Last updated: 3 October 2026
Welcome to Animal Nutrition Academy. By accessing or using this website, including its pages, articles, publications, educational materials, downloadable files, archives, indexes and other content, you agree to the following Terms of Use.
Please read these Terms carefully. If you do not agree with them, you should not use this website.
1. Purpose of the website
Animal Nutrition Academy connects nutritional science with commercial practice through technical publishing, industry perspectives, educational projects and publishing collaborations.
This website provides access to original content, downloadable materials, archives, indexes and links to work published on other platforms.
Its content is intended for animal nutritionists, veterinarians, feed industry professionals, livestock producers, students, researchers and other readers interested in animal nutrition, animal production and related commercial practices.
2. Informational and educational use only
The content on this website is provided for informational, educational and professional reference purposes only.
Although the information is prepared with care, it should not be considered a substitute for professional judgment, nutrition or veterinary advice, feed formulation review, regulatory guidance, laboratory analysis or case-specific consultation.
Users are responsible for evaluating the relevance, accuracy and applicability of the information to their own circumstances, species, production systems, geographic region, regulations and commercial conditions.
3. No professional, consulting or commercial advice
Accessing or using this website does not create a consultant-client, veterinarian-client, advisor-client, commercial advisory or professional service relationship between Animal Nutrition Academy, the editor, contributors and any user.
The publication, availability or use of content through this website does not constitute any consulting, advisory, veterinary, formulation or other professional service.
Decisions relating to animal diets, feed ingredients, feed additives, health programs, production systems, regulatory compliance or commercial practices remain the responsibility of the user and should be made with appropriate professional advice where necessary.
Any separately agreed professional services, publishing arrangements, sponsorships or educational projects are governed by their respective agreements.
4. Access to content
Animal Nutrition Academy provides content through website pages, downloadable documents, archives, indexes and links to external platforms.
You may access and read website content, and download and store materials made available for that purpose, for personal, educational, internal professional or reference use, subject to these Terms and any applicable copyright or permissions notices.
Animal Nutrition Academy may remove, revise, reorganize, correct, replace or update website content at its discretion and without prior notice.
Content published on external platforms remains subject to the terms, access conditions and permissions requirements of those platforms and the applicable rights holders.
5. Intellectual property
Unless otherwise stated, content published on this website, including text, articles, downloadable documents, graphics, images, publication formats, page content, archives and indexes, is owned by or licensed to Animal Nutrition Academy and/or the applicable rights holders.
All rights are reserved, subject to applicable law.
You may not copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, distribute, sell, translate, adapt, modify, incorporate into another publication or use website content for commercial purposes without prior written permission, except where permitted by applicable law or expressly authorized by the applicable rights holder.
References or links to externally published work do not transfer ownership or grant permission to reproduce that work.
Third-party names, trademarks, logos and materials remain the property of their respective rights holders. Animal Nutrition Academy cannot grant permission for their use unless expressly authorized to do so.
6. Permitted use
You may use this website and its materials for lawful professional, educational and personal reference purposes.
Permitted uses include:
- Reading website pages and downloadable materials.
- Downloading and storing individual documents made available for that purpose for personal or internal professional reference.
- Sharing links to pages on the Animal Nutrition Academy website.
- Citing content with proper attribution.
- Quoting short excerpts where permitted by applicable law or the relevant permissions notice, provided that the quotation is accurate, appropriately attributed and preserves the original context.
Access to content does not automatically grant republication, redistribution, translation, syndication, licensing or other reuse rights.
7. Prohibited use
You agree not to use this website or its materials in any way that:
- Violates applicable laws or regulations.
- Misrepresents the source, authorship, meaning or context of any material.
- Removes copyright notices, attribution, disclaimers or publication details.
- Republishes or redistributes downloadable documents without permission, except where permitted by applicable law.
- Uses content to imply endorsement by Animal Nutrition Academy, the editor, contributors, sponsors or collaborating organizations without authorization.
- Interferes with the security, availability or proper functioning of the website.
- Scrapes, harvests, copies or systematically reproduces protected website content without authorization, except where permitted by applicable law.
- Uses protected content for artificial intelligence, machine learning, text and data mining or similar computational purposes contrary to Section 15.
8. Citation and attribution
When referring to or citing content from this website, users should provide clear attribution to the original author, publication and source.
Where available and relevant, citations should include:
- Author or contributor.
- Publication or series title.
- Article or document title.
- Publication date or year.
- Volume, issue number or other identifying details.
- Page reference.
- Original source or website address.
