Presented by Tran Thi Tuyet Hanh, Sinh Dang-Xuan, Hung Nguyen-Viet, Fred Unger, Chu Van Tuat, Ngan Tran Thi and Phuc Pham Duc at the 4th Food Safety and Zoonoses Symposium for Asia Pacific and 2nd Regional EcoHealth Symposium, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 3-5 August 2015.
Antibiotic residues and heavy metals in pork at wet markets in Vietnam
1. Antibiotic residues and heavy metal in pork at
wet markets in Vietnam
Tran Thi Tuyet Hanh, Sinh Dang-Xuan, Hung Nguyen-Viet, Fred Unger,
Chu Van Tuat, Ngan Tran Thi, Phuc Pham Duc
4th Food Safety and Zoonoses Symposium for Asia Pacific and 2nd Regional EcoHealth Symposium
Chiang Mai, Thailand, 3-5 August 2015
2. Outline
1. Chemical hazards in pork and concerns
2. Objectives
3. Sampling and sample analyses
4. Results and discussion
5. Conclusions
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4. Found some pig farms using banned
substance- Beta agonist (in Dong Nai
province)
Sub-DAH Dong Nai proposed to treat
this as an criminal affaires rather than
civilian issues that claim a low fine
News
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5. Chemical hazards in pork
Vietnam, pork makes up ~75% of meat consumed daily,
Substantial benefits to the smallholders who supply 80% of
the market,
Consumers have paid special concern over food safety
issues, especial health risks associated with chemical
hazards.
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6. Farm Transportation to SH SH ConsumersRetailer
Heavy metals (farms/processing)
Antibiotic residues,
growth promoters
HCAs & PAHs
Chemical hazards and pig value chain
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7. Heavy metals: Lead (Pb), Cadmium (Cd), Arsenic (As)
Antibiotic residues: Sulfonamide, tetracycline, chloramphenicol,…
Growth promoters: β-agonists (salbutamol, clenbuterol)
Dioxins and POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants)
Additives: Sodium nitrat/nitrit, Potasium nitrat/nitrit
Heterocyclic aromatic amines (HCAs), polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons (PAHs).
• Antibiotic residue
• Heavy metal
• Growth promoter
Chemical hazards and pig value chain
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8. 2. Objectives
To assess the prevalence and concentrations of antibiotic,
growth promoters and heavy metal residues in pork at wet
market in Vietnam
To provide data for health risk assessment of chemical
hazards in pork.
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10. Study location
Hung Yen:
Van Giang
Khoai Chau
Tien Lu
Nghe An:
Hung Nguyen
Do Luong
Dien Chau
Each district: 3 communes
Total: 3 * 6 = 18 communes
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11. Farm Transportation to SH Slaughterhouse ConsumersRetailer
• Feed in bags, remaining
feeds at the cages
• Pork• Liver
• Kidney
Sampling points
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12. Total collected samples
* Total: 3 communes * 6 districts = 18 communes
18 pooled samples each type => Laboratory analyses
Location
Slaughterhouses Markets
Kidney Liver Pork
Hung Yen 44 44 94
Khoai Chau 15 15 27
Tien Lu 14 14 33
Van Giang 15 15 34
Nghe An 44 44 96
Dien Chau 14 14 34
Do Luong 15 15 32
Hung Nguyen 15 15 30
Total 88 88 190
Pooled* 18 18 18
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13. i. Screening (ELISA)
ii. Confirmation (LC/MS/MS: Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry)
Laboratory analyses:
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15. Screening 18 pooled samples by ELISA
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Samples Tetracycli-
ne group
Fluoroquino-
lones group
Sulfonamide
s group
Chloram-
phenicol
B-agonist
Liver (n=18) 0 0 2 0 2
Kidney (n=18) 0 1 2 0 0
Pork (n=18) 0 0 9 5 1
Number of positive samples by screening antibiotic residue and β-agonist
16. Identification of heavy metals
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Samples Lead Cadmium Arsenic
Liver (n=18) 10 18 0
Kidney (n=18) 7 18 0
Pork (n=18) 5 0 0
Number of positive samples by AAS method on heavy metals
17. Vietnamese MRL for Pb: in pork: 100 µg/kg; other parts 500 µg/kg
for Cd: in pork, liver: 50 µg/kg; kidney 1000 µg/kg, not allow to find Beta-agonist,
chloramphenicol in liver, kidney
Antibiotic, growth promotor and heavy metal residues in liver and
kidney samples
Chemical
LoD (µg/kg) Method
Residue µ(min-max) (µg/kg)
Liver Kidney
Sulfonamides group
Sulfamethazine 15 LCMSMS 67.8 (44.7-90.8) 86.93
Sulfaquinoxalin 15 LCMSMS - -
Chloramphenicol
Chloramphenicol 0.15 LCMSMS - -
β-agonist
Salbutamol 0.2 LCMSMS 4.24 (2.77-5.71) -
Clenbuterol 0.2 LCMSMS - -
Heavy metals
Lead (Pb) 70 AAS 117.4 (71.3-302.7) 127.9 (70.5-208.1)
Cadmium (Cd) 10 AAS 17.5 (10.4-31.6) 222.7 (126-382.7)
Arsenic (As) 50 AAS - -
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18. Antibiotic, growth promotor and heavy metal residues in pork
Chemical
LoD
(µg/kg)
Method
Residue µ(min-max)
(µg/kg)
Sulfonamides group
Sulfamethazine 15 LC-MS/MS 155.5 (35.6-263.2)
Sulfaquinoxalin 15 LC-MS/MS -
Chloramphenicol
Chloramphenicol 0.3 LC-MS/MS 0.54 (0.34-0.76)
β-agonist
Salbutamol 0.2 LC-MS/MS 1.09
Clenbuterol 0.2 LC-MS/MS
Heavy metal
Lead (Pb) 70 AAS 74.1 (70.14-78.7)
Cadmium (Cd) 10 AAS -
Arsenic (As) 50 AAS -
Vietnamese MRL for Pb: in pork: 100 µg/kg
Not allow to find Beta-agonist, chloramphenicol in pork
Vietnamese MRL for Sulfonamide in pork: 100 µg/kg
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20. Present of chemical hazards in pork, liver, kidney:
Sulfonamides group: Sulfamethazine found in liver and
higher residue level in pork than MLR.
