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More Antibiotics In White Meat or Dark Meat?

Concentrations of antibiotic residues vary between different edible muscle tissues in poultry.

November 8, 2012 |
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More Antibiotics In White Meat or Dark Meat?, 4.0 out of 5 based on 3 ratings

Sources Cited

Reyes-Herrera I, Schneider MJ, Cole K, Farnell MB, Blore PJ, Donoghue DJ. Concentrations of antibiotic residues vary between different edible muscle tissues in poultry. J Food Prot. 2005 Oct;68(10):2217-9.

Acknowledgements

Images thanks to: Gran via Wikimedia Commons, snowpea&bokchoi, and goodiesfirst.

Transcript

Concentrations of antibiotic residues vary between different edible muscle tissues in poultry. In which muscles do antibiotic residues concentrate the most? White meat, dark meat, or both the same? And the answer is, white meat. Significantly more antibiotic residues in breast meat compared to thigh. Those were the only two tested, though. “Even though the present study found greater residue concentrations in breast versus thigh muscle tissues, the possibility also exists that other edible muscle tissues (e.g., legs or wings) could have even higher levels.”

To see any graphs, charts, graphics, images, and quotes to which Dr. Greger may be referring watch the above video. This is just an approximation of the audio contributed by Kerry Skinner.

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Dr. Michael Greger

Doctor's Note

How long does it take to reduce one's body load of antibiotics from meat? Just days! See yesterday’s NutritionFacts.org video-of-the-day Lowering Dietary Antibiotic Intake. Our exposure to drugs given to chickens and turkeys may be one reason poultry consumption has been associated with significantly higher lymphoma and leukemia risk. See EPIC Findings on Lymphoma and Chicken Dioxins, Viruses, or Antibiotics? A Carcinogenic Retrovirus Found in Eggs and poultry may also be playing a role.

For some context, please check out my associated blog post: How To Reduce Dietary Antibiotic Intake

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  • http://nutritionfacts.org/ Michael Greger M.D.

    How long does it take to reduce one’s body load of antibiotics from meat? Just days! See yesterday’s NutritionFacts.org video-of-the-day Lowering Dietary Antibiotic Intake. Our exposure to drugs given to chickens and turkeys may be one reason poultry consumption has been associated with significantly higher lymphoma and leukemia risk. See EPIC Findings on Lymphoma and Chicken Dioxins, Viruses, or Antibiotics?. A Carcinogenic Retrovirus Found in Eggs and poultry may also be playing a role.

    If you haven’t yet, you can subscribe to my videos for free by clicking here.

    • Jo

      Love it! It’s easier to notice your other available information with the columns on the first page. Would still like to see your commentary placed first, above others. In Firefox, on my Mac, there’s a couple of comments ahead of yours for this video.

      • http://nutritionfacts.org/ Michael Greger M.D.

        Thanks so much for the feedback–I deleted it down here and put it up in the new Dr. Greger’s Notes section so it will always be visible up top!

  • RJ

    I know you are big on plant based diets. However, i do not eat grocery/production meats. All meats in the grocery stores are from factory farms. i raise my own chickens, eggs, ducks, geese, cows, goats, all on pasture and no antibiotics or GMOs. They are all free pasture ranged. I am 58 and very healthy and i eat some meat every day (my home grown stuff). So i think that healthy diet has more to do with how our food is produced/grown/fed, than actually WHAT we are eating. I also eat all my own garden veggies & fruits (no pest/herbicides) and if i purchase, then i try to only purchase organically grown.

    • Thea

      RJ: I applaud you for trying to eat healthy. I also encourage you to watch more videos on this site so that you can improve your healthy eating. There are some things that are inherent in a food itself that no amount of production process changes. If you are interested, you can find all sorts of scientific information this site that explains the details.

      Good luck!

    • Tag

      RJ, I agree with you and your approach to food. The studies that Dr.
      Gregor discusses regarding factory farmed animals are really interesting
      but can not be applied to pasture/organic raised animals.

  • Thea

    Should we give feedback on the new site here? Or is there a better place for it?

    I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that the new site does not auto-start the videos every time you do something on the page. That’s a huge relief.

    On the downer side: One thing I already miss from the old site is the feature that shows the next 4 videos – including wrapping around. So, previously, it was very easy for me to go to the latest video-of-the-day, and see the next 4 videos on the right of the screen. Since it was the latest video of the day, the next 4 videos were actually the first 4 videos from Volume 1.

    Aside from just liking the feature of being able to scan 4 videos ahead at any point, being able to quickly find the first videos from Volume 1 was really important. Two of those videos are extremely hard to find via the Search feature, and yet I want to show those videos to people often and want to give people a way to get the “first one” and thus follow the whole set of videos in order if they want.

    Maybe I’ve missed it, but if you don’t already have such a feature, maybe you do this: Have links to videos by volume. For example, links like:
    Volume 1
    Volume 2
    Volume 3
    ….
    Volume 11 where the links take people to the first video of the volume. That would be great.

    Then, the wrap-around feature would not matter so much, but I would still like to be able to scan ahead and see much more than just 1 “next video” for videos in the middle of the series.

    Just something to think about.

    Thanks

  • cpilon

    I wondered if this is true with organically raised chicken or turkey? With Thanksgiving in less than 2 weeks I will buy organic and spend the extra $$ if it is healthier.

  • R Ian Flett

    Interestingly, another study showed that in eating fish, darker meat consumption was associated with higher rates of heart attack. They gave no causative reason for this, however.

  • PaddyCakes

    Bugs! Did you just say bugs! Yikes. I feel itchy all over.

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