Boosting poultry gut integrity with a source of charcoal

10-08-2021 | | |
Like many products, the quality of the raw materials influences the qualilty of the final product and its properties. PCMs can be produced from many different materials, ranging from bituminous coal to pristine wood sources. Photo: Svetlana Kolpakova
Like many products, the quality of the raw materials influences the qualilty of the final product and its properties. PCMs can be produced from many different materials, ranging from bituminous coal to pristine wood sources. Photo: Svetlana Kolpakova
Pyrogenic carbonaceous materials (PCMs), otherwise known as charcoal, can bind harmful compounds and boost gut integrity. Gut integrity is a hot topic in animal production. With intensifying production and a reduction in permitted pharmaceutical solutions to control infections, other strategies must be applied. Purification and detoxification Charcoal has been known and appreciated for thousands of years for its purifying effects. It was already used thousands of years ago by the Romans and Ch


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