Presence of Antibiotic Residues of Penicillin and Oxytetracycline in Beef, Mutton and Chicken (Meat): One Health Requires Paradigm Shift Legislation and Policy Formulation

Nevertheless, with the discovery and increased production of pharmaceuticals, there has been a substantial use of pharmaceutical products that include antibiotics, steroid hormones.The day by day increase in human population across the globe is leading to the increased need to produce food.The high value of livestock products and their increasing demand creates a niche for the consumption of a variety of livestock products, which contribute to the food security (Lindahl et al. 2019).Due to the excessive use of common antibiotics (penicillin and oxytetracycline), the antibiotic residues remain in livestock products like meat (beef, mutton and chicken), it leads to antibiotic resistance which is a problem for one health.Following were the objectives of the current study: Detection of commonly used antibiotics (penicillin and oxytetracycline) in mutton, chicken and beef as a one health issue.High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) method was used on the samples collected from Lahore district of Punjab, Pakistan.The chicken samples were 28.33%, beef samples were 23.33% and mutton samples being sold in open market were 20% positive respectively.Thus, this makes it an indispensable question to be explored and figured out further prospectively to mitigate this very emerging issue of one-health tremendous need at national and international level.Novelty Statement | Detection of antibiotic (AB) residues of commonly used antibiotics (ABs) penicillin and oxytetracycline in different categories (species) of meat through HPLC in Lahore has been first time studied.