Four young researches from “Institute of Food Technology” in Novi Sad, Serbia, Dušica Ivanov, Bojana Kokić, Đuro Vukmirović and Radmilo Čolović, visited the “Research Institute of Feed Technology of IFF” in Braunschweig, Germany. This two week visit consisted of two parts. First part was participating on training course “Fundamentals and new developments in feed-compounding technology”. Second part was individual training with aim of introducing with all equipment and analysis not only at IFF institute, but also at other research institutes and feed production plants.

One week training course “Fundamentals and new developments in feed-compounding technology” was held from 15th to 19th June 2009 at “Research Institute of Feed Technology of IFF”.  18 participants from Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Serbia and Ukraine attended the course. Course was presented in 28 lectures and three practical trainings. Lecturers were part of IFF scientific staff: Dr. Alexander Feil, director of IFF institute, Dr. Klaus-Dietrich Neumann, Dipl.-Ing. Alexandra Kirchner and Dipl.-Ing. Rainer Löwe.

The course lectures and practical trainings:

1. General information
   
   
2. Feed law
   -Legal requirements
   -Admissible and Practical tolerances, undesired materials
   
   
3. Compound-feed technology
   - Basic processes in compound-feed production
   - Milling at the feed plant
   - Dosing
   - Mixing and evaluation of the mixing quality
   - Steam generation, steam properties and conditioning
   - Pelleting  and pellet quality
   - Cooling
   - Expanding and extrusion
   - Vacuum coating
   - Hygienising compound feed
   - Post pelleting application (PPA) and bulk blending
   - Production of premixes
4. Quality management
   - Determination and characterization of essential material properties
   - Efficient management of raw materials
   - Compound-feed quality and product safety
   - Reduction of carryover and cross-contamination
   
   
5. Environmental protection / explosion protection
   - Explosion protection in feed mills – assessment of explosion risks and measures
   
   
6. Energy saving
   
   
7. Measurement technique
   - Sample taking and partitioning
   - Evaluation of the milling success
   
   
8. Trends in compound – feed production
   
   
9. Exercises / Practical training
   - Expanding / Pelleting, Pellet quality
   - Milling