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Antibiotics In Food Animals: The Convergence Of Animal And Public Health, Science, Policy, Politics And The Law, Nancy Halpern
Antibiotics In Food Animals: The Convergence Of Animal And Public Health, Science, Policy, Politics And The Law, Nancy Halpern
Nancy E Halpern D.V.M.
ANTIBIOTICS IN FOOD ANIMALS: THE CONVERGENCE OF ANIMAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH, SCIENCE, POLICY, POLITICS AND THE LAW
BY NANCY E HALPERN, DVM
MAY 3, 2009
ABSTRACT
The use of antibiotics in food animals, to prevent and/or control disease in these animals, has been a subject of discussion between the medical and veterinary and animal agricultural sectors and related national and international government entities for decades, because of concerns about the resulting increase in antibiotic resistance such practices facilitate. The underlying premise is that use of antibiotics in food animals leads to resistance of the bacteria consumed by humans, and reducing …