Natural components in foods and feeds represent additional
hurdle technologies that may complement or act
synergistically with traditional intervention approaches.
Certainly there is need to continue to identify such compounds
to provide alternatives to some of the more overused
antimicrobial compounds currently available. In
addition, some of these natural compounds may exhibit
antimicrobial properties that differ mechanistically from
other antimicrobials being used. This becomes important
given the capabilities of most pathogens to not only produce
mechanisms of resistance to various compounds but
for at least some of these mechanisms, once expressed, to
provide cross-protection to other intervention methods.