Prevention first, and a page you can audit.
EKOME is building a livestock industry where the microbial balance of the animal and its environment is optimised. This page sets out why that direction holds up environmentally and socially, and exactly what we can evidence today.
Everything here is current practice, stated in plain language and open to challenge. Our measured footprint, our dated targets and our independent assurance are each a live piece of work, and each one appears on this page the moment it exists.
Where the argument is real
Three things that are true about the direction we are building in. They describe prevention-first animal health as a field, and the way we have chosen to build the company. What we say about an individual product is a separate matter, held to its own evidence, and we mark the difference every time.
Antimicrobial resistance
Resistance is a public-health problem with an agricultural component, and policy across our markets is moving steadily against routine antimicrobial use in healthy animals. That direction is settled, and it is the direction we built the company in. What it leaves producers needing is credible ways to keep animals well, and gut flora stabilisers are one of the categories that exists to serve that need.
The direction we build in
Resource intensity of feed
Feed is the largest single input in poultry production and carries most of its land, water and processing burden. Anything that improves the conversion of feed into food reduces the tonnage required for the same output, and the land and inputs behind that tonnage. This is arithmetic that holds for the industry as a whole, whoever supplies the improvement.
Fewer tonnes for the same output
Capability in both markets
We sell into Ghana and the United Kingdom and manufacture in the UK. The technical support that makes an additive work — reading a mill schedule, designing a trial that can fail — is the part that has to be built locally. We are building it in both markets, and that is a social commitment you can hold us to today.
Ghana and the United Kingdom
The position we publish, and stand behind.
Our mission names the industry we are working towards. Each individual product is described in its own regulated terms — zootechnical feed additive, functional group gut flora stabiliser — and held to the evidence behind it. Decisions about veterinary treatment sit with your veterinary surgeon, on your animals.
Every figure we publish comes with the working behind it. Measuring our footprint is the next piece of work on this page, and the figure goes up when the measurement exists.
Our targets will carry dates once we hold a baseline worth dating them against. Building that baseline is the current priority.
We report our position in plain language today, and we will report under a recognised framework once we hold independent assurance to put behind it.
Findings on waste, water and nutrient excretion go on this page once they meet the same species-level evidence standard we apply to every other claim we make.
Four steps to the first number on this page.
This page will carry evidence, and this is the order in which it arrives. We are at the start of it.
A product in commercial use
Measurement starts when material is running through a real mill and into real houses. We are pre-launch, and that is the honest reason this page is short.
A measured effect, published either way
Trials designed with a partner, with the failure condition agreed before the birds are placed. Whatever comes out gets published.
A baseline calculated independently
A footprint calculated on a recognised methodology with the boundaries stated — what is inside the assessment, what is outside it, and who did the calculation.
Someone independent checking it
Assurance from a third party, obtained before a figure goes on a website.
“We work with nature. We fortify it, and the animal feels the difference.”ONENESS · BALANCE · RESILIENCE
The commitments we can be held to today.
We publish what is in the sack: every organism named, every count declared, a Certificate of Analysis with each batch. You get the full state of the evidence behind a formulation in the first conversation, and the technical file records it in full.
We keep our mission and our product claims in separate registers. The industry we are building is stated as an ambition, and each product is stated in the terms its classification permits and its evidence supports.
We attribute other people’s results to them, and we display only the marks we actually hold.
We support the trials our partners run and publish them either way, and we agree the success and failure conditions before the birds are placed. A nutritionist needs a trial that can answer the question honestly, and that is the kind we design.
Every line on this page is current practice, and you may hold us to any of it.
For your procurement process.
Some buyers need a supplier ESG questionnaire completed, or a formal assurance position. Ask us early and we will tell you precisely what we can evidence today, so your form carries answers that stand up to an audit.