Poultry Meat

Volume 2 - Issue 2

Fahim Shaltout*

• Professor of Food Hygiene, Benha University, Egypt

Received: September 23, 2019;   Published: September 27, 2019

*Corresponding author: Fahim Shaltout, Professor of Food Hygiene, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Benha University, Egypt

DOI: 10.32474/SJFN.2019.02.000134

 

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Abstract

Chicken meat and its products are important for human diet in all over the world because they contribute to solve the global food problems and provide the well-known protein, fat, essential amino acids, minerals, vitamins and other nutrients and they also have a milder flavor which is more readily complemented with flavoring and sauces. Environmental pollution by heavy metals is considered as one of the most serious problems in the world over the last few decades. Emissions of heavy metals to the environment occur via a wide range of pathways, including air, water and soil, threatening the animal and human health and quality of the environment. Heavy metal toxicity could be present in different ways depending on its route of ingestion, its chemical form, dose, tissue affinity, age and sex, as well as whether exposure is acute or chronic and. Nowadays, poultry feed is produced from various raw materials such as fish by-products that can transfer heavy metals to poultry feed in undesirable levels following collecting them from contaminated waters, that may lead to increase of trace metals in chicken and chicken products with a serious threat because of their toxicity, bioaccumulation and biomagnifications in the food chain.

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