From: Dr. Clifford Adams Invitation
More than 10 years ago, I put forward a theory of Total Nutrition. This advocated the use of nutrients and bioactive feed ingredients, nutricines, in order to maintain animal health, reduce animal stress and minimise the use of antibiotics. In modern animal production, we still face many problems such as low quality and unstable feed ingredients which lead to poor feed utilization and excessive discharge of nitrogen and phosphorus into the environment. We have high incidence of disease coupled with a widespread and extensive use of antibiotics. Total Nutrition focuses on the use of nutricines such as emulsifiers and enzymes which improve energy and protein utilization and...
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