Purrfect nutrition: What's on our animals' menus?
Science on the Menu: A Food Safety Podcast by EFSA
European Food Safety Authority
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🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
We love our pets. But how well do we understand their diets? What role do additives play in their feed? From improving animal nutrition and welfare, to boosting production on farms, to changing an animal’s appearance, feed additives have a huge range of uses and are a fascinating element of our animal’s diets. They even provide hope in the fight against climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from livestock. Come explore with us what’s on our animal’s menus and why this matters!
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| 0:00.0 | By coincidence, funnily enough, I'm getting a dog. |
| 0:03.0 | A new dog on Saturday. |
| 0:04.8 | This in a couple of days' time. |
| 0:06.7 | So now you'll be checking all the labels. |
| 0:08.8 | I will be, yeah. |
| 0:09.7 | Now I have the expert insight into what to look out for. |
| 0:29.6 | So, Science on the Menu, a podcast by the European Food Safety Authority. |
| 0:41.2 | Hello everyone and welcome to this episode of Science on the Menu. My name is James Ramsey and I'll be your host for today's show. |
| 0:49.3 | So today we're going to talk about an area of EFSA's work that perhaps doesn't get as many headlines as other topics that we deal with, |
| 0:57.4 | but which is nevertheless represents a large proportion of the total scientific output we do, almost 25% of all scientific opinions that we issue on a yearly basis. |
| 1:02.2 | We also support through the risk assessments that we do, a multi-billion euro sector in the EU. |
| 1:09.0 | And the topic that I'm talking about is animal feed additives. And to talk us through |
| 1:15.7 | what animal feed additives are and what our work in that area involves, I'm very happy to welcome |
| 1:22.1 | to the podcast, our animal feed expert and scientist Joanna Firmino. |
| 1:28.0 | So Joanna, a very warm welcome to you. |
| 1:29.8 | How are you today? |
| 1:30.7 | Thank you, James, for having me here to representing the feed team here in EFSA. |
| 1:36.6 | I'm very good. |
| 1:37.7 | I'm very glad to be here. |
| 1:39.9 | This is also a new experience. |
| 1:42.8 | Well, as I said, we're going to talk to you a bit about the work that we do here in EFSA on animal feed and feed additives. |
| 1:51.5 | But before we get there, can you just give us a bit of info about your background and how you came to work here at EFSA? |
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