date:Jun 29, 2012
Researchers at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Food and Feed Safety Research Unit in College Station, Texas, used chlorate (sodium or salt) and nitro compounds to significantly reduce or eliminate intestinal bacterial pathogens in piglets and calves. The compounds have been proven effective againstSalmonellaandE. coliO157:H7, USDA said.
In earlier research, Robin Anderson, a microbiologist, and his colleagues mixed the chlorate-based compound into water or feed and gave it to cattle. Th