A healthy gut is key: Zero Zinc Summit

With only 3 days before zinc oxide would be banned from pig diets in the EU, experts gathered in Copenhagen, Denmark, for the second edition of the Zero Zinc Summit. The goal was to elaborate on how to deal with the zero zinc reality. Improving piglet intestinal health seems to be the answer. For many years, zinc oxide was the most cost-effective way to reduce post-weaning diarrhoea in piglets. For EU pig producers, that era came to an end on 26 June 2022. Increasing antibiotics is not an opt