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The Feeding of Antibiotics to Pigs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2016

W. P. Blount
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The credit for the discovery that antibiotics in stable form added to feedstuffs (in amounts so small that they resemble vitamins) have growth-promoting properties, goes to Lederle Laboratories, a subsidiary of the American Cyanamid Company. This was in 1948 and was revealed during studies with residues following the manufacture of aureomycin. It was found that these were a rich source of vitamin B12 which had been discovered to have growth-promoting properties when added to all-vegetable diets. But the aureomycin residues contained a further stimulus to growth which was later found to be related to the antibiotic itself.

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Seventeenth Meeting: Pig Production
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production , Volume 1953 , Issue 1 , 1952 , pp. 50 - 57
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1952

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