Phytogenic feed additives are plant-derived products used in animal feeding to improve the performance of agricultural livestock. This class of feed additives has recently gained increasing interest, especially for use in swine and poultry, as can be derived from a significant increase in the number of scientific publications since 2000. This appears to be strongly driven by the ban on most of the antibiotic feed additives within the European Union in 1999, a complete ban enforced in 2006, and ongoing discussions to restrict their use outside the European Union because of speculated risk for generating
antibiotic resistance in pathogenic microbiota. In this context, phytogenic feed additives are discussed possibly to add to the set of nonantibiotic growth promoters,such as organic acids and probiotics, which are already well established in animal nutrition
Phytogenic feed additives are plant-derived products used in animal feeding to improve the performance of agricultural livestock. This class of feed additives has recently gained increasing interest, especially for use in swine and poultry, as can be derived from a significant increase in the number of scientific publications since 2000. This appears to be strongly driven by the ban on most of the antibiotic feed additives within the European Union in 1999, a complete ban enforced in 2006, and ongoing discussions to restrict their use outside the European Union because of speculated risk for generatingantibiotic resistance in pathogenic microbiota. In this context, phytogenic feed additives are discussed possibly to add to the set of nonantibiotic growth promoters,such as organic acids and probiotics, which are already well established in animal nutrition
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