The GA-networking group on Medicinal Plants and Natural Products in Animal Healthcare and Veterinary Medicine is invited to organize again a one-day Pre-Congress Symposium. To bring together practitioners, scientists, students and industry in our field is the idea of our networking group and in particular of the symposium.

After just a year of break, we have the great chance to meet in the central part of Europe this time.

As usual the Symposium will cover following themes:

• Animal self-medication
• Ethnoveterinary medicine
• Veterinary pharmacology of medicinal plants
• Science and practice of veterinary phytotherapy
• Clinical, in vivo and in vitro research with medicinal plants or natural products for animals
• Feed additives and animal health care products based on plants rich in phytochemicals.

The program will include keynote lectures, invited short lectures, as well as contributed short lectures. The animal related contributions of the main congress will be presented as posters during the Pre-Congress Symposium. An international industrial exhibition with companies presenting herbal feed additives, veterinary drugs and phytogenic health care products for animals will be held. A broad professional, scientific and personal exchange will be possible during the breaks.

Registration for the various workshops will open next February.