Resumen de Clinical decision making: Use of plasma preparations to provide passive immunity in calves
THE cover of Veterinary Record of October 17 highlights a clinical decision making BestBETS for Vets item dealing with the important topic of providing colostrum or suitable replacements/substitutes for neonatal calves. Because of the origin of most of the antibodies within bovine colostrum, the concept of using plasma or products derived from plasma as a colostrum replacement was suggested well over 30 years ago.
The BestBETS for Vets item (VR, October 17, 2015, vol 177, p 393) highlights two relatively recent papers on this subject, both from North America. It is not stated, but I suspect that no relevant papers were found in the European or UK literature from about 1987 onwards. There is a good reason for this, as the oral feeding of blood products or their derivatives to cattle has been prohibited since then, currently under Regulation (EC) 1069/2009 EC By-Products Control Regulation, implemented under Regulation (EC) 1421/2011 Animal By-Products (Enforcement) Regulation....