For work published on an external platform, users should cite the original publication rather than presenting Animal Nutrition Academy’s index page as the publisher of the full work.
Users should not cite, quote, summarize or excerpt material in a way that changes its meaning, removes important context or suggests conclusions not supported by the original content.
9. Corrections and updates
Animal Nutrition Academy aims to maintain accurate and useful content.
However, nutritional science, regulations, ingredient markets, production practices and commercial conditions may change over time.
Website content may be corrected, revised, updated, replaced, reorganized or withdrawn at the discretion of Animal Nutrition Academy. Availability in an archive does not necessarily indicate that material remains current.
Readers who identify possible errors, omissions or outdated information are encouraged to contact the editor with the relevant title, website address and publication or page reference where available.
Corrections to work published on external platforms may also require the involvement of the relevant publisher.
10. Third-party links, platforms and collaborations
This website may include links to third-party websites, publications, platforms, newsletters, social media pages and other external resources.
These links may provide access to source material, externally published work, educational projects or information about contributors and collaborating organizations.
Animal Nutrition Academy is not responsible for the content, accuracy, policies, availability or practices of third-party websites or platforms. Access to those resources is subject to their own terms and policies.
Contributors, sponsors and collaborating organizations are identified in the relevant content or project where applicable. Their involvement does not imply endorsement of all content published by Animal Nutrition Academy.
Similarly, a reference to an organization, product, service or publication does not by itself imply sponsorship, endorsement or a commercial relationship.
11. No warranties
This website and its content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, Animal Nutrition Academy makes no warranties, express or implied, regarding the accuracy, completeness, reliability, suitability, availability or fitness for a particular purpose of content published on the website.
No guarantee is made that the website will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, error-free or free from technical problems.
12. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Animal Nutrition Academy, the editor, contributors and any persons or entities associated with the preparation, publication, maintenance or availability of this website shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, commercial, professional, production-related, financial, reputational, regulatory or other loss arising from the use of, reliance on, interpretation of or inability to access this website or its content.
This includes, but is not limited to, losses related to feed formulation, ingredient selection, feed manufacturing, animal performance, animal health, production outcomes, veterinary decisions, regulatory interpretation, business decisions, commercial transactions, third-party reliance or the application of general information to a specific case, animal, herd, flock, farm, company, product, market or jurisdiction.
Accessing or using website content does not, by itself, create a professional obligation, advisory relationship, consulting relationship or commercial relationship.
Any separately agreed services or projects are governed by their respective agreements. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
13. User responsibility
Users are responsible for ensuring that their use of this website and its materials complies with applicable laws, regulations, professional standards and internal policies.
Users are also responsible for confirming whether information is appropriate for the species, production system, region, feed ingredients, regulatory environment and commercial conditions relevant to their own work.
Users should distinguish between research findings, professional interpretation, industry commentary and general educational information, taking account of the context and date of publication.
14. Changes to these Terms
Animal Nutrition Academy may update or revise these Terms of Use from time to time.
The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date. Continued use of the website after changes means that you accept the updated Terms, subject to applicable law.
15. Artificial intelligence, text and data mining, and automated use
To the extent permitted by applicable law, Animal Nutrition Academy expressly reserves its rights concerning the use of protected website content for artificial intelligence, machine learning, text and data mining, automated analysis, dataset creation, model training, model fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation, indexing for AI systems and similar automated or computational purposes.
Except where permitted by applicable law or separately authorized in writing, protected content may not be copied, scraped, harvested, extracted, downloaded in bulk, reproduced, stored, processed or made available for the development, training, fine-tuning, testing, validation, benchmarking, operation or improvement of artificial intelligence systems, machine learning models, datasets, databases or automated tools.
Permission may be granted only in relation to rights that Animal Nutrition Academy owns or is authorized to license. Separate permission may be required from other rights holders.
This section does not restrict ordinary lawful reading, individual downloads expressly permitted by these Terms, or uses protected by mandatory exceptions or limitations under applicable law.
16. Governing law
These Terms are subject to applicable law and any mandatory legal requirements.
Any dispute arising from the use of this website, its content or these Terms shall be handled by the competent courts or authorities determined under applicable law.
17. Contact and permissions
Questions about these Terms of Use, copyright, permissions, corrections or website content may be directed to:
Ioannis Mavromichalis, MSc, PhD
Email: [email protected]
When contacting Animal Nutrition Academy about specific content, please include the relevant title, website address, publication date and any volume, issue number or page reference where available.
Requests concerning publishing collaborations, sponsored educational projects, syndication or other commercial arrangements should identify the proposed project and intended use. Such arrangements require a separate agreement.