AbstractThe rapid growth and intensification of aquaculture industries have led to an increased use of antibiotics. Consequently, growing concerns have mounted over the environmental contamination of these drugs from medicated feeds and the risk that this poses for antimicrobial resistance. To circumvent environmental leaching, farmers topcoat medicated feeds with oil; however, this only partially addresses the issue. This study investigated the potential of food‐grade pregelatinized corn starch (PGS) as a second top‐coating agent to reduce oxytetracycline (OTC) leaching from the hand‐mixed medicated feed. We immersed top‐coated medicated feeds for different periods of time and measured the concentration of OTC in the water to determine leaching. We found a significantly lower level of OTC in water samples collected from the PGS‐coated medicated feed compared to the non‐PGS‐coated medicated feed, with concentrations of OTC approximately 4 and 2.6 times the latter after 5 min and 2 h of water immersion, respectively. We also fed PGS‐coated antibiotic feed to jade perch to determine if fish accepted the top‐coating and whether they absorbed the OTC. Results from a feeding trial suggested no difference in palatability between PGS and non‐PGS‐coated medicated feed. We also found that muscle tissue from fish fed with the aforementioned diets had similar levels of OTC concentrations, suggesting that PGS coating does not alter the gastrointestinal absorption of this medication. From our experiment, we conclude that PGS is potentially a new top‐coating agent to reduce leaching in hand‐mixed OTC medicated feed.

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