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Pesticides and Veterinary Drugs Residues in Conventional Meat: A Food Safety Issue
ISSN: 1927 - 520XPublisher: author   
Pesticides and Veterinary Drugs Residues in Conventional Meat: A Food Safety Issue
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Publisher: Lifescience Global Inc.
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1927 - 520X
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Abstract
In the current scenario the most of people are well aware with health issues. Food safety is generally related with the quality of food i.e. whether the food product is standardised as according to national or international norms set by the statutory organisations. People can compromise with the nutritive values of food but not with their safety aspects. The meat and meat products carry the burden of harmful agents according to the production methods. Now-a-days the feedlot animals are being reared either through the natural farming (organic farming) or conventional farming method. Those methods produce safe and healthier meat because there is no use of harmful chemical agents’ viz., pesticides, herbicides, hormones, growth promoters, veterinary drugs and etc. On the other hand, in the conventional farming, all these chemical agents are used to enhance animal growth. Several chemical agents like pesticides and veterinary drugs residue...