{"id":94233,"date":"2013-01-18T15:45:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T17:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=94233"},"modified":"2013-01-18T15:45:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T17:45:51","slug":"glycerin-in-animal-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/glycerin-in-animal-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"Glycerin in animal feed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_94236\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94236\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/014-017_Tecnociencia_201-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"196\" \/><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Miguel Boyayan<\/span><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The by-product of biodiesel production may be used to feed lambs and bovines<span class=\"media-credits\">Miguel Boyayan<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to two Brazilian university studies, glycerin, a by-product of biodiesel production, may be used as a feed additive for bovines and lambs.\u00a0 For every liter of biofuel produced, the equivalent of about 10% is left over as glycerin.\u00a0 In 2011, 2.6 billion liters were produced and production is expected to increase over the next few years; yet no use for that much glycerin has been identified.\u00a0 Thus, the first study conducted at the Federal University of Santa Maria\u00a0 (UFSM) in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul showed that lambs are able to consume up to 30% glycerin as a replacement for corn without any loss in terms of weight or expected development.\u00a0 The experiment, led by Professors Cleber Pires and Lu\u00eds Fernando Pelegrini, was carried out on 32 lambs.\u00a0 The other study was conducted at the Federal University of Tocantins (UFT) on 12 milk cows and 12 bullocks.\u00a0 For a period of 84 days, the animals consumed feed that contained up to 24% glycerin, twice the amount now approved by the Ministry of Agriculture.\u00a0 They were then slaughtered at a commercial slaughterhouse where parts of the animals, like the brain, liver and intestines, were analyzed and shown to present no toxicity or other injury.\u00a0 In addition, the glycerin did not alter the animals\u2019 weight.\u00a0 Professors Sandro Moron and Jo\u00e3o Restle of UFT led the experiments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glycerin in animal feed","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"coauthors":[93],"class_list":["post-94233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94233"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=94233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}