Meat safety of broiler chickens when using a new generation antibiotic

Abstract

The article presents the results of studies of the effect of a new generation antibiotic on the safety indicators of poultry products. The experimental part of the work was carried out in the vivarium of the Department of Parasitology and Veterinary and Sanitary Expertise, at Mayskiye Prostory LLC, 140 broiler chickens of the Ross-308 cross were purchased at the age of one day. The drug was fed to broiler chickens in a therapeutic dose: 0,3 ml/l of water per day, watering was carried out from the 16th to the 20th day (5 days). In the carcasses of broiler chickens, we did not find pathogenic and conditionally pathogenic microflora, the studied samples comply with the requirements of the Technical Regulations of the Eurasian Economic Union «On the safety of poultry meat and products of its processing» TR EAEU 051/2021. Analyzing the results of studies of residual amounts of antibiotics in muscle tissue, fat, skin, muscular stomach, heart and liver, we found that the detection of the minimum amount of florfenicol was on the 3rd day after the end of the drug drinking, and azithromycin on the 11th day.