EvaPig® was created, designed and developed by Jean Noblet (INRAE, UMR1348 PEGASE), Alain Valancogne (INRAE, UMR1348 PEGASE), Gilles Tran (AFZ) and Ajinomoto Animal Nutrition Europe
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INRAE, UMR1348 PEGASE (Physiologie, Environnement et Génétique pour l'Animal et les Systèmes d'Élevage) |
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Association Française de Zootechnie (AFZ) |
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Ajinomoto Animal Nutrition Europe |
The first edition of EvaPig®, released in 2008, was made possible by the contributions, advice, encouragement, and feedback of many people from INRAE, particularly Jean-Yves Dourmad (biological effects of endogenous and exogenous phytase), Bernard Sève (ileal standardised digestibility of amino acids), Catherine Jondreville (phosphorus digestibility), Jaap Van Milgen, Serge Dubois and Henri Flageul. The chemical data for that version were provided by the editors of the INRA-AFZ tables 2002-2004, Daniel Sauvant, Jean-Marc Perez, and Gilles Tran.
The chemical data for EvaPig® 2020 were provided by AFZ, the editor of the INRAE-CIRAD-AFZ Tables (www.feedtables.com, created in 2017). As in the previous version, the nutritional values were obtained using expertise from INRAE and equations derived from in vivo measurements published in the scientific literature. The data for amino acid digestibility were derived from: AFZ, Ajinomoto Eurolysine, Aventis Animal Nutrition, INRA, ITCF, 2000. AmiPig. Standardised Ileal Digestibility of amino acids in feedstuffs for pigs, AFZ, Paris.
In addition to INRAE and Ajinomoto Animal Nutrition Europe, the following organisations have supported the French Feed Database of the AFZ since 1989: Arvalis Institut du Végétal, CCPA, Cargill, CIRAD, Cooperl, Désialis, IFIP-Institut du Porc, MG2MIX, MixScience, Techna, Terres Univia, USICA, and Wisium. We thank in advance the people who will help to make EvaPig® better and more useful, notably by providing us with nutritional values for new ingredients, or more accurate and up to date information. If your organisation is willing to share such data, please send inquiries and suggestions through www.evapig.com.