Utilizing Microbiological Techniques: The Residual Microorganisms in Poultry Flesh Raised at Random Between 2024 and 2025

Suad Saeed; Najah Mohamad; Mousa Gaballah; Abdulsalam Saleh; Randa Hamad; Saleh Bufarwa; Hajir Othman

doi:10.54361/ajmas.258264

Authors

Suad Saeed Department of Pharmaceuticals and Forensic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Omar Al-Mukhtar, EL-Beida, Libya https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1017-3922
Najah Mohamad Department of Pharmaceuticals and Forensic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Omar Al-Mukhtar, EL-Beida, Libya https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6879-1994
Mousa Gaballah Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Omar Mukhtar University, Al-Bayda, Libya https://orcid.org/0009-0001-7588-2226
Abdulsalam Saleh Department of Health Food Hygiene, Omar AL Mukhtar University, EL-Beida, Libya https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4279-9972
Randa Hamad Department of Health Food Hygiene, Omar AL Mukhtar University, EL-Beida, Libya https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5929-6374
Saleh Bufarwa Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Omar Al-Mukhtar University, El-Beida, Libya https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0869-2879
Hajir Othman Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Benghazi, Libya https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5241-5265

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54361/ajmas.258264

Keywords:

Poultry Meat, Antibiotic Residues, Oxytetracycline, Penicillin, Sulfadimidine, Gentamicin

Abstract

Veterinary biomass is an effective resource used throughout the rural areas of the study region. However, animal use is unclear and can lead to unhealthy debt management, thus contributing to animal consumption, and even to the environment. This study aimed to evaluate the presence of biomass in poultry meat using microbiological methods based on traditional methods recommended and approved by the French Food Safety Authority. For this purpose, 150 poultry meat samples were taken from different farms and directly examined using a standardized agar diffusion technique, cultured with two strains: Bacillus licheniformis and Staphylococcus aureus. After 110 original analytical results were generated from 150 poultry meat samples, the diagnostic result was 73% for antibiotic residues. However, most of them contained 36.36% oxytetracycline, 22.72% penicillin, and 9% sulfadimidine. In contrast, gentamicin yielded a positive rate of 31.8%. This suggests to physicians that these medications are being used indiscriminately and without specific treatment, without a prescription, or following the protocol and health requirements for the use of vital types of insurance, and adhering to the drug withdrawal period. This leads to the permanent presence of these meats, and farmers are also failing to adhere to the 45-day marketing period, all of which will harm consumers.