Dear colleagues, It is pleasure to bring to your notice the following three 'feed and feeding' related publications/news item released today: 1. French version of the FAO laboratory manual entitled "Assurance qualité pour les laboratoires d'analyse d'aliments pour animaux" is now available at: http://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/50ffd0b8-ecae-4172-aa8c-ed15a986a34f/ or http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/resources/newsletter/2016_newsletter_140.html English and Russian versions were already available and can be accessed from: http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/resources/en/pubs_food.html 2. A new article entitled "Areca sheath as an alternate dry fodder for livestock" has been posted at Feedipedia (www.feedipedia.org<http://www.feedipedia.org> ): http://www.feedipedia.org/content/areca-sheath-alternate-dry-fodder-livestock-0 http://www.feedipedia.org/sites/default/files/public/BH_029_areca.pdf 3. Greater need for developing countries to strengthen quality control systems in feed analysis laboratories: Analysis from the 2015 proficiency testing reinforces the conclusions from the previous year http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/home/en/news_archive/2016_Greater_need_for_developing_countries_to_strengthen_quality_control_systems_in_feed_analysis_laboratories.html or http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/resources/newsletter/2016_newsletter_140.html Best regards, Harinder Makkar FAO, Rome, Italy ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the FAO-AnimalFeeding-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.fao.org/scripts/wa-fao.exe?SUBED1=FAO-ANIMALFEEDING-L