Ecology

Fish <Actinopterygii>

Risk analysis (engineering)

Food science

Aquaculture

Antibiotic resistance

Microbiology

Business

Biotechnology

Biology

Risk assessment

Computer science

Antibiotics

Agriculture

Fishery

Sanitation

Environmental science

Food safety

Environmental planning

Computer security

Environmental engineering

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Antibiotics are widely used in aquaculture. Intensive farming drives indiscriminate use of antibiotics, which results in residues of antibiotics in cultured aquatic products and bacterial resistance. This perspective attempts to present a brief update on usage, regulations, residues, and potential human health risk of antibiotics used in aquaculture. Through the comprehensive literature review, we provide a view that the safety of aquatic products still requires further attention and more rigorous risk assessment. Finally, we make a few suggestions for future research directions: reduce the use of antibiotics to bring down the speed of resistance development and monitor resistant pathogens and genes, strictly manage the environmental sanitation of aquaculture and pay attention to the quality of water bodies introduced into aquaculture, seek international cooperation to establish an information bank of antibiotic residues and antibiotic-resistant genes, and set up a quantitative model to assess the risk of antibiotic resistance associated with the antibiotic residues.

Antibiotics and Food Safety in Aquaculture