According to the World Health Organization, the widespread use if antimicrobials in food animal production is cause for concern regarding public health. Antimicrobials are used for mass treatment against infectious diseases or continuously in feed at very low doses (parts per million) for growth promotion, particularly in pig and poultry production.
Antimicrobials are used to improve feed conversion and reduce waste product output from intensive livestock production. Because of the density and confinement of the animals in Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) there is great risk for communicable diseases to pass quickly between the animals. The vast number of animals, and the rivers of waste they produce and remain exposed to, diminishes their resistance to sickness posing yet another threat to the humans and animals that eat them.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced recently they are going to protect an important class of antimicrobial drugs for treating human illness by prohibiting certain uses in food-producing animals. Specifically, “extralabel” or unapproved uses of the cephalosporin class of antimicrobial drugs in cattle, swine, chickens and turkeys will be prohibited; effective April 5, 2012.
Here are a few reasons the new order falls short of true protection:
- The cephalosporin class is merely a fraction of the antimicrobials used in the process of producing animals for food; prohibiting its use will have little overall effect.
- Not effected by the new order are minor species of food-producing animals such as ducks or rabbits.
- Finally, “Veterinarians may also use or prescribe cephalosporins for extralabel uses”.
I’m banking producers in the food-animal industry will have very little trouble finding a veterinarian to help them if they can’t work around the very soft “prohibitions”.
Let’s take out all the Artificial Colors and Flavors that are a danger to us all,
not to think about all the Dangerous Food Preservatives. The health risks that we
all pay should be enough to teach all Leaders to stop it. You want lower health
cost start with the number one cause of 90% of the problems chemical ingredients
drugs. Let our children eat good food not the man made chemical ingredients and
drugs found in many processed foods.
Take soda pop out of all schools and put back in Nutrition Whole Milk. 90% of all
the Olympic Athletes gold medalists drink Whole MILK.
i have been drinking half and half milk cream since 1964 and can brake three
2 by 4′s in less than a second and a half. i have good strong bones thanks to milk
and GOD.
USA Leaders others countries started to put a end to chemical ingredients and drugs
a while ago what are we waiting for the Drug CEO’s and Drug Cartels to approve it?
The Lord’s Little Helper
Paul Felix Schott
Global Health Care Company Abbott Laboratories Inc. has pleaded guilty and agreed to pay $1.5 billion to resolve its criminal and civil liability arising from the company’s unlawful promotion of the prescription drug Depakote for uses not approved as safe and effective by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Justice Department announced today. The resolution – the second largest payment by a drug company – includes a criminal fine and forfeiture totaling $700 million and civil settlements with the federal government and the states totaling $800 million. Abbott also will be subject to court-supervised probation and reporting obligations for Abbott’s CEO and Board of Directors.
Abbott Labs to Pay $1.5 Billion to Resolve Criminal & Civil Investigations of Off-label Promotion of Depakote
05/07/2012 01:08 PM EDT