EMA recommends ban on zinc oxide in pig feed

The European Medicines Agency has recommended a ban on the use of zinc oxide in animal feed – a move favoured in some EU countries but strongly opposed in others.

If the EuropeanCommission goes on to accept the advice from the EMA’s Committee onVeterinary Medicinal Products (CVMP), a ban would remove a widely-used tool incontrolling post-weaning diarrhoea.

At its latestmeeting last week, the CVMP recommended…

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