Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Product with added plural inorganic mineral or element...
Reexamination Certificate
2000-04-14
2001-04-10
Sayala, Chhaya D. (Department: 1761)
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Product with added plural inorganic mineral or element...
C426S807000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06214391
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a functional liquid feedstuff additive. More particularly, the present invention relates to a functional liquid feedstuff additive with which livestock can gain weight effectively as well as be significantly improved in immunity against diseases. Also, the present invention is concerned with a method for preparing such a functional liquid feedstuff additive.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Livestock production has had gradual tendency toward being conducted enterprisingly and on a large scale in Korea. Accordingly, the dense breeding in which a large multitude of livestock is bred within a limited space for reasons of productivity and economy is now being generalized in Korea. In addition, in response to the requirement for the improvement in the productivity of livestock farming, extensive and intensive research has been conducted. However, the dense breeding is problematic in that the livestock are more readily exposed to various diseases.
The productivity decrease and death of livestock, which is usually caused by its being afflicted with diseases, is one of the most serious problems that the livestock farming industries of the whole world, including the swine-breeding industry, commonly suffer from. To solve the problem, there was suggested a functional feedstock for livestock in Korean Pat. Publication No. 95-009944 entitled, “feedstuff containing a mixture of gentamycin and linkomycin or klindamycin, and additives or beverages for feedstuff”, in which antibiotics and antiviral agents or growth hormones are combined with typical feedstock to enhance the immunity of livestock against diseases.
Such a conventional technique as uses antibiotics and the like in feedstuff seems to conspicuously improve the productivity of livestock farming, in a short term, but the final result that it brings about is the aggravation of livestock farming on account of the abuse of animal drugs or antibiotics. That is, the livestock which has been abusively administered with animal drugs or antibiotics become resistant to the animal drugs or antibiotics, but not to diseases. When being afflicted with diseases, they require more potent animal drugs or antibiotics than previously administered ones. In result, the addition of animal drugs or antibiotics in feedstuff weakens the natural immunity of livestock against diseases and induces chronic diseases in livestock. Further, the use of antibiotics for livestock is limitedly allowed because, when being administered to livestock, the antibiotics remain in the livestock foodstuff such as pork, menacing the health of the consumers.
In order to prevent livestock's suffering from diseases and to provide quality livestock foodstuffs, therefore, it is not recommended to administer to livestock chemicals such as antibiotics or other functional materials. Rather, it is preferable that the physiological conditions of livestock are optimized to enhance their inherent immunity against diseases. In addition, it is very economically favorable that the feedstuff fed is allowed to be almost completely absorbed and metabolized, thereby improving the meat quality in such a way that the content of unsaturated fatty acids, beneficial to the health of humans, increases while decreasing the saturated fatty acid content without using expensive functional materials.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Leading to the present invention, knowledge of the metabolism of cells, the microscopic and structural unit of all living organisms, allowed the selection of the optimal feedstuff composition suitable to activate the metabolism of cells. Based on the fact that living organisms live as a result of the metabolism of their cells, which are connected to the extracellular spaces and optimize their internal environments through cell membranes and the activation of immune competent cells enhances the immunity of the organisms and facilitates the cellular intake of external nutrients, the present invention utilizes aluminum compounds, silicon compounds, carbonate compounds, zinc oxide, and germanium dioxide as cell activating agents in combination with reducing sugars selected from glucose, fructose, sucrose and maltose, and sodium compounds while the compounds are mainly in forms of salts of sodium or potassium, which both play important roles in the function of cell membranes. In the present invention, these compounds are liquified into a gel which can be used as a functional additive for feedstuff. The functional feedstuff additive can enhance the immunity of livestock against diseases, aid livestock to absorb nutrients, and improve the quality of meat.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
In order to improve the livestock production, synthetic antibiotics, antiviral agents, and growth hormones have been conventionally used. However, as mentioned previously, their use includes serious problems. In a long-term point of view, the use of such agents results in injuring the health of livestock, deteriorating the growth of livestock and degrading the quality of meat. What is worse, when being fed to livestock, the chemical agents are not discharged from animal bodies, but accumulated therein, so that illness or even fatality may occur to the consumers who eat the meat of the livestock.
Therefore, with the aim of solving the above problems, there is provided a liquid feedstuff additive which is prepared by homogeneously dissolving in water a composition comprising aluminum compounds, silicon compounds, carbonate compounds, zinc oxide, germanium dioxide, and a reducing sugar selected from the group consisting of glucose, fructose, sucrose and maltose and gelling the solution. In order for livestock to easily ingest such effective compounds, the gel may be diluted in water or powdered. For the latter case, the gel is sprayed over commercially available formula feedstuff, aged, and dried. Without the help of additional antibiotics, antiviral agents and growth hormone, the feedstuff additive can promote the metabolism of livestock and activate immunocytes to enhance the inherent immunity against diseases. In addition, when being fed with the additive, the livestock gains weight, which is economically favorable for livestock raisers. Further, an improvement can be brought about in the quality of meats which become rich in unsaturated fatty acids with a decreasing of saturated fatty acids.
In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a liquid feedstuff additive which is in a gelled form from a composition comprising calcium alumina silicate, sodium alumina silicate, sodium silicate, potassium silicate, sodium bicarbonate, potassium carbonate, sodium carbonate, zinc oxide, germanium dioxide, and a reducing sugar selected from the group consisting of glucose, fructose, sucrose and maltose. In addition, the present invention is featured in that the liquid feedstuff additive is five-ten folds diluted in water on the basis of weight and allowed to age for 1-2 days at 20-35° C. under a controlled condition in which nitrogen gas is supplied with a redox potential being maintained at −30 to 30 mV.
In more detail, the functional liquid feedstuff additive comprises 5-12 g of calcium alumina silicate (CaOSiO
2
Al
2
O
3
), 5-12 g of sodium alumina silicate (Na
2
OAl
2
O
3
SiO
2
), 300-900 g of sodium silicate (Na
2
OSiO
2
), 400-1,200 g of potassium silicate (K
2
OSiO
2
), 200-600 g of sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO
3
), 350-1,100 g of potassium carbonate (K
2
CO
3
), 250-800 g of sodium carbonate (Na
2
CO
3
), 10.8-2.5 g of zinc oxide, 0.4-4.5 g of germanium dioxide and 900-1,800 g of a reducing sugar per liter of water. The additive is in a gel phase. In water of 70° C. or higher, the compounds are homogeneously dissolved under a flow of nitrogen gas with a redox potential being maintained in the range of −50 to 50 mV.
In accordance with another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for preparing a liquid feedstuff additive, in which the liquid additive ge
Ju Jong Gon
Koh Jong Ho
McDermott & Will & Emery
Nel Biotech Co., Ltd.
Sayala Chhaya D.
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