Antibiotic use in animal agriculture

Antibiotic Use in Food-Animal Production in Denmark

Modern food animal production depends in large part on the use of antibiotics for disease control and growth promotion. This practice has left many in Denmark concerned about its potential effect on the efficacy of these important drugs. In 1969, the Swann committee recommended that those antibiotics used for the treatment of infections in animals and humans not be used as growth promoters, a p...

Ominous projections for global antibiotic use in food-animal production.

Lance B. Price, Benjamin J. Koch, and Bruce A. Hungate Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052; Division of Pathogen Genomics, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, AZ 86001; Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011; and Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona U...

Environmental Impacts of Antibiotic Use in the Animal Production Industry

International Animal Agriculture

Iodine (I) is an essential element for efficient dairy cow metabolism. Iodine status is however not well known on farms. The objective was to measure milk and plasma I concentrations in a selected group of commercial dairy herds in central Iranian province of Isfahan. During summer of 1999 and winter of 2000, 11 dairy farms were randomly chosen and a minimum of 10 cows were sampled from each fa...

Transgenesis in Animal Agriculture: Addressing Animal Health and Welfare Concerns

The US Food and Drug Administration’s final Guidance for Industry on the regulation of transgenesis in animal agriculture has paved the way for the commercialization of genetically engineered (GE) farm animals. The productionrelated diseases associated with extant breeding technologies are reviewed, as well as the predictable welfare consequences of continued emphasis on prolificacy at the pote...