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COMPOSITIONOF WET MILLEDFEED PRODUCTSmay be diverted to makesweeteners or further processedto make any common(unmodified) corn starch.Various modified orderivatized starches may beproduced by treating theslurry of washed starch withchemicals or enzymes. Aftertreatment, the products arerecovered by filtration orcentrifugation and the starchis dried. Information on thestarch and sweetener productsof the corn wet millingindustry may be found in thebooklets Corn Starch andNutritive Sweeteners fromCorn available from theCorn Refiners Associationwebsite, www.corn.org.The four major feed productsderived from corn wetmilling are described as followsby the Corn RefinersAssociation:Corn gluten feed is thatpart of commercial shelledcorn and process residualsthat remain after the extractionof the larger portion ofthe starch, gluten and germby the process employed inthe wet milling manufactureof corn starch and cornstarch derivatives. It may ormay not be pelletized, andmay or may not containcorn steep liquor and/orcorn germ meal. It may containup to 0.5 percent byweight of a nutritive or nonnutritive,inert, non-toxicconditioning agent to improveflowability. It may notcontain other products thatare blended or admixed afterits initial manufacture, orafter pelleting.Corn gluten feed is a mediumprotein, medium energyingredient. It is widelyused in complete feeds orconcentrate for dairy andbeef cattle, poultry (layerand turkey breeders), swine,and as a carrier for addedmicronutrients. It is commonlyprovided at around 20percent protein at 10 percentmoisture.A number of facilities alsooffer wet corn gluten feed.Wet corn gluten feed ismade by screening and pressingwet corn fiber to reducethe water content. It can besold as is, or combined withsteep liquor, corn germ mealor fermentation residues toproduce a product with approximately40 to 60 percentdry matter. Wet corn glutenfeed is commonly used indiets for feedlot cattle anddairy cattle.Corn gluten feed is a majorproduct in internationaltrade in feed ingredients andlarge volumes of U.S. corngluten feed are exported to8

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