The Current Overview of Feed Additives and Veterinary Drugs and Their Residual Analysis in Japan

Recently, the average life span of Japanese male and female has been the highest in the world. Although several reasons are considered and pointed out, the improvement of their eating habits might highly contribute to the increased life span. Since the latest Japanese, particularly young people, prefer Western style meals, which are mainly composed of meat, to representative Japanese style, the livestock industry has grown prosperous. The breeding scale in the livestock industry has been enlarged and become intensive year by year in order to reduce running expenses. As shown in Fig. 1, broilers or poultry industry has taken the large-scale breeding.