How farmers across Europe are preparing for a future beyond zinc

摘要

It is not just in the UK, of course, that pig producers are contemplating life beyond zinc. Zinc oxide has typically been used in piglet diets across the EU for the prevention of post-weaning diarrhoea and bowel oedema disease in pigs.Currently, producers are able to use therapeutic levels of zinc (up to 2,500ppm), but by 2022 this will be significantly reduced to a maximum addition rate of 110ppm (150ppm total) due the EU-wide changes agreed in 2017.