This paper presents Salmonella data from animals, feedstuffs and feed mills in Sweden between 1993 and 1997.
Additionally, the fact that small ruminants were exposed to BSE-contaminated food before the exclusion of meat and bone meal from ruminant feedstuffs led to the possibility that sheep and goats on commercial farms could be affected by BSE that could be misdiagnosed as scrapie (13, 14 ).
Improving laying hen performance may be achieved by maximizing nutrient utilization from current feedstuff.
The demand for feedstuffs in Nigeria is derived predominantly from the livestock and poultry feed industries, and is met either by domestic production and/or imports.
Human-edible inputs were calculated for 2 different scenarios based on minimum and maximum potential recovery rates of human-edible energy and protein from the respective feedstuffs.
Phosphorus (P) from plant-derived feedstuffs is mainly in the form of phytic-P, which has a very low bioavailability in monogastric animals.
Another 11 diets, one for each ingredient (soybean meal, toasted full-fat soybean, soybean hulls, two types of sunflower meal (280 and 360 g/kg CP), peas, alfalfa meal, wheat, wheat shorts, maize, and corn gluten feed), were formulated in order to get the maximal proportion of the protein from the tested feedstuffs studied maintaining the chemical composition and dietary nitrogen endogenous flow.
The estimation of the digestibility and metabolizable energy content of ruminant feedstuffs from the gas production when they are incubated with rumen liquor in vitro.
Nevertheless, it is to be underlined the fact that commonly the particle size distribution is assessed on feedstuffs from the market, as final products, when the pelleting phase already occurred: an appropriate management of the ulcerogenic risk of diet should address the grinding intensity in the pre-pelleting phase of the process as a critical control point (CCP).
Butter was reported as contaminated with PCDD/Fs in Germany from contaminated citrus pulp feedstuff from Brazil (Malisch 2000; Malisch et al. 2000; Muller et al. 2001).
