Empowering gut health to control Salmonella

Salmonella can cause morbidity and mortality in humans and livestock. Research shows empowering natural defence mechanisms in broilers’ guts can improve upon conventional feed and/or water acidification approaches to control enteric pathogens. As the primary infection route occurs through faecal-oral transmission, the hygiene of raw materials, poultry feed and drinking water is a prerequisite to prevent the vertical and horizontal spread of Salmonella. Organic acids have long been used as ant