He said that along with bones, liver and kidney, the level of antibiotics and lead in broiler feed was also found to be below the maximum permissible level.
On the use of tannery waste as broiler chicken feed, the Agriculture Minister said, ‘It is completely baseless. Because, currently the demand for poultry or chicken feed in the country is 9.5 million tonnes and cattle feed is 14.5 million tonnes, while the total tannery waste is only 85,000 tonnes.