Its my pleasure to provide this information to all #Nonvegetarians and so called animal lovers aka Dog/Cat lovers about their favourite Food #CHICKEN :) Each time you eat chicken, you could also be consuming a cocktail of antibiotics. A lab study released by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) found antibiotic residues in 40% of chicken samples bought from outlets in Delhi and NCR. CSE said it conducted the study after being alerted by doctors, including Bangalore-based cardiac surgeon Devi Shetty, about a rising trend of antibiotic resistance among patients. The CSE report, released on Wednesday, said poultry owners routinely pumped antibiotics into chicken during their short life of about 35 to 42 days, to promote growth so that they look bigger and also to treat or prevent infections. India has no law to regulate antibiotic use in the poultry sector. CSEs research team tested chicken samples at its Pollution Monitoring Laboratory. Three tissues in each sample were tested - muscle, kidney and liver. Residues of five of the six antibiotics were found in all three tissues of the samples in the range of 3.37 to 131.75 micrograms per kg. While the amount of antibiotics found in each sample was not very high, experts said #regular #consumers of such meat could be in danger of developing antibiotic resistance. In other words, eating chicken with drug traces over a period of time could make you immune to important antibiotics prescribed to treat common illnesses. The study said it had evidence of large scale and reckless use of antibiotics by poultry owners, which can also lead to antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains in the chicken itself. Dr.shetty after approached to CSE to do a study and now the data says it all. :) So keep enjoying chicken tangdi and kebabs and be immune free from antibiotics.. Lol ^_^
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 09:50:38 +0000