Scientific Opinion on the safety and efficacy of vitamin D<sub>3</sub> (cholecalciferol) as a feed additive for chickens for fattening, turkeys, other poultry, pigs, piglets (suckling), calves for rearing, calves for fattening, bovines, ovines, equines, fish and other animal species or categories, based on a dossier submitted by DSM
The principal physiological role of vitamin D in all vertebrates is in calcium and phosphorus homeostasis. The classic clinical deficiency syndrome is rickets. The FEEDAP Panel notes that for turkeys for fattening, equines, bovines, ovines and pigs the maximum content for vitamin D3 in feed does not...
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Wiley
2012-12-01
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| Series: | EFSA Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/doc/2968.pdf |