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Nanosel FS

Powerful Nanotechnology driving chicken immune system

Selenium nanoparticles in NanoSelfs™ have been proven to improve growth indices, immune parameters, egg and meat quality in commercial layers and broiler, respectively.

Nano-technology is an emerging technology with tremendous potential and diverse applications in human health, agriculture, and animal nutrition. It also offers potential advantages in supporting research in many areas of life sciences. Nano- technology has many vital biological applications as living systems depend on many nano-scale objects like proteins, DNA, and enzymes. Trace minerals are normally used in very minute quantity in animal nutrition but issues like lower bioavailability, antagonism, and higher excretion rates from body limit their efficiency.

Conventional trace and macro minerals

Trace minerals like Copper, Iron, Manganese, Zinc, Selenium, and Chromium are available in organic (amino acid/analogue chelate or proteinate), and inorganic (oxide or sulfates) forms with varying bioavailabilities, while chickens derive macrominerals like Calcium and Phosphorus, mostly from inorganic sources (Limestone, DCP, MCP2, etc)

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Conventional trace and macro minerals

In chicken gut, inorganic minerals have the risk of undergoing 'hydroxy polymerization' and trap in mucus layer leading to poor bioavailability. Besides, there are several unwanted interactions resulting in nutritional disadvantages.

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Major nutritional disadvantages of inorganic minerals:

  • Interact with other minerals and excrete into the environment
  • Poor bioavailability of minerals
  • Complexes with phytate, and poor efficacy of phytase against phytate – mineral complexes
  • Reduces efficacy of phytase and retention in poultry diet
  • Degrades vitamins, lipids, and enzymes in poultry diet
  • Absorption in gut requires energy expense

Conventional trace and macro minerals

In chicken gut, organic minerals have relatively better bioavailability as compared to inorganic sources. However, there are concerns that deter consistent results.

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Concerns on consistency:

  • Structural stability varies widely with the manufacturing process
  • Wide variations in pH -dependent stability of various organic minerals in chicken gut
  • Higher molecular size and mass depending on the ligand (e.g. proteinate)

Nano-scaled minerals: Light years ahead

Nano-particles (NPs) possess different physico-chemical properties than other forms of minerals. It results in significantly higher biological activity.

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World of advantages:

  • Enhanced surface area of NPs results in significantly higher bioavailability
  • Significantly lesser unwanted interactions
  • Minerals are important component of metabolism and exoskeleton. Higher biological activity of NPs result in significantly better performance indices of chickens (broilers and layers).
  • NPs have been proven to modulate gut health of chickens towards beneficial microflora.
  • NPs like Cu, Zn, and Ag have excellent antimicrobial activities against key poultry pathogens (e.g. Salmonella, E. coli and Campylobacter.

We are reaching out to poultry farming community, empowering poultry nutrition, through our proprietary nano-scaling methods for minerals

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