Overuse of antibiotics in American Animal Husbandry
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Last Update: 2001-11-02
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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Introduction: three new research reports from the U.S Department of health show that antibiotics fed to animals for food may affect human health Research shows that poultry and beef and mutton on supermarket shelves in the United States contain a considerable amount of drug-resistant bacteria These bacteria may stay in human stomach for a long time, which will affect human health These antibiotics were originally used to treat sick animals, but in the United States they were used to improve the nutritional benefits of feed and increase the growth rate of animals U.S public health officials conducted a sample survey of chicken sold in supermarkets in Oregon, Georgia, Maryland and Minnesota, and found that 17% of the chicken contained enterococci that were resistant to synthetic antibiotics In addition, in 200 samples of beef, pork, chicken and turkey meat from Washington, D.C., it was found that 20 samples of meat contained multiple Salmonella species, and most Salmonella species were resistant to at least one antibiotic.
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