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Mode of Action
Gastro intestinal system management is the most important issues to reach expected performance for animal husbandry. While microbial growth is desirable for digestion and increases performance, if the amount of pathogens increases, this will be effect negatively to the nutrient uptake and absorption and also performance too.
Because of these reasons, antibiotics are used successfully as feed additives under the name of Antibiotic Growth Promoters (AGP) till EU ban. Because of residue and resistance problem related to public health issues using antibiotics as feed additives banned in EU countries and anticoccidials will be banned which is used highly amount at present day, in the year 2012.
Essential oils are the secondary metabolites of plant materials that obtained by distillation. Essential oils are oily liquids consist of a lot of chemical components which can easily crystallized and have characteristic smell and flavor of obtained plant. Generally they are in liquid form, but named volatile oil because of their easily evaporation properties. These volatile components give plant a lot of properties such as antibacterial, antiseptic, anti-oxidative etc.
Oregano oil is the most known and used essential oil because of its strong antibacterial properties. The major active components of oregano oil are phenolic terpenoids such as carvacrol, thymol and p-cymene. These active components consist of great amount of oregano oil.
Mode of action of oregano oil on animals:
- Antibacterial
- Anti-parasite
- Anti-oxidative
- Fungicidal
- Flavor and enzyme stimulation
- Immune stimulation