“…The process serves to upgrade dietary protein of low biological value into microbial protein of reasonably good biological value (McNaught, Owen, Henry & Kon, 1954;Bergen, Purser & Cline, 1967) but clearly the degradation of feed protein of high biological value is disadvantageous. This latter consideration has led to many attempts to 'protect' certain dietary proteins from ruminal degradation by a variety of chemical and physical techniques (see (Chalmers, Cuthbertson & Synge, 1954 Zelter, Leroy & Tissier, 1970), and the treatment of casein with formaldehyde has proved particularly useful (Ferguson, Hemsley & Reis, 1967;Reis & Tunks, 1969). The effectiveness of these procedures may be assessed direct by measuring the amounts of feed protein reaching the duodenum in animals prepared with duodenal fistulas, but in only a few instances has it proved possible to assay feed protein in the digesta.…”