Animal Nutrition

The formulation of animal nutrition products based on essential oils requires a great deal of know-how, and means that rules have to be followed before stable, industrialisable solutions can be achieved, with a guarantee of the bioavailability of the active ingredients and the correct dosage once in the feed or drinking water.

The use of antibiotics as growth promoters, suspected of contributing significantly to the increase in pathogen resistance, was banned by the European Union in 2006.