The Use of Drugs in Food Animals

The Use of Drugs in Food Animals
Author: National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Food and Nutrition Board,Board on Agriculture,Committee on Drug Use in Food Animals,Panel on Animal Health, Food Safety, and Public Health
Publsiher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1999-01-12
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780309175777

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The use of drugs in food animal production has resulted in benefits throughout the food industry; however, their use has also raised public health safety concerns. The Use of Drugs in Food Animals provides an overview of why and how drugs are used in the major food-producing animal industriesâ€"poultry, dairy, beef, swine, and aquaculture. The volume discusses the prevalence of human pathogens in foods of animal origin. It also addresses the transfer of resistance in animal microbes to human pathogens and the resulting risk of human disease. The committee offers analysis and insight into these areas: Monitoring of drug residues. The book provides a brief overview of how the FDA and USDA monitor drug residues in foods of animal origin and describes quality assurance programs initiated by the poultry, dairy, beef, and swine industries. Antibiotic resistance. The committee reports what is known about this controversial problem and its potential effect on human health. The volume also looks at how drug use may be minimized with new approaches in genetics, nutrition, and animal management.

No More Antibiotics

No More Antibiotics
Author: Mary Ann Block
Publsiher: Kensington Books
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 157566500X

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An insightful and essential guide illustrates how antibiotics can put the health of children at risk and provides ways to prevent ear and respiratory infection by identifying such factors as airborne allergies, food sensitivities, and poor nutrition, in order to strengthen the immune system. Reprint.

No More Amoxicillin

No More Amoxicillin
Author: Mary Ann Block
Publsiher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1998
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1575663163

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An insightful and essential guide illustrates how amoxicillin can put the health of children at risk and provides ways to prevent ear and respiratory infection by identifying such factors as airborne allergies, food sensitivities, and poor nutrition, in order to strengthen the immune system. Original.

WHO guidelines on use of medically important antimicrobials in food producing animals

WHO guidelines on use of medically important antimicrobials in food producing animals
Author: World Health Organization
Publsiher: World Health Organization
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-11-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9241550139

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WHO has launched new guidelines on use of medically important antimicrobials in food-producing animals, recommending that farmers and the food industry stop using antibiotics routinely to promote growth and prevent disease in healthy animals. These guidelines aim to help preserve the effectiveness of antibiotics that are important for human medicine by reducing their use in animals.

Improving Food Safety Through a One Health Approach

Improving Food Safety Through a One Health Approach
Author: Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Forum on Microbial Threats
Publsiher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2012-09-10
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780309259361

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Globalization of the food supply has created conditions favorable for the emergence, reemergence, and spread of food-borne pathogens-compounding the challenge of anticipating, detecting, and effectively responding to food-borne threats to health. In the United States, food-borne agents affect 1 out of 6 individuals and cause approximately 48 million illnesses, 128,000 hospitalizations, and 3,000 deaths each year. This figure likely represents just the tip of the iceberg, because it fails to account for the broad array of food-borne illnesses or for their wide-ranging repercussions for consumers, government, and the food industry-both domestically and internationally. A One Health approach to food safety may hold the promise of harnessing and integrating the expertise and resources from across the spectrum of multiple health domains including the human and veterinary medical and plant pathology communities with those of the wildlife and aquatic health and ecology communities. The IOM's Forum on Microbial Threats hosted a public workshop on December 13 and 14, 2011 that examined issues critical to the protection of the nation's food supply. The workshop explored existing knowledge and unanswered questions on the nature and extent of food-borne threats to health. Participants discussed the globalization of the U.S. food supply and the burden of illness associated with foodborne threats to health; considered the spectrum of food-borne threats as well as illustrative case studies; reviewed existing research, policies, and practices to prevent and mitigate foodborne threats; and, identified opportunities to reduce future threats to the nation's food supply through the use of a "One Health" approach to food safety. Improving Food Safety Through a One Health Approach: Workshop Summary covers the events of the workshop and explains the recommendations for future related workshops.

The Effects on Human Health of Subtherapeutic Use of Antimicrobials in Animal Feeds

The Effects on Human Health of Subtherapeutic Use of Antimicrobials in Animal Feeds
Author: National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Division of Medical Sciences,Commission on Life Sciences,Committee to Study the Human Health Effects of Subtherapeutic Antibiotic Use in Animal Feeds
Publsiher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 1980-02-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780309030441

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Pyrrhic Progress

Pyrrhic Progress
Author: Claas Kirchhelle
Publsiher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2020-01-17
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780813591476

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Pyrrhic Progress analyses over half a century of antibiotic use, regulation, and resistance in US and British food production. Mass-introduced after 1945, antibiotics helped revolutionize post-war agriculture. Food producers used antibiotics to prevent and treat disease, protect plants, preserve food, and promote animals' growth. Many soon became dependent on routine antibiotic use to sustain and increase production. The resulting growth of antibiotic infrastructures came at a price. Critics blamed antibiotics for leaving dangerous residues in food, enabling bad animal welfare, and selecting for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacteria, which could no longer be treated with antibiotics. Pyrrhic Progress reconstructs the complicated negotiations that accompanied this process of risk prioritization between consumers, farmers, and regulators on both sides of the Atlantic. Unsurprisingly, solutions differed: while Europeans implemented precautionary antibiotic restrictions to curb AMR, consumer concerns and cost-benefit assessments made US regulators focus on curbing drug residues in food. The result was a growing divergence of antibiotic stewardship and a rise of AMR. Kirchhelle's comprehensive analysis of evolving non-human antibiotic use and the historical complexities of antibiotic stewardship provides important insights for current debates on the global burden of AMR.

Antibiotics

Antibiotics
Author: David M. Shlaes
Publsiher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2010-09-02
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9789048190577

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Antibiotics are truly miracle drugs. As a class, they are one of the only ones that actually cure disease as opposed to most drugs that only help relieve symptoms or control disease. Since bacteria that cause serious disease in humans are becoming more and more resistant to the antibiotics we have today, and because they will ultimately become resistant to any antibiotic that we use for treatment or for anything else, we need a steady supply of new antibiotics active against any resistant bacteria that arise. However, the antibiotics marketplace is no longer attractive for large pharmaceutical companies, the costs of development are skyrocketing because of ever more stringent requirements by the regulatory agencies, and finding new antibiotics active against resistant strains is getting harder and harder. These forces are all combining to deny us these miracle drugs when we need them the most. I provide a number of possible paths to shelter from this perfect storm.