Screening of Chemical Residues and Antimicrobial Resistance in Dehydrated Chicken Feet Intended as Dog Treats: A Pilot Study
Carlotta Marini, Francesco Lipani, Carla Sabia, Mario Nicotra, Ramona Iseppi, Giorgio Biscontini, Matteo Cerquetella, Marco Meschiari, Giuseppe Di Gregorio, Mahmoud Alagawany, Roberta Tardugno, Filomena Corbo, Alessandro Di Cerbo · 2026
Read Screening of Chemical Residues and Antimicrobial Resistance in Dehydrated Chicken Feet Intended as Dog Treats: A Pilot Study by Carlotta Marini, Francesco Lipani, Carla Sabia, Mario Nicotra, Ramona Iseppi, Giorgio Biscontini, Matteo Cerquetella, Marco Meschiari, Giuseppe Di Gregorio, Mahmoud Alagawany, Roberta Tardugno, Filomena Corbo, Alessandro Di Cerbo (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13411798.txt.
Description
Carlotta Marini leads a pilot study in 2026 screening dried chicken feet sold in Europe as dog treats for drug residues and resistant bacteria. Treats are the pet food market's fastest-growing slice, and farm antibiotic use upstream can echo in the bag. Eleven products bought on the European market went through chemical and bacterial testing.
Residues of several farm chemicals turned up in most samples, led by two poultry feed additives and a processing marker. Thirty-seven staph bacteria were grown, several shrugging off multiple antibiotics including key hospital drugs. No resistance appeared in one staph species. Layered residues raise the specter of combined effects over long feeding, which pushes the authors toward a One Health warning.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Carlotta Marini, Francesco Lipani, Carla Sabia, Mario Nicotra, Ramona Iseppi, Giorgio Biscontini, Matteo Cerquetella, Marco Meschiari, Giuseppe Di Gregorio, Mahmoud Alagawany, Roberta Tardugno, Filomena Corbo, Alessandro Di Cerbo |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 49 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |