SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2019
How Safe is Chicken Litter for Land Application as an Organic Fertilizer? A Review.
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- Enhancing biodegradation of vegetable oil-contaminated soil with soybean texturized waste, spent mushroom substrate, and stabilized poultry litter in microcosm systems.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2024Article
- Knowledge and practices related to antibiotics among poultry producers and veterinarians in two Indian states.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2024Article
- Hazards Associated with the Combined Application of Fungicides and Poultry Litter in Agricultural Areas.Journal of xenobiotics · 2024Review
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- Investigations of Histomonosis-Favouring Conditions: A Hypotheses-Generating Case-Series-Study.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Chopped straw and coffee husks affect bedding chemical composition and the performance and foot pad condition of broiler chickens.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Poultry farmers' knowledge, attitude, and practices toward poultry waste management in Bangladesh.Veterinary world · 2023Article
- Application of Eugenol in Poultry to ControlVeterinary sciences · 2023Review
- Prevalence of Escherichia coli strains in horticultural farms from Argentina: antibiotic resistance, biofilm formation, and phylogenetic affiliation.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Chicken litter application on land as an organic fertilizer is the cheapest and most environmentally safe method of disposing of the volume generated from the rapidly expanding poultry industry worldwide. However, little is known about the safety of chicken litter for land application and general release into the environment. Bridging this knowledge gap is crucial for maximizing the benefits of chicken litter as an organic fertilizer and mitigating negative impacts on human and environmental health. The key safety concerns of chicken litter are its contamination with pathogens, including bacteria, fungi, helminthes, parasitic protozoa, and viruses; antibiotics and antibiotic-resistant genes; growth hormones such as egg and meat boosters; heavy metals; and pesticides. Despite the paucity of literature about chicken litter safety for land application, the existing information was scattered and disjointed in various sources, thus making them not easily accessible and difficult to interpret. We consolidated scattered pieces of information about known contaminants found in chicken litter that are of potential risk to human, animal, and environmental health and how they are spread. This review tested the hypothesis that in its current form, chicken litter does not meet the minimum standards for application as organic fertilizer. The review entails a meta-analysis of technical reports, conference proceedings, peer-reviewed journal articles, and internet texts. Our findings indicate that direct land application of chicken litter could be harming animal, human, and environmental health. For example, counts of pathogenic strains of
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