A debate on the use of animal sourced amino acids has resurfaced, as the National Association of British and Irish Millers has ruled against 'Amino A' being used on milling wheat.
NABIM said it is against the use of 'Amino A' because it contains amino acids derived from animal waste origins.
Wilson Boardman, Managing Director of Micromix Plant Health said the vast majority of agricultural biostimulant products marketed today containing amino acids have materials sourced from the major amino-acid manufacturers within the EU.
These producers have businesses founded on recycling waste materials, and historically pig skin has been one of the most readily utilised sources for hydrolysing to amino acids.
Mr Boardman said: “These products clearly will not conform to the requirements of Kosher or Halal.
“There is also a strong argument that their components have been broken down to such fundamental building blocks by chemical and enzymatic breakdown that the source is both chemically and biologically irrelevant.
“We also live in a society that has experienced BSE and has high levels of political sensitivity around religious tolerance, so animal sourced amino acids are unacceptable.”
