Characterization of poultry house dust using chemometrics and scanning electron microscopy imaging.

ABSTRACT: Poultry house dust is composed of fine particles which likely originate from a diverse range of materials such as feed, litter, excreta, and feathers. Little is known about the contribution of these sources to broiler house airborne dust so the present study was designed to identify the relative contributions of these sources. Samples of feed, excreta, feather, and bedding, known mixtures of these and settled dust from 28 broiler chicken flocks were tested for the concentration of 18 chemical elements. A chemometrics approach (the application of multivariate statistical techniques to chemical analysis data) was used to identify the primary source material in broiler chicken house dust samples. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was also used to analyze dust sample particulates based on exa

SUBMITTER: Ahaduzzaman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8182433 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature