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. 2019 Dec 17;98(12):6659–6667. doi: 10.3382/ps/pez536

Table 1.

Inputs for estimating the economic impact caused by the withdrawal of antibiotic growth promoters (AGP) from broiler diets.


Initial phase
Total Period
Inputs (1 to 21 D) (1 to 42 D)
Annual slaughterings, heads 5.840.000.000 5.840.000.000
Weight gain, kg 0.80 2.50
Feed conversion target (APC+), kg/kg 1.47 1.66
Feed conversion variation1, % 2.64 3.48
Feed cost, $/ton 232.00 230.00
1

Feed conversion variation: variation between diets with and without AGP obtained by the meta-analysis.