Detection of Antibiotics Residue in Chicken Meat products in Al-Najaf province

Abstract

The study was carried out in Al najaf province to investigate the antibiotics residues in local and imported by examine samples from liver ,breast muscle ,thigh muscle and gizzard .The results showed that the prevalent antibiotic residues in imported products was 60% vs. 42.5% in local products. The results of TLC test revealed that the most prevalent antibiotic was sulphadiazine (27.5%) followed by oxytetracycline and chloramphenicole ,while the lowest was neomycin in percentage rate 10%. In imported products the highest prevalent antibiotics was oxytetracycline (40%) followed by sulphsdiazine ,neomycine and chloramphenicol in percentage rate 27.5 ,15% and 3%.