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  • Peer-reviewed journal article
GE organism
  • maize
GE trait
  • insect resistance
Country
  • Germany

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Investigations on genetically modified maize (Bt-maize) in pig nutrition: fattening performance and slaughtering results

Reuter, T; Aulrich, K; Berk, A
Archiv für Tierernaehrung. 2002 October. 56(5):319-26

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PMID: 12556043 DOI: 10.1080/00039420215628 ISSN: 1745-039X

Abstract

A grower finisher performance trial with forty-eight pigs was designed to compare the growth performance of pigs fed diets containing either genetically modified (GM) Bt-maize (NX6262) or its parental maize (Prelude) line. During the experiment, the pigs were fed with a grower and a finisher diet both containing 70% maize investigated in a previously study which showed that they contained similar ME values and digestibility of crude nutrients. The pigs with an initial live weight of 23.9 +/- 3.0 kg were allotted to single boxes. During a 91 days growing period the pigs of both groups recorded equal performance in daily weight gain (AW) 815 +/- 93 vs. 804 +/- 64 g/d depending on equal amounts of feed intake 1.95 +/- 0.15 vs. 1.94 +/- 0.15 kg/d (parental vs. transgenic). The results confirm equal performance among growing-finishing pigs fed parental or genetically modified maize containing diets. For slaughtering the pigs were divided into 4 groups with a different duration of the finishing period. After slaughtering the carcass characteristic were registered.

Keywords

Genetically Modified Feeds; Bacillus Thuringiensis (Bt)-corn; (Bt)-maize; Pigs; Fattening Performance; Carcass Characteristic; mycotoxins

Funding

Funding source
  • Federal Agricultural Research Center
Funding country
  • Germany
Funding type
  • government

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MLA

Reuter, T, K Aulrich, A Berk. "Investigations on genetically modified maize (Bt-maize) in pig nutrition: fattening performance and slaughtering results." Archiv für Tierernaehrung 56.5 (2002): 319-26. Web. 29 Mar. 2024.

APA

Reuter, T., Aulrich, K., & Berk, A. (2002). Investigations on genetically modified maize (Bt-maize) in pig nutrition: fattening performance and slaughtering results. Archiv für Tierernaehrung, 56(5), 319-26. doi:10.1080/00039420215628

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