Evaluating research on feed additives

Additives are often in the focus of modern research efforts worldwide as their trade plays a major part in international animal nutrition business. For most additives, results under most practical conditions remain largely inconclusive and quite often difficult to evaluate. By Ioannis Mavromichalis The inconclusiveness of trial results could be the result of the fact that conditions under which they might be beneficial are difficult to understand without a rigorous scientific trial design and