speakers feature at poultry symposium

Pancosma was a major sponsor at the recent World Poultry Science Association Symposium held in Bangkok, Thailand, organized by the Asia Pacific branch. Featured were speakers from Pancosma presenting two papers.

Stéphane Durosoy, Director of the Minerals Division, presented a paper entitled "Comparison of Selenium sources for broiler breeders". This reported the results of an experiment run by Prof. Steve Leeson in Guelph University, Canada.

Of particular interest were the levels of selenium found in the egg. In the albumen selenium from a selenium yeast source was significantly higher than from sodium selenite and B-TRAXIM Se, whereas in the yolk B-TRAXIM Se was by far the highest. Overall, in the whole egg both selenium yeast and B-TRAXIM where not different but significantly different to selenite.