Consumer demand is more and more influenced by growing concerns on healthiness of the meat and the impact that modern methods of production could have. Two other matters that are most widespread in the developed world relate to residues and contaminants. The fear that substances administered to animals to promote growth or to prevent or treat disease, pesticides used in plants which are then used to feed animals and ‘additives’ in some processed meat products, could leave residues in the meat which are then harmful to the consumer’s health, is common in the developed world. The wholesomeness of rabbit meat derives from the absence or sporadic presence of zoonosis and drug residues (Facchin et al., 1996). The frequency of multi-factorial pathologies in rabbit breeding farms have promoted an excessive use of antibiotics, with the possible presence of residues in meats at dangerous levels