Fast food fever: reviewing the impacts of the Western diet on immunity

IA Myles - Nutrition journal, 2014 - Springer
While numerous changes in human lifestyle constitute modern life, our diet has been
gaining attention as a potential contributor to the increase in immune-mediated diseases …

Prevalence and impacts of genetically engineered feedstuffs on livestock populations

AL Van Eenennaam, AE Young - Journal of Animal Science, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Globally, food-producing animals consume 70 to 90% of genetically engineered (GE) crop
biomass. This review briefly summarizes the scientific literature on performance and health …

Exploring a possible link between the intestinal microbiota and feed efficiency in pigs

UM McCormack, T Curião, SG Buzoianu… - Applied and …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Feed efficiency (FE) is critical in pig production for both economic and environmental
reasons. As the intestinal microbiota plays an important role in energy harvest, it is likely to …

Safety assessment of genetically modified feed: is there any difference from food?

PA Giraldo, H Shinozuka, GC Spangenberg… - Frontiers in plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Food security is one of major concerns for the growing global population. Modern
agricultural biotechnologies, such as genetic modification, are a possible solution through …

[HTML][HTML] News in livestock research—use of Omics-technologies to study the microbiota in the gastrointestinal tract of farm animals

S Deusch, B Tilocca, A Camarinha-Silva… - Computational and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Technical progress in the field of next-generation sequencing, mass spectrometry and
bioinformatics facilitates the study of highly complex biological samples such as taxonomic …

How safe does transgenic food need to be?

L DeFrancesco - Nature biotechnology, 2013 - nature.com
Genetically modified sweet corn seed has been part of the American diet since 1998 when
Syngenta's insect-protected corn was approved. Monsanto started selling transgenic sweet …

Gut microbial diversity is reduced and is associated with colonic inflammation in a piglet model of short bowel syndrome

S Lapthorne, PM Pereira-Fantini, F Fouhy, G Wilson… - Gut …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Background and objectives: Following small bowel resection (SBR), the luminal
environment is altered, which contributes to clinical manifestations of short bowel syndrome …

Case studies on genetically modified organisms (GMOs): Potential risk scenarios and associated health indicators

B De Santis, N Stockhofe, JM Wal… - Food and Chemical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Within the frame of the EU-funded MARLON project, background data were reviewed to
explore the possibility of measuring health indicators during post-market monitoring for …

Health effects of feeding genetically modified (GM) crops to livestock animals: A review

CJ De Vos, M Swanenburg - Food and Chemical Toxicology, 2018 - Elsevier
A large share of genetically modified (GM) crops grown worldwide is processed into
livestock feed. Feed safety of GM crops is primarily based on compositional equivalence …

[HTML][HTML] The replacement of bacitracin methylene disalicylate with Bacillus subtilis PB6 in the diet of male Cherry Valley Ducks reduces the feed conversion ratio by …

Q Zhang, J Li, G Wang, L Wang, Z Zhang, Z Fang, Y Lin… - Poultry Science, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, we compared the impacts of Bacillus subtilis PB6 (BS) and bacitracin
methylene disalicylate (BMD) on the growth performance, intestinal morphology, expression …