The conference is accredited as continuing education for German veterinarians with 11 hours by the Akademie für tierärztliche Fortbildung (academy for veterinary advanced training, ATF).

Highlights

The complexity of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)

• European Commission on the EU Action Plan on AMR
• An EU-Member State’s perspective

Feed additives

• European Commission on feed additives authorisation
• EFSA on the revision of the guidance documents
• Innovation in feed additives – new functional groups

European examples and role of animal nutrition

• Spanish particularities – an integrated approach
• Practical experience in the Danish pig production
• Belgian initiatives
• Trace elements and AMR – zinc and copper
• Probiotics: physiological basics and industrial developments

Animal health – pharmacology, breeding and feeding

• Microbiota and diseases
• Innovative approaches to mitigate post-weaning diarrhea
• Challenges in nutrition of organic animals
• Worldwide R&D activities
• View of applied pharmacology

Who do you meet? 

Groups that should take part:

Managing directors, boards of directors, managers, consultants and scientists in the fields of: 

• Registration 
• Research & development 
• Marketing & distribution 
• Quality assurance & control 
• Product safety 
• Food & Feed risk assessment

Sectors that should take part: 

• Feed industry, especially producers, retailers and importers of feed additives, premixtures, feed materials, compound feed, feed intended for specific nutritional purposes and medicated feed
• Pet food industry
• Producers of veterinary medical products 
• Laboratories 
• Research institutes 
• Authorities 
• Professional associations