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Journal of Integrative Agriculture  2012, Vol. 12 Issue (1): 109-115    DOI: 10.1016/S1671-2927(00)8514
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Tissue Deposition and Residue Depletion in Broiler Exposed to Melamine-Contaminated Diets
 DING Xue-mei, BAI Shi-ping, ZHANG Ke-ying, WANG Liang, WU Cai-mei, CHEN Dai-wen, JIA Gang , BAI Jie
1.Institute of Animal Nutrition, Key Laboratory for Animal Disease-Resistance Nutrition of China, Ministry of Education, Sichuan Agricultural University, Yaan 625014, P.R.China
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摘要  To investigate the tissue deposition and elimination of melamine (MEL) in broilers, a total of 1 920 commercial 1-d-old male Cobb broilers were randomly allotted to 6 treatments with diets contaminated by MEL at 0, 2, 10, 30, 50, 100 mg kg-1 of diet for 42 d, and followed MEL withdrawal from diet at 50 or 100 mg kg-1 of diet for 96 h. The MEL was found in residue of plasma, liver, kidney, breast, and leg muscle with the highest level in kidney and in dose response manner (except in kidney), but no time response (except in plasma). The MEL residue in organ tissue was below the safe level of 50 μg mL-1 in blood or 50 μg kg-1 in tissues proposed by the US FSIS when MEL in diet was lower (2 mg kg-1). The MEL in tissues was eliminated by withdrawal MEL from diets. The elimination half-life of MEL was from 3.2 to 6.6 h, and the clearance time, when MEL residue concentration under limit detection, was from 18.0 to 31.4 h.

Abstract  To investigate the tissue deposition and elimination of melamine (MEL) in broilers, a total of 1 920 commercial 1-d-old male Cobb broilers were randomly allotted to 6 treatments with diets contaminated by MEL at 0, 2, 10, 30, 50, 100 mg kg-1 of diet for 42 d, and followed MEL withdrawal from diet at 50 or 100 mg kg-1 of diet for 96 h. The MEL was found in residue of plasma, liver, kidney, breast, and leg muscle with the highest level in kidney and in dose response manner (except in kidney), but no time response (except in plasma). The MEL residue in organ tissue was below the safe level of 50 μg mL-1 in blood or 50 μg kg-1 in tissues proposed by the US FSIS when MEL in diet was lower (2 mg kg-1). The MEL in tissues was eliminated by withdrawal MEL from diets. The elimination half-life of MEL was from 3.2 to 6.6 h, and the clearance time, when MEL residue concentration under limit detection, was from 18.0 to 31.4 h.
Keywords:  melamine      broiler      deposition      elimination  
Received: 04 November 2010   Accepted:
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This study was supported by the Special Fund for Establishment of Maximum Residue Limit of MEL in feed (Ministry of Agriculture, China).

Corresponding Authors:  Correspondence ZHANG Ke-ying, Tel: +86-835-2885630, E-mail: zkeying@yahoo.com     E-mail:  zkeying@yahoo.com
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DING Xue-mei, BAI Shi-ping, ZHANG Ke-ying, WANG Liang, WU Cai-mei, CHEN Dai-wen, JIA Gang , BAI Jie. 2012. Tissue Deposition and Residue Depletion in Broiler Exposed to Melamine-Contaminated Diets. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 12(1): 109-115.

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