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Proglobulin is a high quality spray dried plasma protein. It is an excellent protein source in diets for piglets in the period around weaning. After weaning an high feed intake is essential for health and daily gain. When feed intake after weaning is too low, there will be a considerable reduction in small intestinal villus length, causing a reduction in the digestive and absorptive capacity of the gut. So when feed intake is higher, there will be less damage of the villi, which leads to a better health and daily gain after weaning. Numerous tests indicate that piglets prefer diets containing plasma proteins over diets containing other high quality ingredients like skimmed milk powder, whey proteins concentrated fishmeal and specialty soy products. This explains a higher feed intake when piglet diets contain Proglobulin. A meta-analysis of 75 published scientific studies comparing diets containing plasma protein with control diets without plasma protein, shows that the improvement for ADG and ADFI is respectively 28% and 25% (Figure 1). Experiments with plasma proteins have also shown an improvement in piglet health after weaning. The high content of bio-active components, like immunoglobulins, further supports the positive effects on piglets. Typically, plasma proteins are used for the first 14 days after weaning at a dosage of 3% to 5%.
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Being animal proteins, the safety of plasma proteins is sometimes questioned mainly because of potential viral contamination. Again, we have to state that only blood from healthy animals is collected. Further, the successive process steps in our production plants guarantee adequate inactivation of viruses. Sonac has done trials with research institutes to prove this