Nutrition
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Nutrition
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Animal Nutrition

Feed Preservation & Feed Hygiene

Feedstuffs such as cereals, corn, legumes or even compound feeds are an ideal breeding ground for bacteria, fungi or yeasts.

If the water content and storage temperature are too high, these microorganisms can multiply explosively. This leads to spoilage of the feed, which can impair the performance of the animals or lead to serious animal diseases. BASF has more than five decades of experience in the preservation of feed and feed ingredients with its organic acids.

Your benefits at a glance

With our feed portfolio we help you to 

  • Reduce the microbial population & improve the hygienic quality of feed
  • Optimize the nutrient content and quality of harvested feed
  • Improve the hygiene of by-products and farm-produced compound feed
  • Particularly recommended when feeding breeding sows and piglets and when used in liquid feeds

Guide to Feed Preservation

For almost five decades, BASF has been active in the preservation of animal feed and feed components with organic acids. Our "Guide to Feed Preservation" was first published over 25 years ago with the intentions to give livestock producers a practical handbook that can be used for everyday challenges. It was continuously extended with new information over time. The latest version is now also available as download.
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Discover our organic acids portfolio

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Amasil®

As a very effective and easy way of acidifying feed while eliminating salmonella and inhibiting molds, organic acids from BASF in their pure form enjoy considerable use in the compound feed industry.
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Luprosil®

With organic acids from BASF, protecting the quality of your feed is safe and easy as these acids take their potency from nature’s realm.
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Lupro-Cid®

With organic acids from BASF, protecting the quality of your feed is safe and easy as these acids take their potency from nature’s realm.
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Lupro-Grain®

As an easy-to-handle, user-friendly and at the same time highly effective alternative to pure acids, we have developed our buffered acids, also known as non-corrosive products.
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Lupro-Mix® NA

With organic acids from BASF, protecting the quality of your feed is safe and easy as these acids take their potency from nature’s realm.
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Discover our clay products portfolio

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Novasilect® AF

With Novasilect® AF against crop contamination. Aflatoxins are naturally occurring toxic metabolites that are produced by many species of the fungus. 
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Novasil™ Plus

Novasil™ Plus is a natural clay that binds aflatoxins and acts like a “chemical sponge”, absorbing mycotoxins in the gastro-intestinal tract thus preventing the uptake in the blood and subsequent distribution to target organs.
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