Bacteriophages hold great commercial promise in disease prevention and control and in food safety assurance. Rainer Engelhardt and Bruno Rochet explain how Gangagen and Lallemand have joined forces to make the most of this ancient antibacterial.

01 aug 2005

The piglet is born in a state of iron deficiency, normally rectified in practice by injection. In nature, however, oral intake is adequate. Research into iron absorption means that new oral supplements can be developed.

01 jun 2005

In piglet rearing, several problems occur: A lack of teats to accommodate the entire litter; milk quality differs markedly between teats and the litter hierarchy leaves the lower-quality milk to the weaker piglets, which can be detrimental and result...

01 feb 2005

Pig meat is not the first culprit that springs to mind when thinking of he salmonella risk to human consumers. But it is still a risk and most contamination arises at the farm level. Sarah Mellor caught up with Hendrix UTD's Maarten van der Heijden i...

01 feb 2005

The action of probiotics is commonly assumed to occur in the gastrointestinal tract rather than in the feed. However, the development of liquid feeding systems for pigs has attracted attention in recent years, as probiotic activity can begin even bef...

01 apr 2004

Persuading piglets to eat enough during the distractions and stresses of weaning is not an easy task. Further problems develop the longer feed intake is depressed, due to the sensitive nature of the development intestinal epithelium. Feed formulation...

01 apr 2004

The main aim of using chelated trace elements as opposed to their inorganic forms is not always to increase performance, but rather to maintain high levels of performance whilst conforming to ever tightening regulations to protect the environment. Th...

01 aug 2003

The application of fibres in diets for broilers, piglets and breeding sows is more about the physical properties of the fibre than any nutritional value they may have. Raw fibre concentrates maintain their most valuable properties whilst eliminatin...

01 apr 2003

01 feb 2003

A deeper understanding of the localised intestinal immune response to a variety of pathogens has led to the development of specific antibodies for feed applications. Of these, hyper-immunised eggs have emerged as the most successful, not least bec...

01 feb 2003