Introduction to Feed Additives
Feed AdditivesRefer to the small or trace substances added during the production, processing, and use of feed. Although they are present in small amounts in the feed, their effects are significant. Feed additives are an unavoidable raw material in modern feed industry. They play a significant role in enhancing the nutritional value of basic feed, improving animal production performance, ensuring animal health, saving feed costs, and improving the quality of animal products.
Feed Additives;Introduction
Feed AdditivesRefer to the small or trace substances added during the production, processing, and use of feed. Although they are present in small amounts in the feed, their effects are significant. Feed additives are an unavoidable raw material in modern feed industry. They play a significant role in enhancing the nutritional value of basic feed, improving animal production performance, ensuring animal health, saving feed costs, and improving the quality of animal products.
Feed additives are divided into microbial feed additives and other feed additives. Among them, microbial feed additives are microbial products that replace or balance one or more strains in the animal ecosystem. In a narrow sense, it is a microbial product that can stimulate the reproduction and growth of beneficial bacteria and resist the growth of harmful bacteria. Microbial feed additives contain a large number of beneficial bacteria.(Lactic acid bacteria, bifidobacteria, bacillus), complex enzymes, chelated peptides, mold inhibitors, etc. They can rapidly reproduce after entering livestock and poultry as feed. The metabolic products of the strains and the intestinal toxins inhibit the growth of other harmful bacteria on one hand, and on the other hand, they form a normal microbial flora in the host, synthesize essential vitamins for the host, provide nutrition, and prevent pathogenic bacteria from invading.
InFeed Additivesthe production and use of feed additives, the following issues exist:
1.The abuse of antibiotics and hormones in feed additives during the early production of feed additives. This low-dose antibiotic can disrupt the ecological balance between microorganisms in the natural environment.(Including pathogenic microorganisms), and produce residues in food, severely affecting the treatment of human diseases and human genetics.
2.Excessive or insufficient amounts of certain trace elements. Common trace elements used in feed additives include iron, copper, manganese, zinc, iodine, selenium, etc. These elements exist in the body in the form of ions, molecules, or complex compounds, and their biochemical effects vary in different states. Too little can lead to deficiency, while too much can cause toxicity or imbalance. Therefore, the content must be appropriate and mixed evenly; otherwise, it will produce the opposite effect.
3.Feed additives have a positive effect on balancing diets and promoting livestock and poultry production and growth. Generally, they increase production by5%-25%...
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