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The CELLOW-FeeP project, funded by Cariplo Foundation (Circular Economy call), is coordinated by the Department of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Milan. Researchers from the Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences and the Department of Veterinary Sciences of the University of Turin are also involved.

The UNIMI team, coordinated by Prof. Luisa Zaniboni, is responsible for project’s coordination and monitoring, for applying the experimental protocols with diets including black soldier fly larvae at the Poultry Unit, Animal Production Centre in Lodi, for analyzing proteins and amino acids’ composition of the larvae fed to the chickens and for collecting zootechnical parameters and biological samples to evaluate animal welfare, performance and meat quality traits.

Membri del team

UNIVERSITY OF MILAN – DEPARTMENT OF VETERINARY MEDICINE (DIMEVET)

Luisa Zaniboni

Silvia Cerolini

Federica Bellagamba

Vittorio Moretti

Gabriella Tedeschi

Cristina Tognoli

Stefano Paolo Marelli

The UNITO team, coordinated by prof. Laura Gasco, has been working for years on insect breeding and on the use of insect meal in different productive species.

The UNITO Unit’s task is to breed, in the Experimental Farm “Tetto Frati” in Carmagnola, the live larvae of black soldier flies to be included in the experimental diets, to evaluate the parameters of larval growth and to perform analytical, physical, chemical and microbiological evaluations on the larval rearing substrates and on the larvae themselves; and to perform histological and microbiome’s analyses in chickens fed with live larvae and to carry on meat’s sensory analysis.

Membri del team

UNIVERSITY OF TURIN – DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL, FORESTRY AND FOOD SCIENCE (DISAFA)

Laura Gasco

Sara Bellezza Oddon

Ilaria Biasato

Daniele Michele Nucera

Ilario Ferrocino

Christian Caimi

Gariglio Marta

Elio Dinuccio

Luca Rollè

Jacopo Maffia

Membri del team

UNIVERSITY OF TURIN – DEPARTMENT OF VETERINARY SCIENCES (DSV)

Achille Schiavone

Manuela Renna

Valentina Bongiorno

Maria Teresa Capucchio

Elena Colombino