Feed Formulation and Production Technologies

The course aims to provide students with the knowledge to deal professionally with the activity of industrial production of compound foods for the main farmed species. The feed production will be evaluated considering food safety and security issues.

At the end of the course the student knows the organization and structure of the feed mill, the techniques and the purposes of the feeding mill processing , the legislative rules governing the production and marketing of feed and premixes, knows the nutritional characteristics of the main raw materials used for the production of compound feed and evaluates the environmental implications due to the choice of the raw materials used in a perspective of environmental and economic sustainability of production.