Dietary Potassium Diformate in Sow Nutrition in Latin America – Impact on Sows and Piglets
Potassium diformate, a double-salt of formic acid, has been shown in numerous trials to improve health and performance in piglets, growing-finishing pigs and sows. Thus, potassium diformate (KDF) has been approved in the European Union as the first non-antibiotic growth promoter for use in swine, write Christian Lückstädt and Nicolas Greiffenstein, ADDCON.