Health Monitoring

Friday, May 7, 2021
Recognising the warning signs of mycotoxins in pigs
Produced by filamentous fungi (moulds) that are ever-present in nature, under the right conditions, mycotoxins have the potential to proliferate and contaminate almost all feedstuffs used in pig production. Mycotoxins are not unique to spec ...
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Tenuazonic acid most frequent mycotoxin detected in Asian livestock blood
Fusarium and Aspergillus mycotoxins are often considered the most common and critical mycotoxins in grains and feed. However, Alternaria fungi, where the most predominant is A. alternata, have also a large presence in wheat, sorghum and bar ...
Thursday, January 7, 2021
Reinforcing calves immunity and improving gut microbiota balance to safeguard health and performance
The digestive tract of calves, as other young ruminants, is particularly sensitive to challenges. Indeed, during the first months of life, their digestive tract undergoes significant and extensive changes as it evolves from its initial mono ...
Thursday, January 7, 2021
Weaning management of beef calves with implications for animal health and welfare
Weaning is a necessary husbandry practice in which nutritional, social, physical and psychological stressors are imposed on the beef calf causing alterations in behavioural and physiological responses. The present paper is a review of studi ...
Thursday, October 1, 2020
Case study: pathology and histopathology as a tool for diagnosis of reproductive disorders in pigs related to mycotoxins
In the current world pork industry requires greater efficiency in production parameters. Reproductive problems occupy an important place since they directly influence the number of piglets produced per sow per year. The risk factors in repr ...
Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Microbiome of Pacific Whiteleg shrimp reveals differential bacterial community composition between Wild, Aquacultured and AHPND/EMS outbreak conditions
Crustaceans form the second largest subphylum on Earth, which includes Litopeneaus vannamei (Pacific whiteleg shrimp), one of the most cultured shrimp worldwide. Despite efforts to study the shrimp microbiota, little is known about it from ...
Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Biomarkers for monitoring intestinal health in poultry: Present status and future perspectives
Intestinal health is determined by host (immunity, mucosal barrier), nutritional, microbial and environmental factors. Deficiencies in intestinal health are associated with shifts in the composition of the intestinal microbiome (dysbiosis), ...
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Food safety governance in China: From supervision to coregulation
The food control and regulatory system in China is beset by several challenges. While firms have to reduce their costs in pursuit of benefits, customers are increasingly focusing on safety and quality of food products. Although the Chinese ...
Monday, June 29, 2020
Safer post-harvest processing, proper storage and transport of broiler products to the retail markets
The growing number of foodborne infections is rising competitively with consumer demands and growth of poultry products. The significant increase in the number of reported foodborne disease outbreaks specifically caused by Salmonella and Ca ...
Monday, June 29, 2020
Internet of Things in food safety: Literature review and a bibliometric analysis
IoT in food safety is a relatively new approach; the first article appeared in 2011 and has increased since then. Majority of these studies were performed by Chinese universities and the main IoT applications reported were on food supply ch ...
Friday, March 20, 2020
Review: innovation through research in the North American pork industry
This article involved a broad search of applied sciences for milestone technologies we deem to be the most significant innovations applied by the North American pork industry, during the past 10 to 12 years. Several innovations shifted the ...
Friday, March 20, 2020
Seroprevalences of multi-pathogen and description of farm movement in pigs in two provinces in Vietnam
In Vietnam, lack of animal health information is considered a major challenge for pig production. The main objective of this study was to assess the seroprevalences of five pathogens [porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2), porcine reproductive a ...
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Ayucee: A perfect replacement of Synthetic Vitamin C
Role of Vitamin C is very well known to all. With other essential functions as vitamins, it also has a very role as antioxidant and stress buster. Although most of the farm animals can synthesize vitamin C in the body due to the presence of ...
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Enhancing tolerance of broiler chickens to heat stress by supplementation with vitamin E, vitamin C and/or probiotics
Heat stress is one of the major challenges which the poultry industry faces during summer in tropical and subtropical regions. This study was conducted to evaluate the impact of Vitamin (Vit) E, C and/or probiotics on improving tolerance of ...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
The nutrition effect and formulations application of trace elements (for ruminants and aquaculture)
The use of organic mineral (OM) has been recently introduced in aquaculture both as feed supplement and water quality improvement. A feeding experiment was conducted to evaluate a response dose of OM on growth, survival, and mineral content ...

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