The use of probiotic bacteria, isolated from naturally-occurring bacterial communities, is gaining in popularity in the aquaculture industry as the preferred, environmentally-friendly management alternative to the use of antibiotics and other antimicrobials for disease prevention.
Salmonella – a bacterium causing salmonellosis in humans – was until 2005 the most common food-borne disease in European Union (EU) with almost 200.000 reported human cases that year.
Shenandoah's BioProcess Algae and Green Plains Renewable Energy broke ground last week on the construction of its five-acre (1.2 ha) production plant at Green Plains in Shenandoah, Iowa, USA.
