Uptake of Antibiotics into Crops

Antibiotics may also be taken up from soil into crops. The potential uptake of veterinary medicines into plants is receiving increasing attention. Studies with a wide range of veterinary medicines showed that a number of antibiotics are taken up by plants following exposure to soil at environmentally realistic concentrations of the 

ANTIBIOTIC RESIDUES IN EOOD AND DRINKING WATER, AND EOOD SAEETY REGULATIONS 

TABLE 3.9 Measured Concentrations of Veterinary Medicines in Surface Waters and Groundwaters 

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