Precise detection of ruminant proteins in feeds

Tentative steps are being made to allow processed animal proteins back in feeds for monogastrics. It has to be assured however, that these do not contain any ruminant proteins. TNO Triskelion has developed a real time PCR-test with a high accuracy to achieve this. By: Gert van Duijn, Jonne Mensinga and Monique Raats, TNO Triskelion BV, The Netherlands For many years already the BSE crisis has had an enormous political and economic impact. Since 2001 a complete ban for the use of processed anima