April 10, 2012

Antibiotics that were banned in the US are still in use there

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and Arizona State University has found evidence, that some antibiotics that were previously banned by the US government for poultry production are still in use. The evidence found suggest that fluoroquinolones, that was banned  has been detected in eight out of 12 samples of feather meal in the multi-state study.

In a companion study, researchers found inorganic arsenic in feather meal used in retail fertilisers. “The discovery of certain antibiotics in feather meal strongly suggests the continued use of these drugs despite the ban put in place in 2005 by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA),” said David Love, lead author of the report and an assistant scientist at the Centre for a Liveable Future. “The public health community has long been frustrated with the unwillingness of FDA to effectively address what antibiotics are fed to food animals.” Read more ...

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