WIN4FEED - Waste & Insect for Feed
(PSR PAT 2014-2022) The aim of the project is to develop, in a circular economy perspective, a local supply chain for the recovery and valorization of food by-products to produce, through insect rearing, new sources of alternative proteins with a low environmental impact to be used in the feed sector for livestock (farm animals), in particular chickens and fish. Different by-product mixtures are studied on reared larvae in order to define the influence of diet on the larvae. The next part of experimentation, involves feeding fresh or processed (frozen or within a feed) larvae to chickens and fish and testing their zootechnical performance.
FEM activities:
Experiments on different diets in fish, particularly for DNA extraction from fecal sample and subsequent molecular amplification of the region of interest for analysis with Illumina MiSeq technology. Meta-taxonimic analysis of the data obtained. RNA extraction from intestinal tissue for the study of gene expression of inflammation markers. The analyses aim to study the influence of diet on the one hand on the microbial ecology in the fish intestine and on the other hand on tissue inflammation levels.
Start Date
01/07/2022End Date
30/06/2025Funded by
PSR PAT 3° Bando Operazione 16.1.1.Gruppi Operativi nell’ambito dei PEI (European Union - ERDF)Total cost
- FEM funding
- 11.550,00 Euro
Coordinated by
BAOLFLY (coordinator)
UOVA DI MONTAGNA (partner)
FONDAZIONE EDMUND MACH (scientific partner)
Participants
Project description
(PSR PAT 2014-2022) The aim of the project is to develop, in a circular economy perspective, a local supply chain for the recovery and valorization of food by-products to produce, through insect rearing, new sources of alternative proteins with a low environmental impact to be used in the feed sector for livestock (farm animals), in particular chickens and fish. Different by-product mixtures are studied on reared larvae in order to define the influence of diet on the larvae. The next part of experimentation, involves feeding fresh or processed (frozen or within a feed) larvae to chickens and fish and testing their zootechnical performance.
FEM activities:
Experiments on different diets in fish, particularly for DNA extraction from fecal sample and subsequent molecular amplification of the region of interest for analysis with Illumina MiSeq technology. Meta-taxonimic analysis of the data obtained. RNA extraction from intestinal tissue for the study of gene expression of inflammation markers. The analyses aim to study the influence of diet on the one hand on the microbial ecology in the fish intestine and on the other hand on tissue inflammation levels.
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