Bacterial biomass in the breeding of animals: performance, quality of products and economic viability

• Grant number: 11/50274-4
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: June 01, 2011
• End date: November 30, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Veterinary Medicine
• Principal Investigator: Elisa Helena Giglio Ponsano
• Grantee: Elisa Helena Giglio Ponsano
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária (FMVA). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araçatuba. Araçatuba , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The unavoidable concern on the growing production of byproducts from industrial transformations led us to the development of a biological process aiming at the depollution of wastewaters from animal industrial processing. That process was effective for that purpose and also rendered the production of a red dry biomass. Previous analyses performed on Rubrivivax gelatinosus biomass produced in fish processing industry effluent as the substrate showed that the product is free of pathogenic organisms and rich in oxycarotenoids and proteins, what suggests its use in animal feeding. The purpose of this research project is to use the bacterial biomass in the feeding of broilers, laying hens and tilapia fish and investigate the effects it may cause on animals performance and products quality, as evaluated by proximate composition, pH, color, oxycarotenoids content, fatty acids profile and lipid oxidation. Animals breeding will be carried out according to defined experimental designs in the facilities of Zootechny Section, slaughter will be held in the Experimental Slaughterhouse and the analyses proposed will be performed in Food Analysis, Animal Pathology and Veterinary Clinical Laboratories, all them currently existing in Medicine Veterinary Course Campus at Unesp/Araçatuba. Additionally, we intend to investigate the economic viability of the biomass production and utilization in animals raising. This way, we intend to provide data to allow the efficient, economic and safe use of the product in animals breeding. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

DE OLIVEIRA, J.; AVANCO, S. V.; GARCIA-NETO, M.; PONSANO, E. H. G.. Composition of broilers meat. JOURNAL OF APPLIED POULTRY RESEARCH, v. 25, n. 2, p. 173-181, JUN 2016. (11/50274-4)

MAGNANI GRASSI, THIAGO LUIS; DO ESPIRITO SANTO, EDSON FRANCISCO; DE SIQUEIRA MARCOS, MARCELO TACCONI; CAVAZZANA, JEFFERSON FELIPE; OLIVEIRA, DAYSE LICIA; CARVALHO BOSSOLANI, IDERLIPES LUIZ; GIGLIO PONSANO, ELISA HELENA. Bacterial pigment for Nile tilapia feeding. AQUACULTURE INTERNATIONAL, v. 24, n. 2, p. 647-660, APR 2016. (11/50274-4)

E.F.E. SANTO; T.L.M. GRASSI; M.T.S. MARCOS; D.L. OLIVEIRA; J.F. CAVAZZAN; P.C. CIARLINI; L.G. NARCISO; A.A. TORRES; G.S. GONÇALVES; E.G. ABIMORAD; et al. Desempenho, sanidade animal e qualidade de filés de tilápias alimentadas com ração suplementada com biomassa bacteriana. Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, v. 68, n. 2, p. 525-534, 2016-04-00. (11/50274-4, 11/01103-2)

S.V. AVANÇO; E.H.G. PONSANO; M. GARCIA NETO; M.F. PINTO. Biomassa de Rubrivivax gelatinosus na criação de frangos de corte: desempenho animal e cor dos produtos. Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, v. 66, n. 6, p. 1831-1838, 2014-12-00. (10/04090-6, 11/50274-4)