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...

background: in nature, there are herbal extracts, while capable of reducing aflatoxin b1 in agricultural product by different mechanisms, may also act as growth promoters. objectives: in this study, aqueous extract of t. daenensis was evaluated to detoxify contaminated feed with aflatoxin b1 and to determine the effect of growth promoters in japanese quail. methods: to this purpose, at 24 d of ...