Elham Assadi Soumeh

Poultry meat is a particularly important protein source as broilers have a high feed efficiency and short production cycle compared to other animal products, making it an affordable, nutritious source of animal protein (Marangoni et al., 2015). Therefore, strategies to improve production performance of broilers will require significant research as this is key to future food security. One nutrition ...

I. INTRODUCTIONAntibiotics as growth promoters (AGPs) have been extensively used at sub-therapeutic levels in poultry production to prevent diseases and promote growth performance. However, the persistent use of antibiotics can increase antibiotic-resistant bacteria and antibiotic residue accumulation in the animal products as well as potentially transferring resistant strains to humans through th ...