Carvacrol

1 Introduction

Security of food, feed and animal product quality has become the world hotspot question. The requirement of safe, efficiency, environmental protection feed additive tend to increase rapidly whether home market or oversea market. As an important activated component in Origanum vulgare, carvacrol is a kind of phenolic compounds with bactericidal action. Because it has a characteristic of antibacterial, wide range，safe and non-toxic, carvacrol is applied extensively to drug, supplement, animal nutrition, diseases curing and so on.. The primary antimicrobial component in VO, which is a sort of natural feed antimicrobial production, is carvacrol.

2 Action mechanisms

1.        Destroys the interior/exterior exchange balance of pathogenic microbe cell. Induces permeability of pathogenic microbe plasmalemma to change and miss its internal substances.

2.        Destroys the normal metabolism of pathogenic microbe cell. Enter pathogenic microbe cell and alters plasmalemma structure of organelles in order to lose physiological performance of important organelles.

3.        Changes permeability of mitochondrial plasmalemma and prevents oxidation and respiration function to destroy energy metabolism.

3 Advantages

1.        Wide range, high efficiency

Carvacrol has the great antimicrobial role, include gram-positive bacteria, gram-negative bacteria and fungi. Carvacrol could significantly restrain bacteria growth even if it is diluted 4000~5000 times.

2.        Legitimacy, extensive

The VO with important active carvacrol is an exclusive feed additive which roots in plant in the feed additive list and applied to livestock and poultry.

3.        Security environmental protection

As a kind of plant extraction, carvacrol has not nearly drug resistance and residue.

4 TIANTIANXIANG Carvacrol Characteristic and Function

TIANTIANXIANG carvacrol is safe, non-toxic, it is not almost toxic effect side-effect and veterinary drug residue, and it has good stable chemical properties.

Prevents and treats the livestock (especially piglet) and poultry (especially chicken) dysentery resulted from Escherichia coli and salmonella etc.

Strongly promotes animals’ growth and the food conversion ratio.

It can combine with Flavomycin, Olaquindox and so on.

Table 1 TIANTIANXIANG carvacrol production technical index