Chemical Residues in Animal Food Products: An Issue of Public Health

Lozano, María Constanza; Trujillo, Mary

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“…Typical examples are β-adrenergic agonists, which are intended to increase growth efficiency and meat percentage in the carcass, especially by promoting protein synthesis and reducing fat content. Antithyroid agents and corticosteroids can be applied alone to increase food intake, weight gain, fat content and water retention, or in combination with β-agonists to increase water content in meat, or with anabolic steroids [21].…”

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“…Reduce the development of drug residue: Humans consume protein-rich foods, mostly of animal origin, to meet their nutritional requirements. In some countries, the safety of foods of animal origin has focused on preventing the transmission of zoonotic diseases, while less attention has been paid to potentially present chemical residues [21]. Today, growing consumer awareness of the increasing chemicalization of foods of animal origin (meat, milk, eggs and their products) is a challenge facing the dairy, meat and poultry industries.…”

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Review on Rational Use of Veterinary Drugs and Its Status in Ethiopia

Yitbarek

2024

J Vet Sci Med

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Over the past 100 years, medical care for animal diseases has evolved significantly. The purpose of this paper is to review the rational use of veterinary medicines and their current status in Ethiopia. Veterinary drugs are used rationally or irrationally in the livestock sector for therapeutic, prophylactic, and growth-promoting drugs, food preservation and processing, stress control in slaughterhouses prior to slaughter, and reproductive control. Rational use of drugs is the use of the right drug, in the right amount, at the right cost, and at the right time. Irrational use of veterinary drugs is a major problem when used in food-producing animals. Reasons for irrational drug use include poor communication between owners and professionals, inadequate training and education of veterinary graduates, demands from owners, and lack of diagnostic equipment. Irrational use of drugs can negatively impact public health, including: decreased quality of drug therapy leading to increased mortality and morbidity; increased risk of undesirable effects (emergence of drug resistance and side effects); waste of resources leading to decreased availability of other important drugs; increased costs; adverse, sometimes increased, in some cases lethal, effects, and so on. To promote the rational use of drugs, WHO has announced 12 core interventions. In Ethiopian veterinary clinics, there were problems with correct diagnosis, low prescriber education levels, the presence of a small number of essential drugs, the absence of a standard veterinary drug list, and inappropriate drug use leading to irrational drug use. Therefore, attention should be paid to proper diagnosis, educational status of prescribers, different types of drugs, and meeting all the customs of the national veterinary drug lists and guidelines..

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Review on Rational Use of Veterinary Drugs and Its Status in Ethiopia

Yitbarek

2024

J Vet Sci Med

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“…Whilst infectious processes are frequently of the acute type, toxicosis caused by contaminants in foods (more than acute) may be chronic, silent and often lacking a known aetiological agent. 4 An increasing occurrence of residues and awareness of consumers about a growing chemical usage of animal origin foods (milk and its products) present a challenge to the dairy industry. 5 A great number of chemical compounds are used either directly or indirectly during the production, processing and storage of it.…”

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Chemical and Drug Use in Dairy Farms of Hawassa Town, Southern Ethiopia

Fesseha¹,

Aliye²,

Kifle³

et al. 2020

Public Health Open J

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The current study was conducted to assess chemical and drug use in dairy farms of Hawassa town, Southern Ethiopia. Methods and Materials A total of 45 dairy farms were selected based on the willingness of the owner and the availability of information using a cross-sectional study from December 2017 to April 2018. Besides, data were collected through a questionnaire survey and close observation. Results Accordingly, based on observational assessment, most farms commonly used savlon (88.9%) iodine (60%) and detergent (20%) as antiseptics. Albendazole was the common anthelmintic by all dairy farms. Besides, Diazinon is used as acaricides (51.1%) and 57.8% of farms used sulfa drugs as an antiprotozoal agent. Similarly, all dairy farms in the study area used penicillin-streptomycin combination injection and ampicillin-cloxacillin combination for the treatment of mastitis. Based on a questionnaire assessment on 24 animal health assistants from different farms in of the study area, most (79.2%) did not remind owners to avoid the use or sale of animal products during withdrawal time. Out of the total, 27 (60%) of them offer or sell products to the public from animals treated with any of drugs without holding the withdrawal period of the drug. Conclusion The current study revealed that there was a high risk of drug and chemical residues in dairy products in the study area which can be a great threat to public health. Consequently, awareness creation through mass education, training and extension service should be promoted in the study area in order to ensure better chemical and drug use and minimize its public health hazards.

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Hormones and Hormonal Anabolics: Residues in Animal Source Food, Potential Public Health Impacts, and Methods of Analysis

Hirpessa

Ulusoy

Hecer

2020

Journal of Food Quality

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The demand for nutritious food, especially food of animal origin, is globally increasing due to escalating population growth and a dietary shift to animal source food. In order to fulfill the requirements, producers are using veterinary drugs such as hormones and hormone-like anabolic agents. Hormones such as steroidal (estrogens, gestagens, and androgens), nonsteroidal, semisynthetic, and synthetic or designer drugs are all growth-promoting and body-partitioning agents. Hence, in food animal production practice, farm owners use these chemicals to improve body weight gain, increase feed conversion efficiency, and productivity. However, the use of these hormones and hormonal growth-promoting agents eventually ends up with the occurrence of residues in the animal-originated food. The incidence of hormone residues in such types of food and food products beyond the tolerance acts as a risk factor for the occurrence of potential public health problems. Currently, different international and national regulatory bodies have placed requirements and legislative frameworks, which enable them to implement residue monitoring test endeavors that safeguard the public and facilitate the trading activity. To make the tests on the animal-origin food matrix, there are different sample extraction techniques such as accelerated solvent extraction, supercritical ﬂuid extraction, solid phase extraction, solid-phase microextraction, and hollow-ﬁber liquid-phase microextraction. After sample preparation steps, the analytes of interest can be assayed by screening and confirmatory methods of analysis. For screening, immunological tests such as ELISA and radioimmunoassay are used. Detection and determination of the specific residues will be done by chromatographic or instrumental analysis. Mainly, among high-performance liquid chromatography, liquid chromatography with mass spectrometry (LC-MS, LC-MS/MS), and gas chromatography with mass spectrometry (GC-MS and GC-MS/MS) methods, LC-MS/MS is being preferred because of easier sample preparation without a derivatization step and high detection and quantification capacity.

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Chemical Residues in Animal Food Products: An Issue of Public Health

Cited by 4 publications

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Review on Rational Use of Veterinary Drugs and Its Status in Ethiopia

Review on Rational Use of Veterinary Drugs and Its Status in Ethiopia

Chemical and Drug Use in Dairy Farms of Hawassa Town, Southern Ethiopia

Hormones and Hormonal Anabolics: Residues in Animal Source Food, Potential Public Health Impacts, and Methods of Analysis

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