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Animal-based food products derived from rabbit constitute a measurable portion of the human diet.
Data from animal-production research demonstrate that the quality of these products is directly related to animal feeding practices. For that reason, the ingredients used in animal feed and their contamination with undesirable substances are fundamentally important for both the quality of the resulting food products and the potential human health impacts associated with the animal-based foodproduction chain. Alternatively, inclusion of feed ingredients, which are potentially toxic or contaminated with toxic substances, may result in a range of biological or toxicological effects in the production of animals. Animal feed ingredients that constitute complete feed products are derived from different raw materials, such as plant and animal origin, as well as pharmaceutical and industrial sources. Additionally, the contamination of feed materials from the environment would also be important as a potential hazard. The present review summarizes some of the toxic effects of some potentially hazardous ingredients of rabbit feed, such as mycotoxins (aflatoxins, ochratoxin, citritin, patulin, Fusarium mycotoxins – including trichothecenes, zearalenone, fumonisins, moniliformin and fusaric acid), fats and fatty acids, amino acids and coccidiostats. There are also some data about contaminants, such as heavy metals (arsenic, aluminium, cadmium, lead, mercury, molybdenum), and chlorinated dioxins and dibenzofurans.
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Source : th e World Rabbit Congress – June 10-13, 2008 – Verona – Italy 506 506