Mohammad Ali Zazouli - Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Health Sciences Research Center, School of Health, MazandaranUniversity of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
Jamshid Yazdani Cherati - Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Health Sciences Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
Davood Belarek - MSC of Environmental Health Engineering, Student Research Committee, School of Health, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
Samaneh Taheri Otaghsara - BSC Student of Environmental Health Engineering, Student Research Committee, School of Health, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran

Background & Objectives: Aviculture is an enormous and profitable industry, which attracts enormous investment after petroleum. Aviculture has a key role in providing animal protein. They are also important in terms of environmental health, due to producing wastes such as excrements, poultry carcasses and odour emission. Therefore, the aim of this study was to survey aviculture industries in Babol, ۲۰۱۳. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on all the poultries in Babol. For this purpose, ۶۷ avicultures were randomly chosen. The data were collected using checklists, completed through interviews and observation. Results: The results demonstrated that ۷۳% of the aviculture workers have medical check-up records. All the workers used uniforms and protection tools. All the poultry farms had first aid kit. Only one of them used carcass burning furnace to exterminate cadavers. Additionally, ۹% of wastewater systems were not suitable. The roofs, walls and floors were ideally flat, washable and disinfectable. Moreover, ۲۵% of the poultry farms did not have verification for microbial quality of drinking-water. The shortest distance to the first residential area was lower than ۲۰۰ meters. Conclusion: This study showed that although avicultures are in good hygiene conditions, their distance to residential areas was less than standard. Therefore, this issue must be considered in future residential developments and aviculture siteselections.

Aviculture, Contamination, Environmental health, بهداشت محیط, مرغداری گوشتی, آلودگی