Research finds marker for banned antibiotic naturally present in prawns

Researchers at Ghent University and Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute has located the presence of illegal antibiotic residues in the giant freshwater prawns (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) from Bangladesh they also found that semicarbazide was naturally present in the animals. The substances identified as illegal antibiotics were found to occur naturally in trace quantities.

Ghent University and the Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute both conducted the research separately and independently in response to more than 50 Rapid Alerts issued by the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) in 2009, pertaining to consignments of shrimp from Bangladesh due to the detection of higher levels of SEM than the ones permitted (1 ppb). Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers