Acadian Seaplants' Kelp Meal for Animals

Acadian Seaplants Limited is a leading manufacturer of kelp for animal and aquaculture feed and nutritional supplements. The regular use of Acadian Seaplants' kelp meal as an organic feed supplement increases the utilization of all ingredients in a complete feed ration, improving the overall health and performance of your animals, and farmed shrimp and fish.

Kelp, fresh from the sea, has been used for centuries in agriculture to help fertilize crops and provide feed supplementation to animals. Some of the first scientific reports involving the use of kelp as an animal feed were from the British Isles. Sheep herders reported that their sheep would feed on kelp that washed up on the beaches after winter storms. After consuming the kelp, shepherds noticed their sheep exhibited visible health improvements. Thus, the practice of feeding dried kelp meal to animals was born. Today, this practice has grown to involve numerous other species of animals and has received abundant scientific and producer interest due to product benefits.

Acadian Seaplants' Kelp Meal Benefits in Animal Diets

The regular use of Acadian Seaplants' Kelp as a feed supplement helps increase the utilization of all ingredients in a complete feed ration, improving the overall health and performance of your animals.

Acadian Seaplants' Kelp Flour is used extensively in aquaculture as a binding agent to help reduce waste in pelleted or extruded fish feeds. Additionally, considerable improvement in overall fish health is often observed. Kelp is also widely used in shrimp feed and shellfish diets as well.

Kelp Meal - What's Inside?

Acadian Seaplants' Kelp Meal contains a wide range of dietary nutrients, including over 60 naturally-chelated minerals and essential elements that the kelp absorbs from the life-giving ocean waters. The minerals contained within our seaweed are reported to be almost entirely attached to the carbohydrate fraction, making them highly bioavailable to your animals. Other nutrients include vitamins, amino acids and carbohydrates.

Unique Quality Processing

Acadian Seaplants Limited's environmentally sound hand-harvesting techniques safeguard the natural resource to ensure continued sustainability of the resource for generations to come. Our passive, low temperature, solar drying method ensures that the nutrient-rich benefits of the live seaweed remain in the product in an uncompromised fashion that retains the highest possible nutritional value. read more»

Our modern manufacturing facility is equipped to grind or mill the solar dried seaweed material to different particle sizes ranging from cut and sift, to granules, to very fine flours. Careful monitoring of mesh profiles means you get consistent quality product delivered every time. To accommodate our customers' feed applications, we offer a wide range of product formats.

Packaging

Acadian Seaplants Limited sells feed products in bulk quantities to a worldwide network of distributors. The product is normally available in industry-standard bags (20 kg, 25 kg and 50 lb) that are easy to handle and transport. Acadian Seaplants' Kelp Meal is also available in tote bulk bags (1,000 kg and 2,000lb).

Quality Assurance

Acadian Seaplants' Kelp Meal is produced under meticulous quality control procedures, ensuring product traceability from harvesting to the finished product. Our manufacturing facility is certified GMP/HACCP through the FeedAssure™ program ensuring that our products are subject to strict monitoring at every step of the process and evaluated for safety concerns on a continuous basis. FeedAssure™ is a comprehensive feed safety management and certification program developed for the Canadian feed industry through the Animal Nutrition Association of Canada (ANAC). FeedAssure™ is both an assurance of safety controls and a valuable business tool for the animal feed industry.

Our Kelp Meal processing facility is also certified by the Safe Feed/Safe Food Certification Program, administered by the American Feed Industry Association.

Becoming Safe Feed/Safe Food-certified means the facility demonstrates and ensures continuous improvements in delivering safe, wholesome livestock feed for the growth and care of animals.

"Certified facilities go above and beyond federal industry requirements to ensure the highest standards in manufacturing and processing are followed each and every day." - Safe Feed/Safe Food Certification Program.

Organic Certifications & Listings

Our processing facilities are certified organic by Pro-Cert Organic Systems Ltd. The operations are compliant with the OC/PRO Organic Standard, the Canadian Organic Standard, EEC Regulation 2092/91, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Organic Program (NOP) and the Quebec Organic Reference Standard (CARTV).










Acadian Seaplants' Kelp Meal is OMRI® listed. The OMRI® listed products undergo a rigorous review to ensure that they comply with USDA organic standards.



Acadian Seaplant's Kelp Meal is also certified organic with BCS Oko-Garantie, Nuremberg, Germany. BCS is an EU-accredited inspection and certification body. In addition, BCS is accredited by USDA, and as a Registered Foreign Certification Company by the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry.

Environmentally Friendly

When you purchase Acadian Seaplants' Kelp Meal, it means you have made an environmentally and socially responsible choice. Acadian Seaplants' products are eco-friendly and eco-efficient, made with the commitment to improve energy efficiency and waste reduction at all stages of production. read more»