“Antibiotics covered up a lot of issues”

With antibiotics usage being heavily debated these days, increasingly the notion grows that animal health and animal nutrition are actually two sides of the same coin. In that light it isn’t so strange that microbiologist Dr Al Thomas made it to a senior position within a feed additives company. Once upon a time, young researcher Alastair Thomas vowed never to go back to chickens again. He had been doing his PhD on the effects of stress on Campylobacter colonisation in poultry production and