Potassium Diformate : A New Alternative To Antibiotic Growth Promoters

Potassium Diformate : a New Alternative to Antibiotic Growth Promoters

Potassium diformate (Formi) is odorless, low-corrosive and easy to handle. The European Union (EU) has approved it as non-antibiotic growth promoter, for use in non ruminant feeds. Maximum inclusion level of potassium diformate is 1.8% as registered by the European authorities which can improve weight gain up to 14%. Potassium diformate contains the active ingredients free formic acid as well a...

Antibiotic growth promoters.

Sir, I was dismayed to see that Phillips et al. were defending what nearly all microbiologists know are grave abuses of antibiotics— their continuous use in feed as growth promoters and the needless widespread use of broad spectrum agents (fluoroquinolones). This is despite their acknowledgement that ‘the more an antibiotic is used, the more likely are resistant populations to develop’ and that...

Corrigendum: Phytogenic Feed Additives as an Alternative to Antibiotic Growth Promoters in Broiler Chickens

[This corrects the article on p. 21 in vol. 2, PMID: 26664950.].

Antibiotic Growth Promoters in animal production

Antibiotic Growth-Promoters in Food Animals

By Peter Hughes and John Heritage, University of Leeds, UK There has been a developing controversy surrounding the use of antibiotics as growth promoters for food animals. These drugs are used at low doses in animal feeds and are considered to improve the quality of the product, with a lower percentage of fat and a higher protein content in the meat. Other benefits of the use of antibiotic grow...