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Antibiotics in Poultry Meat and Products' Residual Levels and Implications to Public Health

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Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

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Animal-derived food hygiene, safety, and technology (milk, dairy products, meat, meat products, seafood, and poultry meat).

Abstract

The great overuse of antibiotics in poultry farms for the treatment of infections or as food additives to improve chicken growth is a major human health concern. Macrolide, tetracycline, quinolones, and beta-lactams are some of the most important antibiotics used in chicken farms and may have residues in their meat. Therefore, the current study was applied to investigate the antibiotic residues in a total of 400 samples of raw chicken breast, liver, nugget, burger, and luncheon (80 each) collected from retail markets and grocery stores in Beni-Suef governorate, Egypt. The results revealed that 72.5% of chicken breast samples had antibiotic residues. The screening of the four antibiotics families in chicken liver samples has shown that danofloxacin (quinolones) and streptomycin recorded the highest percentages (72.5% each), while the lowest one was recorded for penicillin (60%). Similarly, the highest levels of antibiotics in breast samples were for tetracycline, sarafloxacin and danfloxacin (63.75% each), while the lowest one was penicillin (53.75%). On the other hand, poultry products (nuggets, burger, and luncheon) were negative for antibiotic residues. The calculated estimated daily intakes (EDIs) for all examined antibiotics showed higher exposure levels than the fixed values of acceptable daily intakes (ADIs) which are a major health problem. Guidelines for the prudent use of antimicrobial agents for chicken should be adopted to reduce the prevalence of antibiotics resistance in human.

DOI

10.21608/jvmr.2022.178509.1076

Keywords

Beta-lactams, chicken, macrolide, tetracycline, Quinolones

Authors

First Name

Mariam

Last Name

Mohammed

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Postgraduate at Department of Food Hygiene and Control, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef 62511, Egypt.

Email

mariamattia533@yahoo.com

City

Beni-Suef

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First Name

Fathy

Last Name

Khalafalla

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Department of Food Hygiene and Control, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef 62511, Egypt.

Email

fathykhalafalla@gmail.com

City

Beni-Suef

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First Name

Nasser

Last Name

Abdel-Atty

MiddleName

S.

Affiliation

Department of Food Hygiene and Control, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef 62511, Egypt.

Email

nasser_774@yahoo.com

City

Beni-suef

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Volume

30

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

41603

Issue Date

2023-06-01

Receive Date

2022-12-06

Publish Date

2023-06-01

Page Start

36

Page End

40

Print ISSN

2357-0512

Online ISSN

2357-0520

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Original Article

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891

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Publication Title

Journal of Veterinary Medical Research

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https://jvmr.journals.ekb.eg/

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Antibiotics in Poultry Meat and Products' Residual Levels and Implications to Public Health

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24 Dec 2024