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A CDC infographic on how antibiotic-resistant bacteria have the potential to spread from farm animals. Antibiotic use in livestock is the use of antibiotics for any purpose in the husbandry of livestock, which includes treatment when ill (therapeutic), treatment of a group of animals when at least one is diagnosed with clinical infection (metaphylaxis [1]), and preventative treatment ...
Consumer, food safety and environmental groups have long warned that the overuse of antibiotics in livestock farming can contribute to human antibiotic resistance. The World Health Organization in ...
Sales of antibiotics for food-producing animals are reducing in the UK, but campaigners say further reductions and legislation are needed. Zac Goldsmith calls for end to delay in banning overuse ...
Approved uses included production (growth enhancement), treatment, control, or prevention of animal disease. Antibiotics were also available for purchase over the counter at that time. [citation needed] 1970 – FDA task force publication proposes limitations of utilizing antibiotics in livestock feed that are also used in humans. [citation needed]
The overuse of fluoroquinolone and other antibiotics fuels antibiotic resistance in bacteria, which can inhibit the treatment of antibiotic-resistant infections. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] [ 29 ] Their excessive use in children with otitis media has given rise to a breed of bacteria resistant to antibiotics entirely. [ 30 ]
The Scarecrow program covered issues in industrial food production that included the overuse of antibiotics in livestock farming. The "Farmed and Dangerous" series is an extension of that culture ...
This is a non-therapeutic use of antibiotics. Such antibiotic use is thought to allow animals to grow faster and bigger, increasing the CAFO's output. Regardless, the World Health Organization has recommended that the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in animal husbandry be reevaluated, as such antibiotic overuse breeds antibiotic-resistant ...
A reviewer summarized the book's coverage as descriptions of "the indiscriminate use of ""subtherapeutic"" antibiotics in animal feeds (probably contributing to the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in both human and animal hosts); the use of diethylstilbestrol and other hormones; and (more briefly) the USDA meat-inspection programs--plus ...