UtriCid®P
Reduce pathogen risk for safer feed
Broiler / Chick
Layer Hen
Layer Hen (Eggs)
Maintaining feed quality is essential for ensuring optimal health and performance in animals, but it can be compromised by potentially harmful bacteria. These bacteria can enter the feed through various routes, such as contaminated raw materials, poor hygiene during processing, and inadequate storage conditions. Contaminated feed not only diminishes nutrient availability but also introduces potential pathogens that can adversely affect animal health and productivity, and further enter the food chain. Therefore, ensuring feed hygiene is critical to maintaining feed and food quality and safety. Acidifiers in the feed address bacterial contamination by creating an environment that is hostile to microbial growth. They inhibit bacterial proliferation, thereby reducing the microbial load in the feed. Thus, by controlling bacterial contamination, acidifiers help preserve feed quality, ensuring it remains safe and nutritious throughout storage and feeding. Safer feed helps ensure safer food!
The Challenge
How does UTRIX ensure feed hygiene?
Key Benefits
What UtriCid®P delivers
Application
Powder in feed
Certification
Halal Certified
Common Questions
Frequently asked questions
UtriCid® is a synergistic blend of organic acids (formic, lactic, acetic, and propionic) that lowers feed pH and penetrates bacterial cells in their undissociated form. Inside the cell, acids release protons, disrupting enzymes, DNA, and membrane integrity, leading to cell lysis. It acts in the feed and the gastrointestinal tract, reducing pathogens while supporting the development of beneficial bacteria.
Both products are Salmonella decontaminants and contain the same composition. The only difference is that UtriCid®P is in powder form mixed in feed, and UtriCid®S is in liquid form to be sprayed onto feed.
Both the powder and the liquid products are equally effective. Using liquids allows for an automated application within the mixer, without direct product handling (no PPE required as opposed to the powder). Automated application also ensures excellent distribution and mixing of the product within the feed when using the correct equipment.
