Tissue depletion of doxycycline after its oral administration in food producing chicken for fattening

Abstract

Poultry production in Argentina has grown during last years because of an increase in consumption of poultry and poultry products. Chicken consumption increased from 20 kg/person/year in 2000 to 44 kg for the last years.1 Due to the increase in demand of animal protein in population’s diet, important investments were implemented in the poultry sector by means of technological improvements, genetics, animal welfare, health and nutrition, which in turn contributed to the development and intensification of this activity. For this reason, activities related to poultry production are betting to include new technologies, extreme quality and sanitary controls. An example of this is the control of residues and contaminants that exceed those values allowed in the meat made by national inspection bodies in order to take care on behalf of consumer health, to punish the noncompliance of current regulations and to maintain a free market to export products produced in Argentina.