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PA4 - Blue Bioresources

Both terrestrial and marine environments possess an untapped resource for biotechnological multi-product development as they contain a diverse array of functional ingredients with potential nutritional and health-benefitting biological properties e.g. growth promotion, antioxidant, prooxidant, antimicrobial, immune stimulation. From the terrestrial environment, the use of organic wastes is of particular interest because this addresses issues on waste recycling and reduction, and reduced competition for human food. Testing functional ingredients for its whole range of biological activities in several farmed animals can be labor-intensive, time-consuming, and most importantly expensive. In recent years, simpler invertebrates, such as brine shrimp Artemia, have become more attractive for assessing the in vivo biological effect of the ingredients (Ref). Prof. Kartik Baruah´s group at SLU-Sweden had established an in vivo Artemia test system at SLU. This in vivo testing system allows reducing the extensive experiments by carrying out live animal screening experiments with a considerable number of replicates and/or treatments, the findings of which will assist us in selecting a few effective treatments/doses of the functional ingredient for further (validation) experiments on the target animals. Additionally, the proposed system allows to substantially reduce the number of animals used in laboratory/field trials, supporting the principles of 3Rs. We would be interested in contribut

circular economy, organic wastes, novel feed, fish health and microbial management, single cell protein, microbial protein, bioflocs, recirculatory aqua system, artemia as model organisms, salmonids

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