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Area of Science:

• Food safety analysis
• Analytical chemistry
• Pharmacology in food production

Context:

• Drugs enter the food supply through animal therapeutics, zootechnical feed supplementation, and human food additives.
• The presence of pharmaceutical residues in food poses potential health risks to consumers.
• Ensuring the safety of the food supply necessitates robust methods for drug residue detection.

Purpose:

• To review and discuss methods for the quantitative determination of drugs in food and animal feed.
• To highlight the critical analytical requirements for drug determination: specificity, sensitivity, accuracy, and rapidity.
• To examine various analytical techniques applicable to drug residue analysis in food matrices.

Summary:

• The abstract discusses the sources of drug contamination in food, including veterinary medicines and feed supplements.
• It emphasizes the importance of analytical methods that are specific, sensitive, accurate, and rapid for drug determination.
• Spectroscopic, electrochemical, and chromatographic techniques are presented as key analytical approaches, with examples like ipronidazole and chloramphenicol.

Impact:

• Provides a foundation for developing and validating analytical methods for drug residues in food.
• Contributes to regulatory efforts aimed at safeguarding public health by controlling drug use in food-producing animals.
• Underscores the necessity of quality assurance in analytical testing to ensure reliable food safety data.