Can your technology improve the stability of essential nutrients during fish feed processing and storage?
Yes. Our proprietary microencapsulation technology has been used to protect unstable nutrients such as Vitamin C and other labile ingredients through feed processing and storage and to enhance the bioavailability of these ingredients. For coated microencapsulated Vitamin C for example, there is a 100% retention through processing and delivery. In steam pelleting, there is a 94% stability. Microencapsulation allows the potential for having up to 180 days of shelf life improvement. Our technology is an ideal tool to improve stability of labile nutrients and to deliver these nutrients in a form that can be utilized by aquaculture animals such as shrimp. Stability of nutrients will reduce overdosing and represent substantial cost savings.