ADULTERATION OF LIVESTOCK FEEDSTUFFS AND ITS ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS

Abstract

Adulteration can be described as the act of adding foreign substances deliberately or accidentally into the original ingredient for financial gain or due to carelessness and lack of proper hygienic condition during processing, storing, transportation and marketing. There are two types of adulteration, deliberate adulteration and in-deliberate adulteration. Ingredients commonly adulterated includes Maize, Fish meal, Groundnut cake (GNC), Maize offal’s and other micro ingredients. The effects of adulteration have deleterious effect on livestock which leads to poor performance. Economically, it is detrimental to revenue
generation drive of the government. Feed Adulteration can be curbed through: effective pest control regime should be implemented, periodic testing, feed ingredient should be obtained from a safe source.