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Phytogenics in poultry nutrition
Phytogenics, also known as phytobiotics, are natural bioactive compounds of botanical origin that are used as alternatives to antibiotic growth promoters (AGPs) and are added to feed to enhance animal performance. Although phytogenics encompass a wide variety of substances of biological origin, formulation, chemical characterization, and purity, they can be classified into four groups: (1) herbs (products obtained from flowering, woody, and nonperennial plants); (2) botanicals (whole or processed parts of a plant, such as roots, leaves, tree bark, and spices); (3) essential oils (hydro-distilled extracts of volatile plant compounds); and (4) oleoresins (anhydrous solvent-based extracts). These plant-derived products do not contain residues, are natural, and are less toxic than synthetic antibiotics or inorganic chemicals. Many are generally recognized as safe (GRAS) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and can be used as feed additives in animal nutrition.
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Inflammation is a complex biological reaction to a harmful event, such as the presence of pathogens, toxins, or damaged cells. It involves the innate immune system, the blood vessels, and molecular mediators, promoting radical changes in the architecture and function of the tissue. Although inflammation is a...
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As is widely recognized, phytogenics have antibacterial properties and can replace antibiotic growth promoters. However, it is less known that, when antibiotic therapy is necessary, phytogenics and antibiotics act in synergy, increasing the effectiveness of the antibiotic. When phytogenics and antibiotics are...
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PhytoShield© is an oral emulsion that contains essential oils, electrolytes and vitamins intended to promote growth, reduce oxidative stress, and keep the animals hydrated....
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Essential oils are concentrated hydrophobic liquids containing volatile aroma compounds from plants. They are usually obtained by distillation, extraction with liquid carbon dioxide or microwaving....
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The positive action of essential oils on gut health is explained by a large number of beneficial effects that go beyond antimicrobial activity....
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In the recent decades, the problem of antibiotic resistance is worsening fast, due to the misuse of antibiotics in human beings and in farm animals, and to the fact that it is difficult for the pharmaceutical industry to market new antibiotics. It is estimated that 1.2 million people worldwide die of antibiotic resistance every year....
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Since antibiotic growth promoters (AGP) were banned in Europe in 2006, phytogenics have emerged as an effective alternative and their use is becoming widespread.
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INTRODUCTION The global production of chicken eggs is constantly increasing, e.g., 37.4 million tons of chicken-eggs were produced in 1990, and 80 million tons in 2018. The WHO has estimated that production will have to increase four-fold to meet the global demand for chicken eggs in the next two decades (1, 2). Hence, the poultry industry must be increasingly efficient despite being one of the most efficient and technologically advanced animal production activities...
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Current market review and perspective of Florfenicol, Tilmicocin, vitamins and aminoacids
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Introduction In recent years, there has been increasing concern over the indiscriminate use of antibiotics in livestock production due to the possible emergence of multi-drug resistance, dangers of environmental pollution and toxic residue in animal products (Diarra and Malouin, 2014; Alagbe, 2019). Consumption of animal products (meat, milk and eggs) with residues of antibiotics can actually have a negative impact on human health (Oluwafemi et al., 2021). Plants produce primary...
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Chicken eggs for human consumption are exceedingly nutritious, palatable, reasonable priced, and commonly accessible around the world. There is an increasing demand for enriched and functional foods for human consumption that provide various beneficial effects in addition to the nutritive and non-nutritive compounds important to human health 1 . Eggs can be enriched with certain nutrients through dietary manipulation to create speciality or functional food products that provide...
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Bacillus amyloliquefaciens CECT 5940 (Ecobiol®) go beyond performance in broilers under enteric pathogen challenge compared to antibiotic growth promoter and other commercially available probiotics
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A feeding study was conducted to examine the efficacy of a synergistic blend of feed additives on growth performance, livability, gut integrity, immunity, caecal microflora and footpad health in broilers challenged with subclinical necrotic enteritis (NE). Additives were: A) synergistic blend of medium chain fatty acids (MCFA), slow-release C12, target release butyrates, organic acids (OA) and a phenolic compound; B) synergistic blend of partly buffered OA with MCFA; C) synergistic blend of...
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I. INTRODUCTION Oregano essential oil contains many compounds, of which carvacrol, thymol and their precursors are the major components, accounting for approximately 80% of the contents. Carvacrol and thymol have been shown to actively disrupt the cell membranes of bacteria leading to cell death, promoting the use of oregano as a phytobiotic (Rao et al., 2010). Phytoadditives such as oregano are becoming more popular as organic and natural alternatives to antibiotics....
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This study evaluated the effect of probiotics, a prebiotic and essential oil blend and their combination on the growth of Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) in a digestive assay mimicking three digestive compartments of the poultry digestive tract: crop, proventriculus, and intestine. A poultry commensal Lactobacillus reuteri (LR) and SE strain were utilized. The prebiotic product was included at 0.025% (w/w) and probiotic product, a combination of 3 strains of Bacillus ...
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Fatty liver hemorrhagic syndrome in poultry. Plusvet Animal Heath presents the summary of causes of the disease, control and solutions, in one minute....
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In hot environments, animals are prone to change their feeding patterns: the processes of digestion and nutrient absorption produce metabolic heat and, to control body temperature, animals limit feed consumption....
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Introducing Afla-V ONE: Fast, precise aflatoxin detection for complete feeds and pet foods
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I. INTRODUCTION Throughout the world, poultry are a major and growing source of high-quality protein, as they outperform all other terrestrial meat production systems in water, feed, carbon, and land use efficiency. A challenge for intensive production systems has been the potential to introduce high pathogen loads and stresses on the animals. Such challenges have traditionally been managed with the assistance of antibacterial growth promoters. However, the poultry...
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Summary: Poultry production and performance is affected by various factors including exposure to biotic and abiotic stressors. Most of these stressors, affects the immune homeostasis of the poultry birds leading to poor production performance and mortality. Hence, its important to modulate the host immune response, to obtain optimal performance. Phytogenics is one of the effective and important immune modulators, used to overcome immune stress. These are capable of acting in...
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