Chloramphenicol-found kidney and pork: banned drug
used in veterinary in Vietnam
β-agonist: Salbutamol (liver, kidney): banned substance
Heavy metal: found Pb, Cd in (liver, kidney), Pb in pork
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Findings address the potential abused of both antibiotic and
growth promotor in the studied pig production chain. There
need for further health risk assessment
21. References
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22. Vietnamese references on chemicals in pork
1.Lã Văn Kính (2009). “Điều tra tình hình ô nhiễm vi sinh vật, kim loại nặng, độc chất, kích
thích tố trong thức ăn chăn nuôi và trong thịt gia súc, gia cầm tại tỉnh Bình Dương và biện
pháp khắc phục”, Viện khoa học Kỹ thuật nông nghiệp miền nam, Sở khoa học và công
nghệ tỉnh Bình Dương.
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tính kháng thuốc của vi khuẩn gây bệnh”, Bộ môn Dinh dưỡng, khoa Chăn nuôi - Thú y,
trường Đại học Nông Lâm.
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nghiệp và Phát triển Nông thôn, truy cập ngày 30 tháng 1 2015 tại:
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References
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23. Acknowledgement
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
Project titled PigRISK: “Reducing disease risks and improving
food safety in smallholder pig value chains in Vietnam”
ILRI/N4H, CENPHER/HSPH and VNUA
Farmers, slaughterhouses, sellers and local authorities
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Salbutamol is white crystalline powder, soluble in water and sparingly soluble in chloroform and ethanol [58]. In livestock, salbutamol is used in pig farming to enhance lean for meat. In Binh Duong province, growth stimulants of β-agonists group is still surreptitiously added into pig’s feed. Using β-agonists in feed leads to high level of β-agonists residue in pork. According to a research in Binh Duong province, 4.61% pig feed samples were positive for β – agonists with the concentration range was from 2.12 to 28.4 ppb, and the proportion of positive samples in farm mixed feed tended to be higher than the products from market. In Binh Duong province also, 7.5% pork samples were positive for β-agonists with the concentration range was from 1.15 to 3.42 [6].
In Spain 1992, 113 people poisoned after using veal liver with salbutamol residue. They had symptoms of nervousness, tachycardia, muscle pain and headache, dyspnea and hyperglycemia, hypokalemia (rare) and leukocytosis [20], [54]. The other salbutamol effects are cramps, nausea, indisposed body, appetite, and hypertension. These side-effects are very common but mild that consumers might not detect the salbutamol residues as a root cause. Consuming salbutamol-contaminated meat may increase the risk of heart illness and hypertension. Nowadays, there are different methods to detect salbutamol residues in meat such as EIA, HPLC and GCMS. However, these methods are costly and difficult to be implemented in short time. Therefore, consumers have difficulties in detecting pork products with salbutamol.
Common negative effects of antibiotics residue in pork to consumers’ health are transfer antibiotic resistant bacteria to human, affect immune system, cause cancers (carcinogens as the Sulphamethazine, Oxytetracycline, Furazolidone), affect the respiratory system, cause kidney disease (Gentamicin), liver toxicity, reproductive disorders, bone marrow toxicity (chloramphenicol), allergies (penicillin, tetracycline) [11], [50], [52].
Depending on different types of antibiotics, the periods between stop using these substances to slaughter are different, but the average time is between 7-10 days. Therefore after taking antibiotics, it is not allowed to slaughter immediately. Farmers have to ensure there is no residual antibiotics in meat before bring onto the market.
According to the research of Vi Thi Thanh Thuy (2011), in Thai Nguyen, the level of antibiotic residues in meat products, pig kidney, pig liver is relatively high from 10.2% to 39.7%, with an average of 27.4% [11]. Study of La Van Kinh (2009) in Binh Duong shows chlortetracycline antibiotic widely used in pig feed (53.9% of samples) with an average content of 140 ppm, the highest is 275 ppm, 5 to 6 times more than the recommendation level for disease prevention and growth stimulation [6].
In Vietnam, the Ministry of Health has promulgated the regulations on antibiotic residues in pork (see Appendix 1). Veterinary Agency strengthens the monitoring and control antibiotic residues in meat [50].
Standard for lead: in pork: 0.1 mg/kg; other parts 0.5 mg/kg
Standard for cadimi: in pork: 0.05 mg/kg; liver 0.5 mg/kg; kidney 1 mg/kg