Poultry Egg Hazard

Poultry Egg Hazard

The possible hazards are as follows:
1. Chemical
2. Biological
3. Little Physical Hazards

Types of Chemical Hazards

Antibiotics:
a) Doxcycline
b) Chloramphenicol
c) Nitrofuran

The above antibiotics is to treat avian diseases like salmonella infections

Mode of entry

1. Imparted into eggs when hen is sick and be administered with the above antibiotics
2. Antibiotic enter the hen’s circulatory system and during the formation of egg, it’s being imparted into the egg
3. Site of entries are blood and ovary

Specific preventive measures

a) Provide withdrawal period after the last administration of antibiotics to hen, before the eggs are being use for commercial sales
b) Carry out sampling in eggs and chicken to check for exceeding limits of antibiotics
c) Practice good husbandries to the hen.

Biological hazards:
Microoragnisms:
a) Salmonella spp.