Journal
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 61, Issue 17, Pages 4004-4010Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jf400570c
Keywords
chloramphenicol; natural occurrence; soil; crops; LC-MS; animal feed; residue analysis
Funding
- Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs [72.955.01]
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Due to the Unexpected, findings of the banned antibiotic chloramphenicol in products of animal origin, feed, and straw, the hypothesis was studied the drug is naturally present in soil, through production by soil bacteria, and subsequently can be transferred to crops. First, the stability of chlbramphenicol in soil was studied. The fate of chloramphenicol highly depends on soil type and showed a half-life of approximately one day in nonsterile topsoil. It was found to be more stable in subsoil and sterile soils. Second, the production of chloramphenicol in soil was studied, and it was confirmed that Streptomyces venezuelae can produce chloramphenicol at appreciable amounts in nonsterile soil. Third, a transfer study was carried out using wheat and maize grown on three different soils that were weekly exposed to aqueous chloramphenicol solutions at different levels. Chloramphenicol was taken up by crops as determined by chiral liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometric analysis, and the levels in crops were found to be bioavailability related. It was concluded that chloramphenicol residues can occur naturally in crops as a result of the production of chloramphenicol by soil bacteria in their natural environment and subsequent uptake by crops.
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