Lisbeth Shooter from SEGES on alternatives to zinc oxide

About 34 months – that is all that is left before zinc oxide for therapeutic use in pigs is phased out in the EU. By 2022, Europe’s pig producers have to know how to wean pigs without using zinc oxide and AGPs, yet avoiding diarrhoea. Time for a summit on zinc oxide, the Danish pig industry thought. Chair of the event, to be held in June 2019, is Lisbeth Shooter. Denmark is one of the leading pig countries in the world. Embedded in Northern Europe where the attention given to pig welfare an