Topical nutrition issues addressed

摘要

Recently Alltech held their 23rd International Feed Industry Symposium in Lexington, Kentucky, USA and well over 1,500 delegates from 78 countries attended. Various papers were presented in the pig sessions and the key points from these are summarisedin this article. In an interesting and thought provoking presentation Francois Madec of the French Food Safety Agency asked the question why did PMWS arise? She cited five hypotheses which she felt were not mutually exclusive. These were: The porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) changed so that PMWS was, in fact, induced by a new specific strain.