Seeing into the ‘black box’ of feed additives

How groundbreaking work in Greece led by Prof. Kostas Mountzouris is going to make feed additive evaluation much faster. It’s well known in livestock production that an animal’s immune system function – specifically the extent of inflammatory response in the gut and elsewhere – affects its health and performance. That’s why interest in how feed ingredients and additives can support a reduction in inflammation continues to grow. You feed them [feed additives] to an animal, and you do