Pesticide Contamination in Feed and Histopathology Overview of Cattle Hearts Slaughtered at Pesanggaran Denpasar RPH

The number of pests of plant diseases that attack agricultural crops that cause farmers to take precautions and treatment of cultivation plants by spraying using pesticides. Spraying action by using this pesticide also affects the grasses that grow around it which is a source of food for cattle. The ingestion of grass that is often exposed to pesticides causes changes in the liver of cows that consume the grass. This study aims to evaluate basic data from the image of the heart of Bali cows that eat grass contaminated with pesticides and slaughtered at the slaughterhouse in Pesanggaran, Denpasar. Histopathological description of the liver of Bali cattle may vary, depending on the level of contamination of various pesticide ingredients that are eaten by the cow. To see the histopathological changes in the liver of Bali cattle carried out by staining Hematoxylin Eosin (HE) and then it will be examined under a microscope. Observed changes that occur in the form of fatty degeneration, hemorrhage and necrosis.

The conclusion of this study is that cattle slaughtered in the Pesanggaran Denpasar RPH come from various districts in Bali and the hearts of bali cattle slaughtered in the Pesanggaran Denpasar RPH are mostly exposed to pesticides characterized by histopathological features in the form of fatty degeneration, hemorrhagic and necrosis.

Keywords: Bali cattle, liver, pesticides, necrosis