Chlortetracycline hydrochloride is a broad-spectrum tetracycline antibiotic with excellent bacteriostatic activity against various gram-positive bacteria, gram-negative bacteria, mycoplasma and chlamydia. It is widely used in veterinary medicine industry for preventing and treating livestock and poultry intestinal infectious diseases, respiratory inflammation and bacterial mixed infections, and commonly added into animal feed as growth-promoting additive to reduce disease incidence and improve breeding efficiency. In pharmaceutical field, it is prepared into external ointment, eye drops and oral preparations for treating human skin bacterial infection, ocular inflammation and mild systemic bacterial infection. It also plays an important role in aquatic breeding to control aquatic organism bacterial diseases and stabilize aquaculture environment. In biological research, it is used as selective antibiotic reagent for microbial strain screening, cell culture and bacterial resistance mechanism research. With stable medicinal effect and wide antibacterial spectrum, this product has long been the mainstream antibacterial raw material in animal health care, clinical external medication and biological experiment fields, owning huge market demand and mature downstream application system.

This product belongs to pharmaceutical antibiotic raw material with certain irritation and drug allergy risk. Inhalation of fine powder will stimulate respiratory tract and nasal mucosa, easily cause throat itching, cough and nasal discomfort, so operators must wear dust-proof mask and keep working area fully ventilated. Direct skin contact may trigger local redness, itching and allergic dermatitis, especially for people with drug allergy constitution, so wear protective gloves and wash contacted skin with clean water timely after operation. Once it enters eyes accidentally, it will cause obvious stinging and conjunctival irritation, continuously flush eyes with plenty of flowing clear water for more than fifteen minutes and seek medical treatment immediately. Accidental excessive ingestion will cause gastrointestinal disorders such as nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, and may induce drug resistance and flora imbalance, take symptomatic treatment in time. This substance is easy to decompose and fail under strong light and high temperature, and shall be stored separately from alkaline substances and other antibiotics. Waste materials and leftover products must be disposed in accordance with pharmaceutical waste disposal standards to prevent drug residue pollution and avoid inducing bacterial drug resistance in ecological environment.