Health Monitoring

Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Effect of diet supplementation with chelated zinc, copper and manganese on hoof lesions of loose housed sows
Hoof lesions are very common among sows and have been associated with lameness, early removal and compromised welfare and productivity. Although housing conditions and management can have an external effect on hoof health status, the role o ...
Thursday, June 8, 2017
Chelated Trace Minerals Boost Piglet Immunity, Growth
For decades, the global swine industry fed low levels of certain antibiotics to pigs to maintain gut health and improve growth. However, concerns about antibiotic resistance in humans and antibiotic use in animals have resulted in tightened ...
Thursday, December 15, 2016
Modeling the transboundary risk of feed ingredients contaminated with porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus
Background: This study describes a model developed to evaluate the transboundary risk of PEDV-contaminated swine feed ingredients and the effect of two mitigation strategies during a simulated transport event from China to the US.
Thursday, December 8, 2016
Reducing antibiotic use in animal production systems
ATIMICROBIAL DRUGS are commonly used for animals raised in food production for treatment, control, and prevention of disease as well as growth promotion or increased feed efficiency in many production systems. A recent report from the USDA ...
Monday, November 7, 2016
Merial's VAXXITEK HVT+IBD for poultry
Significant economic losses are attributed to immunosuppression in the poultry industry worldwide. Exposure to stressors in the poultry production environment, along with infectious diseases (viral or bacterial) that impair immunity, contri ...
Monday, November 7, 2016
MSD Animal Health: Poultry health in an antibiotic-free (ABF) production environment
A new generation of consumers is changing the way that poultry meat has been produced for decades. Especially in developed countries, the increasing demand for healthier food products and lifestyle is leading to a bigger and faster market g ...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
The Use of Antibiotics in Shrimp Farming
Global aquaculture has grow dramatically over the past 50 years to around 52.5 million tones in 2008 worth US$98.5 billon and accounting for around 50 per cent of the world's food fish supply. Asia dominates this production, account ...
Friday, August 12, 2016
FEFAC vision on feed safety management
The premixture & compound feed manufacturing industry is an essential element of the feed chain, sourcing ingredients from a large spectrum of suppliers and delivering to millions of farmers a compound feed which is expected to be safe.
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Optimize sow performance through efficient mineral supplementation
For many decades the focus for sow farmers has been on increasing the number of total weaned piglets per sow per year. This number has been steadily rising, with more and more farmers now reaching the impressive number of 35 piglets weaned ...
Friday, May 27, 2016
Review on mycotoxin issues in ruminants: occurrence in forages, effects of mycotoxin ingestion on health status and animal performance and practical strategies to counteract their negative effects
Ruminant diets include cereals, protein feeds, their by-products as well as hay and grass, grass/legume, whole-crop maize, small grain or sorghum silages. Furthermore, ruminants are annually or seasonally fed with grazed forage in many part ...
Monday, May 16, 2016
Enhancement of vibriosis resistance in Litopenaeus vannamei by supplementation of biomastered silver nanoparticles by Bacillus subtilis
Shrimp production is devastated by vibriosis in much of aquaculture production around the world. These pathogens are highly virulent and cause serious viral outbreaks in shrimp culture. The potential antibacterial effects of Bacillus subtil ...
Thursday, May 12, 2016
European Feed Manufacturers' Guide (EFMC)
The industrial compound feed sector is a significant link in the production chain of food products from animal origin. Producing safe feed and food products is first and foremost a question of good management practices at each stage of the ...
Thursday, May 12, 2016
Carcinogen role of food by mycotoxins and knowledge gap
Good agricultural practices (GAPs), good manufacturing practices (GMPs), HACCP (Hazard Analytical Critical Control Point), biological control measures and transgenic approaches, are actually the only realistic and possible form of primary p ...
Friday, May 6, 2016
Characteristics of mycotoxin analysis tools for tomorrow
Of all mycotoxins, the aflatoxins are the major concerns as they are mutagenic, carcinogenic, teratogenic and immunosuppressive compounds. Consumption even at very low concentration may cause serious health problems. For the aforementioned ...
Friday, May 6, 2016
Simultaneous detection method for mycotoxins and their metabolites in animal urine by using impurity adsorption purification followed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass detection
A novel method for simultaneous detection of mycotoxins (e.g., aflatoxin B1) or their metabolic residues in animal urine with impurity adsorption purification followed ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled tandem mass spectrometry ...

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