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Article: Vitamin E, salicylate may increase turkey immunity. (Nutrition And Health/Poultry).
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- November 3, 2003
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There is a need to evaluate potential antibiotic alternatives to improve disease resistance in high-intensity food animal production. Nutritional and non-nutritional approaches to counteract the debilitating effects of stress and infection may provide producers with useful alternatives to antibiotics.
Regulatory pressures to limit antibiotic use in livestock and recent international marketing agreements that prohibit treating poultry with antibiotics have limited the disease-fighting tools available to poultry and livestock producers. There is a need to evaluate potential antibiotic alternatives to improve disease resistance in high-intensity food animal ...