Patent ID: 6099855
Filing Date: 2000-08-08
Classification: A01N,A61K

Abstract:
A therapeutic and production method for enhancing feed utilization, decreasing the dependence on vaccines and antibiotics, stimulating the immune system and decreasing mortality rate of healthy or infected food animals selected from the group consisting of cattle, swine, poultry, sheep and goats, which comprises orally administering to the animals an effective amount of a pH-buffered, redox-stabilized composition comprising a chlorite ion source, a chloride ion source and a chlorate ion source wherein the molar ratio of chlorite ion to chlorate ion is in the range from 2:1 to 1000:1; the molar ratio of chlorite ion to chloride ion is in the range from 0.1:1 to 1000:1; and the molar ratio of chloride ion to chlorate ion is in the range from 0.1:1 to 1000:1.