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Avivagen Announces Increase in North American OxC-beta™ Livestock Order Following Successful Dairy Field Tests
Avivagen Announces Increase in North American OxC-beta™ Livestock Order Following Successful Dairy Field Tests.
About this update from Avivagen, Inc.
[{"type":"text","content":"\nAvivagen Inc. (TSXV:VIV, OTCQB:VIVXF) (“Avivagen”) a life sciences corporation focused on developing and commercializing immune-system improving products for livestock, companion animal and human applications, is pleased to announce that its North American purchase order for OxC-beta™ Livestock, placed in March by Mexico-based Industrias Melder, has been increased from 300 kgs to 2 tonnes. The increase follows the positive results of two dairy animal tests recently conducted by one of Industrias Melder’s key customers.\n\n\nKym Anthony, C.E.O. of Avivagen, commented, “We are very excited to announce this increase in the initial sale of OxC-beta™ Livestock to Industrias Melder and we are working to further formalize a long-term relationship with them. This sale has a twofold significance. First, it represents a critical step in bringing OxC-beta™ Livestock to Mexico, a market with annual feed sales of more than 36 million tonnes.i Second, this is the first application of OxC-beta in the dairy sector and therefore it provides crucial commercial validation of the product that other customers will look to when making purchasing decisions.” Mr. Anthony further added, “It should also be noted that both these milestones were spearheaded by our Mexican partner, Mr. Alejandro Meyenberg, whose help and expertise were instrumental in this endeavour.”\n\n\nThis significant order comes as the result of two positive tests of OxC-beta™ Livestock under Mexican commercial dairy production conditions. Both tests were conducted by a dairy farm that is a customer of Industrias Melder. The tests ran for 42 days and evaluated OxC-beta for the ability to improve animal health, productivity and milk quality. In the first test, conducted with a group of the farm’s best producing cows, there were improvements in the both the quantity and quality of milk produced. The largest impact was a 54% reduction in the farm’s bulk tank milk-somatic cell count. The somatic cell count of a farm’s bulk milk reservoir is a widely recognized indicator of milk quality and farms commonly receive financial incentives or premiums for milk with lower somatic cell counts. There was also a benefit on animal health as indicated by reduced somatic cell counts from milk sampled from individual a...