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STUDIES ON NITROFURAN CONTAMINATION IN EXPORTABLE SHRIMP AND PRAWN PRODUCTS (Pages : 130 - 135)

Bangladeshi consignments of frozen prawn and shrimp have been rejected by the EU and USA due to presence of nitrofuran drugs. Due to multi-stakeholders involvement in this sector, it is very difficult to identify the sources of nitrofuran contamination. Survey in Mymensingh revealed that most of the operators and farmers did not know about the devastating effect of nitrofuran drugs. Questionnaire survey in Cox’s Bazar region revealed that most of the hatchery operators knew about the nitrofuran drugs but they kept mum on nitrofuran related issues. Different antibiotics found in local veterinary drug shops of Cox’s Bazar and Khulna as supposed to be used in hatcheries. In both Khulna and Cox’s Bazar, hatchery operators were directly blamed by different stakeholders for using nitrofuran drug. Many hatchery technicians told that they used nitrofuran drugs in the hatcheries 5-6 years back before it was declared ban on shrimp products but now they were not using it. While asking about the unlabelled drugs using in their hatcheries, they became furious and did not answer but one guy disclosed tremendous PL survival and growth promoting charisma of nitrofuran.Download