Water pollution by wastes of poultry automatic slaughter house in Belbis canal

ABSTRACT

Water pollution is one of the major problems confronting public healthofficials everywhere. The present study tried to screen some importanttoxic anions and heavy metals as wastes pollutants in the surface water ofBelbis Canal, Sharqia Governorate, Egypt. Fifty water samples were collectedalong different steps of an automatic Poultry Slaughter House. The levels ofnitrite, phosphate, chloride, cadmium, mercury, zinc and lead were recorded ineach step of the plant. The results showed that the levels of all themicroscopical examination of some organs of albino rats treated by mercury,lead or cadmium with the high test concentration of heavy metals obtained inwater samples revealed histopathological alterations