Animal feed and additive for animal feed to control feed borne pathogens

Abstract

An additive for animal feed which includes sodium percarbonate. The sodium percarbonate may be in solid form. The invention also includes an animal feed that includes nutritional material and sodium percarbonate. In various forms of the invention the sodium percarbonate constitutes at least 1 percent or at least 2 percent by weight of the entire weight of the animal feed. The animal feed may be in pellet form and the sodium percarbonate may be present in substantially all of the pellets. In some embodiments of the invention the sodium percarbonate constitutes less than 8 percent by weight of the entire weight of said animal feed. Some embodiments of the animal feed in accordance with a present invention do not include any mammalian animal proteins.

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