Moenimycin is used in animal feed as a growth promoter.
If the drugs are shown to foster bacterial resistance, they could be banned from use as growth promoters in animals.
Sometimes we can't get the right combination of growth promoters together to get the tissue to grow.
So, the goal of antibiotics as a growth promoter is the same as for probiotics.
Possible alternatives to the use of antibiotics as growth promoters.
The Commission is also to push for sanctions against the manufacture, sale and use of illegal growth promoters.
For pigs, copper has been shown to be an outstanding growth promoter.
The major issue in this report is a ban on the use of antibiotics as growth promoters in agricultural production.
At present, four antibiotics are authorised for use in animal feed as growth promoters.
The illegal use of growth promoters in the beef industry remains a very serious problem.