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The use of antibiotics as an additive in animal feed has been limited due to the appearance of residues in milk and meat and its effects on human health. In recent years, more attention has been paid to the potential of medicinal plants and phytogenic substances as an alternative to oral antibiotics and growth stimulants in ruminant nutrition, and plant products and their essential oils can be widely used as feed additives. Due to the origin, mode of action and compounds, they produce different effects.
Plants contain a wide range of phytochemical compounds with antimicrobial effects that may have beneficial or harmful effects on animals based on the type and concentration of such compounds. These are used in animal feed as natural growth stimulants. They also act as anti-bacterial, anti-oxidant, anti-carcinogenic, anti-fungal, pain reliever and insecticide. These herbal extracts compete with synthetic drugs. Most medicinal plants do not have residual effects. Because plant molecules are safe and prevent the resistance created by pathogens.
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