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  • Title: Laboratory study of oxytetracycline degradation kinetics in animal manure and soil.
    Author: Wang Q, Yates SR.
    Journal: J Agric Food Chem; 2008 Mar 12; 56(5):1683-8. PubMed ID: 18257526.
    Abstract:
    Oxytetracycline (OTC) is a major member of tetracyclines, which are widely administered to animals in confined feeding operations. To diminish the contamination of OTC in the environment, which results from the application of OTC-containing manure as fertilizer in agricultural lands, OTC degradation kinetics in manure and soil under laboratory aerobic conditions was investigated. OTC degradation kinetics was found to be described well by the previously developed availability-adjusted first-order model at all moistures and low temperatures (<or=25 degrees C). OTC degradation increased with increasing moisture from 60 to 100%. However, OTC became very persistent in water-saturated manure. Increasing temperature greatly accelerated OTC degradation, and thermal degradation became noticeable at high temperatures (>or=35 degrees C) in manure. At 25 degrees C, OTC half-life was determined to be 8.1 days in manure with moisture at 80%, 33 days in manure-amended soil (amendment ratio at 5%), and 56 days in non-amended soil with both moistures at 20%, demonstrating that OTC may become persistent in the environment once it is released from manure into soil. No pronounced effect of coexistent antibiotics on OTC degradation in manure was observed.
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