Abstract
ESTROGENICALLY-ACTIVE compounds within the animal system have long been demonstrated to exert profound physiological effects of economic value by promoting growth rate, feed efficiency, and increased carcass quality. Due to economic factors, a system for oral administration of estrogenic compounds to poultry is more desirable than implantation techniques. Numerous workers (Jaap and Thayer, 1944; Thayer et al., 1945; Jaap, 1945; Munro and Kosin, 1946; and Lorenz, 1954), have shown that dianisylhexene is one of the more potent estrogens when given orally to chickens.Due to the sex-hormonal action of this compound, the final deposition in any potential food system must be ascertained as a prerequesite to the commercial application of dianisylhexene in the production of poultry products. However, little has been done to determine the quantity of dianisylhexene which might be retained in broilers following oral administration.The application of a tracer technique appeared to present certain advantages over the …
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