Hazard of antibiotic drug residues

When animal receives antibiotics drugs through feeds or improper treatment residues can occur in animal products.

Drug residues in food may present risks. Antibiotic residues are most likely to be found in foods of animal origin, such as meat poultry, fish, eggs and honey.

They are usually present as a result of the use of therapeutic veterinary drugs to control infection and disease in food animals.

Animals and humans may b deposed via residues in animal products. Human are also exposed when handling products containing the residues.

Both ways of exposure could be harmful if the product has organ toxicity, mutagenicity or allergenicity.

Some residents pose chronic risks, antibiotics used in animals is also alleged to contribute to the growing resistance of microorganisms to antibiotics.

Antibiotics are frequently used to treat mastitis in cows, and therefore antibiotic residues may be present in milk.

The use of antibiotic growth promoters in animal is unlikely to give rise to detectable residues in meat and other animal products unless they have been administered at levels much higher than are permitted.
Hazard of antibiotic drug residues