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Food safety impacts of antimicrobial use and their residues in aquaculture

Overview of attention for article published in Public Health Reviews, August 2018
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Title
Food safety impacts of antimicrobial use and their residues in aquaculture
Published in
Public Health Reviews, August 2018
DOI 10.1186/s40985-018-0099-2
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Reuben Chukwuka Okocha, Isaac Olufemi Olatoye, Olufemi Bolarinwa Adedeji

Abstract

Residues of antimicrobials in food have received much attention in recent years because of growing food safety and public health concerns. Their presence in food of animal origin constitutes socioeconomic challenges in international trade in animal and animal products. The major public health significances of antimicrobial residues include the development of antimicrobial drug resistance, hypersensitivity reaction, carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, teratogenicity, bone marrow depression, and disruption of normal intestinal flora. Indiscriminate use of antimicrobials in aquaculture resulting in occurrence of residues in aquaculture products and associated harmful health effects in humans requires control measures to ensure consumer protection. This article focuses on factors contributing to the presence of antimicrobial residues in aquaculture products and their implications on consumers' safety. Regulatory actions aimed at prudent use of veterinary drugs in food-producing animals with emphasis on aquaculture for safe and wholesome food production are also reviewed. Prudent use of antibiotics in aquaculture under veterinary supervision is critical in ensuring safety of aquaculture products. Good animal husbandry practices as well as the use of alternatives to antibiotics such as vaccination, probiotics, phage therapy, and essential oils are recommended panaceas to reducing the use of antimicrobial residues in aquaculture and consequent food safety effects.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 605 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 86 14%
Student > Bachelor 59 10%
Researcher 57 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 51 8%
Student > Postgraduate 26 4%
Other 88 15%
Unknown 238 39%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 93 15%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 64 11%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 34 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 27 4%
Environmental Science 21 3%
Other 99 16%
Unknown 267 44%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 August 2018.
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#4,169,998
of 25,382,440 outputs
Outputs from Public Health Reviews
#112
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#74,141
of 341,021 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Public Health Reviews
#8
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