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    Evonik makes investment in company launching rapid sex-testing machine for eggs

    Chloe RyanBy Chloe RyanMarch 30, 20213 Mins Read
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    Evonik has made an investment in the biotechnology start-up In Ovo through its venture capital unit. The investment comes as the young company reaches the commercialisation stage for its technology and is bringing its sex-testing machine for eggs to the market.

    The company said fast and reliable determination of the sex of chicken embryos in the egg is now possible at scale. Technology enables egg producers to avoid the culling of male chicks, which is prohibited from 2022 in Germany.

    “In Ovo has reached a crucial milestone with the successful scaling up of its unique technology,” said Bernhard Mohr, head of Evonik Venture Capital. “Since we first invested and partnered with In Ovo in 2018, the ethical problem of culling chicks has gained attention and calls for a solution have become louder.”

    The German government has now introduced legislation mandating that no chicks are culled after January 1, 2022. In Germany, an estimated 40 million day-old male chicks from laying-hen hatcheries are culled annually.

    In Ovo said it had developed a method for determining the sex in the egg that is particularly fast and reliable and can be readily integrated into the workflow of large hatcheries. In Ovo’s first machine has been screening eggs at high speed, in a commercial hatchery, since December. The first 150,000 chicks, which will produce more than 50 million eggs in their lifetime, have been hatched without any chick culling.

    Evonik is a global supplier of amino acids and their derivatives and is expanding its product range in the direction of sustainable and healthy animal nutrition. 

    “With Evonik’s support, In Ovo is bringing its proven technology to the market at exactly the right time,” said Emmanuel Auer, head of Evonik’s Animal Nutrition business line. “The cooperation with In Ovo fosters animal protein supply to retail thus helping the stakeholders in the value chain to achieve their own goals for sustainability.”

    In Ovo’s machines can identify the sex of eggs by day nine after incubation starts and is working towards earlier identification. The German government’s recent legislation foresees that as of 2024 testing for sex in the egg must occur no later than day six. Currently no technology on the market that can identify sex as early as this.

    “We are continuously improving our technology on speed, accuracy and day of testing,” said Wouter Bruins, co-founder and one of the managing directors of In Ovo. “I’m confident that we are well placed to meet market and regulatory demands.”

    In Ovo was founded in 2013 by Bruins, a biologist, and biomedical scientist Wil Stutterheim, who met at the University of Leiden. The technology is based on a biomarker identified by the founders. This allows the sex of chick embryos in the egg to be accurately determined during incubation. For this purpose, a tiny hole is made in the egg and resealed. A sample is taken and examined by mass spectrometry for the biomarker identified by In Ovo, which has been patented.

     

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    Editor of Poultry Business, Chloe has spent the past decade writing about the food industry from farming, through manufacturing, retail and foodservice. When not working, dog walking and reading biographies are her favourite hobbies.

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