Meat and Organs Quality of Broiler Chickens Fed Diet Contaminated with B1 Aflatoxin

2014

Global Veterinaria 12 (3): 376-380

Saqer Herzallah, Nofal Al-Ameiri, Hanee Al-Dmoor, Sameer Masoud and Khalil Shawabkeh

The levels of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) in breast, leg, liver, kidney and gizzard and in litter were studied in broilers chicks maintained for 6 weeks on AFB1 contaminated diets of 0.0(group 1,control group), 384.5 μg/kg AFB1 (group2,treatment 1), or 128.9 μg/kg  AFB1(group3,treatment2). The highest AFB1 of 1.2 μg/kg was at the third week in liver tissues and 0.8 μg/kg in chicken legs fed diet contaminated with 374.53 ppb AFB1. Breast and gizzard showed lower AFB1 concentrations of 0.5 and 0.8 μg/kg, respectively, than treatment 1 at the end of the third week. The residual level of AFB1 were increased in liver and kidney of 2.1 and 1.9 μg/kg AFB1 at wk 6 and chickens breast and leg AFB1 levels also affected and increased to 0.93 and 1.64 μg/kg, respectively.