No! Antibiotics In Animal Feed As Growth Boosters May Promote Resistant Bacterial Strains

[hatrack]

:silly:

Drugs fed to animals to promote growth and prevent diseases may play a key role in the emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria, microbiologists said Sunday.

The practice of administering large quantities of antimicrobial drugs "favours the emergence of drug resistant bacteria that can spread to humans through the consumption of contaminated food, from direct contact with animals or by environmental spread," said Awa Aidara-Kane of the World Health Organization.

"In addition, genes encoding for resistance can be transmitted from zoonotic bacteria to human pathogens," added Aidara-Kane, who leads the WHO Advisory Group on Integrated Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance.

She was speaking during the 51st annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy meeting this weekend in Chicago. In order to reduce the risk of the emergence and spread of resistant bacteria via the consumption of animal food products, the WHO suggests restricting and even eliminating the use of antibiotics to boost animal growth.

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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8303960

[SpiralHawk]

1. "No one could ever have imagined..." - Big Pharama (R) Big Ag (R) Big Crapola (R)

[ananda]

2. This is news?

Seems very old.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Well, it adds to the heap of comdemnatory evidence

...and should be welcomed, even if it does just underscore the obvious, because all the BIGS (pharma, ag, chem, etc.) are mounting a huge, well-funded propaganda campaign to promote mutant, chem-drenched crapola as the standard diet, while steadily attacking clean, wholesome, organic farming approaches, and food production.

[txlibdem]

7. +1

[DirkGently]

4. It's just crazy (obvious) enough to be true!

[DCKit]

5. Your title should have been "No Shit:...." nt

[kestrel91316]

6. We talked about this in microbiology class in the mid-70s. Microbiologists

aren't the least bit surprised.

I am ashamed to say my own veterinary profession is in deep denial about it.