Due to the ban on the in-feed use of antibiotics in
European and other parts of the world, several studies have
demonstrated the beneficial effects of oligosaccharides on
growth performance and intestinal bacteria balance in weanling
pigs (Lemieux and Bidner, 2003; Rozeboom et al., 2005).
However, the growth promoting effects of oligosaccharides
are inconsistent in some studies (Houdijk et al., 1998;
Mikkelsen et al., 2003)