One of the PIGgest challenges: PWD

Novel strategies need to be implemented to support piglets in stressful and challenging post-weaning conditions. Phytogenic substances have shown to be potential options to support intestinal integrity hence lowering diarrhoea incidence after weaning and maintaining piglet performance. Farmers are getting worried; the legal restrictions on using the antibiotic agent Colistin are becoming more of a reality – and not only in the EU. In 2016, China banned Colistin in livestock production, where