National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Antimicrobials are used in dairy cattle to treat disease and to improve feed efficiency. The widespread use of antimicrobials has created potential residue problems in dairy products. The problems associated with the antimicrobial residues in milk includes the risk of allergic reactions after consumption and transfer of antimicrobial resistant bacteria from livestock to human through contaminated food products. This study aims to monitor Enrofloxacin antimicrobial drug residue in milk by a simple microbial screening method. Two hundred milk samples comprising of 100 cow and 100 buffalo milk were collected from organized dairy farms. Milk samples were extracted for the antibiotic Enrofloxacin and were examined for the presence of Enrofloxacin antibiotic residues by microbial tube test method using the indicator organism Escherichia coli. The results of this study revealed 5 positive buffalo milk samples (5%) for enrofloxacin antimicrobial drug residues. This study explains that microbial screening method has a unique advantage of a high-throughput, economical and simple tool that can be used to screen the existence of antibiotic residues in foods of animal origin.
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