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Our laboratory participates to a European Prima project [1] that aims to enhance milk and dairy food quality and safety using selected EOs as antimicrobial substitute in the context of One Health approach.

In the frame of this project, we published a comprehensive review relating the main advantages of using EOs, whether encapsulated or not, as antibacterial alternatives in sustainable animal husbandry. The main discussed points concern:

• Historical use of EOs
• Extraction methods and chemical composition in various species of plants
• Stability and encapsulation technologies of EOs
• Antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory (animal mastisis) and antioxidant properties of EOs
• EOS in rumen fermentation and animal nutrition

Properties and benefits of essential oils

The increasing industrial use of plants makes the study of EOs crucial to design new bioactive delivery systems. Supplementing animal with EOs at early life opens new perspectives in nutrition sector. However, effective evaluation of their safety is required before extending their use to livestock and veterinary medicine.

[1] Milkqua, a Prima multidisciplinary project associating five partners from EU (France, Portugal, Spain, Italy) and five partners from Tunisia

 Collaborations

• Quality and Health Department, IDELE Institute, Paris France
• CSIC-Universidad de León, Spain
• Department of Chemistry Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Portugal
• Laboratory of Aromatic and Medicinal Plants, Biotechnology Center of Borj-Cédria, Tunisia
• Department of Veterinary Medicine Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy.

Read more

Ralph Nehme, Sonia Andrés, Renato Pereira, Meriem Jemaa, Said Bouhallab, Fabrizio Ceciliani, Secundino López, Fatma Zohra Rahali, Riadh Ksouri, David Pereira, Latifa Abdennebi-Najar (2021). Essential Oils in Livestock: From Health to Food Quality.  Antioxidants, 10 (2), 330.

Contacts

Saïd Bouhallab