Consuming Chicken, Fish Reared With Steroids, Hormones Dangerous To Public Health – Physicians Warns

Health experts have raised the alarm that some farmers are using hormones, steroids and a lot of antibiotics in rearing chicken and fish.
This practice is inimical to public health, warning that it may cause serious health problems like allergies and asthma in children. According to the experts, hormones such as steroids, oestrogens, gestagens, and androgens, nonsteroidal, semisynthetic, and synthetic or designer drugs are all growth promoting and body partitioning agents. They stated that some farm owners use these chemicals to improve body weight gain and increase feed conversion efficiency, this is wrong. According to them, the use of these hormones and hormonal growth promoting agents eventually ends up with the occurrence of residues in animal food. They cautioned that the incidence of hormone residues in such types of food and food products is a risk factor and for the occurrence of public health problems.