Free Online Market Access Tool

Mar 31, 2017

Free online market access tool

Are you a processor or producer entering a new market? Not sure if you can meet your customer or regulatory requirements? There is a new resource that can help get you on your way.

Meeting Customer Requirements is a free, online resource developed by Alberta Agriculture and Forestry to guide producers and processors through the necessary steps to consistently meet market, standards and regulatory requirements.

This tool helps producers and food processors to evaluate their current ability to meet new requirements; create an action plan to address gaps; maintain their system through an internal audit; and prove they are meeting requirements through an external audit.

Meeting Customer Requirements started as a tool to help producers understand the terms of their contracts, and has expanded to prepare processors to meet the requirements of regulations, contracts, and customer requirements.

Source : Agriculture and Forestry

Video: Sweetener Effects on Gut Health - Dr. Kwangwook Kim

In this episode of The Swine Nutrition Blackbelt Podcast, Dr. Kwangwook Kim, Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, discusses the use of non-nutritive sweeteners in nursery pig diets. He explains how sucralose and neotame influence feed intake, gut health, metabolism, and the frequency of diarrhea compared to antibiotics. The conversation highlights mechanisms beyond palatability, including hormone signaling and nutrient transport. Listen now on all major platforms!

“Receptors responsible for sweet taste are present not only in the mouth but also along the intestinal tract.”

Meet the guest: Dr. Kwangwook Kim / kwangwook-kim is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, specializing in swine nutrition and feed additives under disease challenge models. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Animal Sciences from the University of California, Davis, where he focused on intestinal health and metabolic responses in pigs. His research evaluates alternatives to antibiotics, targeting gut health and performance in nursery pigs.