Assessment of Safety, Effects, and Muscle-Specific Accumulation of Dietary Butylated Hydroxytoluene (BHT) in Paralichthys olivaceus

Table 2

Growth performance of olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) fed experimental diets for 120 days¹.

	BHT0	BHT11	BHT19	BHT35	BHT85	BHT121	value
IBW^2							0.943
FBW^3							0.492
WG (%)^4							0.460
FI (g/fish)^5							0.922
BHT intake (mg/fish)	0.0^f	^e	^d	^c	^b	^a	<0.001
FCR^6							0.864
Survival (%)^7	100						0.943

¹Values are means from triplicate groups of fish where the values in each row with different superscripts are significantly different (). ²Initial body weight (IBW g/fish). ³Final body weight (FBW g/fish). ⁴. ⁵Feed intake (FI, g/fish). ⁶. ⁷.