PESTICIDES AND LIVESTOCK

Kemal Çelik, Ýsmet Yýldýrým

Abstract: All concentrated raw materials are naturally contaminated with various yeasts, fungi and bacteria. These live features may proliferate rapidly under desirable circumstances undermining the performance of the animals that feed upon them and giving way to serious health issues in those animals. However, in the past few years, the use of pesticides in high concentrations in the livestock sector and in agricultural fight has brought along the presence of residues and related health issues. The wide and the unconscious use of pesticides in their respective areas have accelerated its environmental accumulation. These chemicals, which also have the capability to easily accumulate in other nutrients cause serious health issues in humans when they are taken in to the body through the food chain. Pesticides, negatively affecting the health of human beings and animals via causing the formation of reactive oxygen species such as H2O2, O2- and OH, may result in enzyme inactivation and DNA damage in the organism.

Keywords: Feed; Livestock; Pesticides

Date published: 2023-02-22