Vitamins – vital nutrients for health and production

Without vitamins pigs cannot grow as the industry wants them to do. In this series of three articles, general knowledge on vitamins is refreshed – what vitamins exist, which ones are indispensible for pigs and how to formulate diets with vitamins? By Gilberto Litta, global category manager vitamins, DSM Vitamin nutrition is understood very well and has been the subject of comprehensive research over many years. This has yielded valuable tools to ensure that domestic animals in human care are g