Can adding feed additive potassium diformate help poultry and livestock adapt to the "ban on antibiotics" process in feed?

 In recent years, the drug resistance situation of animal-derived bacteria has been severe. On the one hand, the resistance of shared antimicrobials between humans and animals has increased, threatening human life and medical resources. On the other hand, the drug resistance of animal-specific antimicrobials is also increasing year by year, increasing the cost of breeding, but also affecting food safety and public health safety. Therefore, it is wise to regulate the use of antibiotics and to "ban resistance" and "reducing resistance" in the breeding industry. How to add feed additive potassium diformate to allow livestock to adapt to the process of "ban on antibiotics" to feed?

First of all, farmers have to face up to the changes it brings, especially to understand the impact of the current feed "ban on antibiotics".

First, the production level of the aquaculture industry has decreased within a certain period of time, and the cost of aquaculture has increased significantly. In other words, the decrease in the use of antibiotics in the feed reduces the resistance of pigs to pathogenic bacteria for a certain period of time, the possibility of disease is increased, and the breeding level faces the risk of decline.

Second, there has been a substantial increase in the antibiotics used for treatment in farms within a certain period of time, and the total amount of antibiotics used by the animal husbandry industry may not decrease but increase at the initial stage of the "ban on resistance" of feed. It is also easier to understand that the reduction of antibiotics in feed has increased the number of diseases. Then the breeding end should add appropriate amount of additives to replace antibiotics from the initial stage to reduce the occurrence of diseases.

Third, veterinary drug manufacturers change their business strategies to develop and produce more substitute products to meet market demand.

Fourth, feed manufacturers adjust the feed formula to ensure that the feed has a better effect.

The impact of feed "ban resistance" may be more than these, but the process of transformation is likely to be more difficult. How to adapt to this transformation process?

The process of how to adapt to this transformation is to use the correct and suitable alternative antibiotic additives to reduce the occurrence of diseases in poultry and livestock. In July 2001, the European Union approved potassium diformate as the first alternative to antibiotic growth promoters for pig feed. In April 2003, the European Union passed the guiding regulations again, approving the increase of the maximum safe addition amount of commercial potassium diformate for piglets and growing pigs to 1.8%-1.2%. In July 2005, the European Union issued a supplementary committee regulation in time and approved it. Potassium diformate is used as a growth promoter in sow feed.

It is generally believed that the improvement of production performance after adding antibiotics to feed is related to the suppression of subclinical infections. Therefore, the reason why potassium diformate has the growth-promoting effect of antibiotics is actually its strong killing effect on pathogenic bacteria in the intestinal tract. Its unique antimicrobial function is based on the combined effects of formic acid and formate.

Potassium diformate feed additive is highly acidic and is slowly released in the digestive tract. It has a high buffering capacity and can avoid excessive fluctuations in the acidity of the animal's gastrointestinal tract. The main purpose is to inhibit bacteria and kill bacteria, and improve the intestinal microflora.

Farmers know that the key to keeping the intestines of poultry and livestock is the key to human nutrition. The same goes for animals. The feed eaten by chickens and pigs needs to pass through the intestines to be converted into nutrients and be absorbed and utilized by the body. With healthy intestines, poultry and livestock will be better transformed during the antibiotic transition period. Therefore, it is still necessary to add potassium diformate feed additive to smoothly pass the transition process of feed "ban on antibiotics".