ASU scientists work on biological conservative creation

Research has been conducted in the framework of the Federal Program “Academic Pursuits and Research Results in Promising Directions of Scientific and Technical Development of the Russian Federation in 2015–2020”.

“Outstanding scientists from different organizations have worked on creation of biological conservative and feeding antibiotics that had to be bought in foreign countries, predominantly in China and the United States. The production of feeding antibiotics requires using producer strains. Unfortunately, we failed to obtain high-yield strains down to recent times. That is why the scientists’ main task is to create a productive strain, which would allow launching the industrial production of domestic feeding antibiotics,” said Head of Biotechnologies Laboratory under the Russian Academy of Sciences V. Dzhivakhiya.

According to Mr. Dzhivakhiya, the scientists faced a number of problems related to biological conservative producing technology as well. However, they have solved them successfully due to the usage of modern research methods.

The scientists have finished working on documentation for pilot industrial installations in production of biological conservative and feeding antibiotic so far. Moreover, pilot batches of these products have been manufactured for execution of state tests and creation of technical regulations for animal feeding. The specialists have also accomplished development of methods for antibiotic residues identification. Registration, production and commercialization of bioconservative and feeding antibiotic are to start in 2018.

“During the next two years we are going to finish our work on domestic bioconservative and feeding antibiotics, which are currently being bought abroad. Russian products will cost 30–40 % less than the imported ones. The mass adoption will also help economizing considerable financial resources, which will increase the competitiveness of Russian products for animal-breeding and enhance the food safety,” summarized the expert.