USE OF ANTIBIOTICS
Antibiotics Used as Animal Feed Additives.
Does This Contribute to Increased Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics?
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~fuchs/abr/
Careful USe of Antibiotics to Prevent Resistance
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/cause/april97.htm
Antimicrobial Resistance
http://www.fda.gov/cvm/antimicrobial/antimicrobial.html
Antibiotic growth-promoters in food animals
There has been a developing controversy surrounding the use of antibiotics as
growth promoters for food animals. These drugs are used at low doses in animal
feeds and are considered to improve the quality of the product, with a lower
percentage of fat and higher protein content in the meat. Other benefits of the
use of antibiotic growth-promoters include control of zoonotic pathogens such as
Salmonella, Campylobacter, Escherichia coli and enterococci. Use of any
antibiotic is associated with the selection of resistance in pathogenic bacteria
and it has been argued that the use of antibiotic growth-promoters imposes a
selection pressure for bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics that may be
used in clinical or veterinary practice, thus compromising the continued use of
antimicrobial chemotherapy. This paper considers the use of antibiotics as
growth promoters and then examines some of the alternative methods for achieving
meat of high quality
http://tinyurl.com/3zgnn
The Green Book
The FDA Approved Animal Drug Products, (Green Book), is published by the Drug
Information Laboratory
http://www.fda.gov/cvm/greenbook/greenbook.html
Food Safety and Residues
http://tinyurl.com/4km23
Pfizer Animal Health, a passion for the health and wellness of animals – and a
commitment to research – combine to help protect the health of pets and farm
animals and the productivity of livestock.
http://tinyurl.com/4sjfh
Food Safety - From farm to Fork
The EU integrated approach to food safety aims to assure a high level of food
safety, animal health, animal welfare and plant health within the European Union
through coherent farm-to-table measures and adequate monitoring, while ensuring
the effective functioning of the internal market.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/index_en.htm
