AICHI.PREFECTURAL HEALTH

Since over 60% of all antibiotics used in Japan for veterinary purposes are tetracyclines (35), targeted surveys of tetracycline residues in animal tissues have become of particular importance for public health agencies in Japan (36, 37). In 1991, a limited survey in the Aichi prefecture of residual tetracyclines in tissues collected from 64 cattle and 68 hogs of 1358 slaughtered animals that did not pass inspection at slaughterhouses due to presence of disease symptoms was conducted (38). Among 271 kidney, liver, and other organ samples, 49 (18.1%) were positive to oxytetracycline, 5 (1.8%) to chlortetracycline, and 5 (1.8%) to doxycycline, respectively. One cattle kidney sample was positive to both oxytetracycline and doxycycline, whereas tetracycline was not detected in any of the samples. 

Japan,National Institute of Health Sciences Aichi,Prefectural Institute of Public Healtb Niigata Prefectural Research Laboratory for Health Environment... 

Aichi Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Nagoya, Japan... 

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Aichi Prefectural College of Nursing and Health, Nagoya, Aichi 463-8502, Japan... 

Tomomi Goto / Aichi Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Nagoya, Japan Mohan Gownder / Huntsman Polymers Corp., Odessa, Texas, U.S.A. 

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