FLORFENICOL

Florfenicol are broad spectrum antibiotics closely related in structure and activity to chloramphenicol. Florfenicol have similar antibacterial spectra to chloramphenicol but have not been associated with aplastic anaemia (23). Both drugs have been used for the treatment of infectious diseases in cattle, pigs and poultry. Florfenicol is used extensively in veterinary medicine and it's use in food producing animals could result in potentially harmful concentrations in tissue, organs and milk. The potential risk is reduced by withdrawal of the drug for a fixed period before slaughter, although residual levels may remain.