Resíduos de antimicrobianos no leite e sua importância para a saúde pública

Abstract

Food and nutrition security is the realization of the right of everyone to regular and permanent access to quality food in sufficient quantity and without compromising access to other essential needs, including health promotion and quality assurance biological, health, nutritional and technological aspects of food. Some of the actions aimed at ensuring food safety are concerned with the control of residual remnants in food. The presence of antimicrobial residues in drinking milk is a cause for great concern, since in addition to causing economic losses by interfering in the production of dairy products, it poses risk to consumer health, which may predispose to allergic reactions, genotoxic and carcinogenic responses, and favor the emergence of resistant bacteria. In order to draw attention to this theme, the objective of this work is to carry out a review of the literature on antimicrobial residues in milk intended for human consumption and its implications for public health. For this purpose, databases, books, public entities' websites, specialized legislation, as well as informational and journalistic material regarding the subject matter were consulted. Based on the literature consulted, the presence of antimicrobial residues in milk is an important public health problem, because although there are government control and inspection programs, as well as supporting legislation, several studies carried out in several brazilian states, including in Pernambuco, have detected the presence of this type of contamination, reaching levels beyond the limits established in the specific standards. It is necessary that this topic be approached as a State policy, with broad actions encompassing different spheres and with due attention to the control and inspection programs, in addition, producers should be oriented about the risks that are involved, as well as the preventive strategies Veterinary Medicine assumes an important role in the search for a more sustainable and professionally managed animal husbandry, based on preventive health strategies and the adequate and rational use of therapeutic resources, concerned above all with the health and well-being of consumers and with the promotion of Single Health.