FAO ANIMAL PRODUCTION AND HEALTH 160

FAO ANIMAL PRODUCTION AND HEALTH
160
PAPER

ASSESSING QUALITY
AND SAFETY
OF ANIMAL FEEDS

   
 

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, 2004

 

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Table of Contents

Foreword

List of abbreviations

Modern techniques for feed analysis - I. MUELLER-HARVEY

Variability in feed composition and its impact on animal production - G. GIZZI AND D.I. GIVENS

Recent advances in the in vitro gas method for evaluation of nutritional quality of feed resources - HARINDER P.S. MAKKAR

Microbiology of animal feeds - J.P.F. D’MELLO

Contaminants and toxins in animal feeds - J.P.F. D’MELLO

Antibiotic growth-promoters in food animals - PETER HUGHES AND JOHN HERITAGE

FAO technical papers

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