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Food waste to pig feed safe and bio secure
AUSTRALIA currently produces 11.3 million tonnes per annum of food waste and diverts 3.9 million tonnes to animal feed.
Of the remaining 7.3 million tonnes, up to 60 percent of the wastage is avoidable by directing it to food rescue and animal feed.
These are currently the only two destinations that count towards the United Nations Sustain- able Development Goal 12.3 of halving food waste by 2030 under the Australian National Food Waste Strategy.
pigs in Australia is re- lated to feeding.
waste – which potentially have a significantly lower input cost than other feed ingredients – is limited.
fed to pigs, thereby fa- vourably impacting mar- gins for pork producers and maintaining a high- quality product with good animal welfare standards and low environmental impact.
A considerable propor- tion of the cost of rearing
Currently several use of manufacturing and dairy waste streams are in the pork industry, but by and large, the use of other forms of recycled food
It is estimated that cur- rently only 10-20 percent of Australian herds are accessing manufacturing waste, largely due to a lack of business-to-busi- ness awareness.
The Fight Food Waste CRC, a partner in the pro- ject, offered a higher de- gree research scholarship to support a full-time masters student to be part of the project being led by the South Australian Research and Develop- ment Institute and the University of Adelaide.
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The Australasian Pork Research Institute Ltd considers the greater uti- lisation of food waste to substitute current feed ingredients to be of high importance for the pork industry.
The role of the masters- by-research student will be to undertake techno- economic analysis of uti- lising food waste – pri- mary production, manu- facturing, retail and hos- pitality or institutional waste streams – for pig feeds in key Australian regional areas.
APRIL aims to identify food safety or biosecu- rity risks and strategies to mitigate perceived risks of utilising food waste streams into pig feed, identify waste streams with the least variability in quality and quantity, and determine the eco- nomic feasibility of using food waste for pig feed in key regional production areas.
The analysis will pro- vide greater under- standing of the cost bar- riers for adopting new feed supplies and identify the cost barriers for entry.
The major outcome of the project will be the generation of more in- formation on food waste streams and a techno- economic analysis of uti- lising food waste – pri- mary production, manu- facturing, retail and hos- pitality or institutional waste streams – for pig feeds.
The Australian supply chain and pork industry requirements will be identified.
Key to this will be ad- dressing food safety and biosecurity issues in uti- lising a greater amount of food waste streams for incorporation into pre- pared pig feeds.
Available infrastructure which could be utilised such as feed mills and rendering plants for pro- cessing of food waste, and other infrastructure such as refrigeration and dewatering which may be required, will be identi- fied.
Ultimately, the project hopes to reduce the ‘highs and lows’ of supply and demand – and hence cost – associated with tradi- tional feed ingredients
This will be done in collaboration with the project research team.
Waste volumes, loca- tions and seasonality will be mapped.
For more information, visit apri.com.au
Page 10 – Australian Pork Newspaper, March 2021
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