Determination of antibiotic residues in animal products

Abstract

Antibiotics are widely used for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases in medicine and veterinary medicine, as well as growth stimulants in animal husbandry. The presence of residual traces of antibiotics in animal products, and further in food products derived from it, poses a danger to both humans and the environment as a whole. The irrational use of antibiotics in agriculture stimulates the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that can cause infectious diseases in humans and animals that cannot be treated with modern medicines. Due to the potential risk to human health in many countries, the maximum permissible limits for the content of residual traces of antibiotics are regulated. Therefore, the development of new highly sensitive, accurate, simple and cost-effective methods for their determination remains an urgent task. This review is aimed at analyzing recent work in the field of identification of residual traces of antibiotics in food products.