Anitox News and Media

Necrotic enteritis (NE) is an economically important enteric disease of broilers and other poultry that typically presents as a spectrum ranging from subclinical performance loss to acute mortality. The condition is most often linked to intestinal overgrowth of pathogenic Clostridium

Rendering is one of animal agriculture’s most important safety and sustainability tools. The cook step brings a built-in lethality advantage that many ingredient processes simply do not have. Finished-product positives are rarely a story about “no heat.” More often, they are a story about

In commercial turkey production, the gastrointestinal tract sits at the center of performance—powering growth while carrying outsized risk. Longer grow-out periods and higher lifetime feed intake mean turkeys experience sustained exposure to enteric pathogens, so small disruptions in

Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDv) remains one of the most discussed biosecurity threats tied to feed—because it’s one of the few pathogens where the “ingredient matrix” can meaningfully influence survivability. For mills, that means risk isn’t evenly distributed across all raw

Rising lactic acid, slowing CO₂ evolution, declining ethanol concentration and a fermenter that begins to lose momentum are common operational signals of microbial contamination. Contamination management in ethanol production is therefore a routine discipline, not an emergency response,

If you’re trying to reduce pathogens in fishmeal, it helps to start with a blunt reality. Fishmeal (and the dust and equipment around it) behaves like a low-moisture system. Pathogens often won’t grow in it, but they can survive and move through a facility—especially when dust,