Veterinary medicine ruminants

Part II provides detailed information on the main quality and safety issues related to the production of organic livestock foods. This includes three chapters (Chapters 7 to 9) which review the effect of livestock husbandry on nutritional and sensory quality of livestock foods including milk and dairy products (Chapter 7), poultry (Chapter 8) and pork (Chapter 9). It also includes four chapters (Chapters 10 to 13) which review the strategies used to minimise microbiological risks and antibiotic and veterinary medicine use in livestock production systems including safety of ruminants (Chapter 10), mastitis treatment in organic dairy production systems (Chapter 11), internal parasites (Chapter 12) and pigs and poultry (Chapter 13). 

In addition to its uses as an excipient, propylene glycol is used in veterinary medicine as an oral glucogenic in ruminants. " A specification for potassium glycol is contained in the Food Chemicals Codex (FCC). The EINECS number for propylene glycol is 200-338-0. 

Compared to its use in product manufacturing, the use of formaldehyde in the medical fields is relatively small. Consumption in this area averages approximately 1.5% of the total production volume (WHO 1989). Some of the earlier, minor, medicinal applications for formaldehyde included its use during vasectomies, as a foot antiperspirant or as a preservative in such products, as a treatment for athlete s foot, and as a sterilant for echinococcus cysts prior to their surgical removal (lARC 1982). In veterinary medicine, formaldehyde has been used therapeutically as an antiseptic and as a fumigant. It has also been used to treat tympany, diarrhea, mastitis, pneumonia, and internal bleeding in animals (Windholz et al. 1983). In animal nutrition, formaldehyde is used to protect dietary protein in ruminants. It is used as a food additive to improve the handling characteristics of animal fat and oilseed cattle food mixtures (WHO 1989). 

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