Reports on the petition endorsed by a coalition of scientists and health and consumer groups to the United States Food and Drug Administration that seek to ban the use of certain antibiotics ...
Singapore start-up Peptobiotics has raised US$6.2M in Series A funding to commercialise its antimicrobial peptide technology as it seeks to replace the use of antibiotics, firstly in aquaculture, and in the future in livestock. Anatomy of a fall in global feed production 03-Apr-2024 By Jane...
Three years ago, I wrote about antibiotic use in raising livestock, which was a problem — and still is, although much progress has been made. But when someone recently said to me, “I switched to almond milk because I heard that dairy milk contains antibiotics,” I realized there’s ...
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) technical report says the practice of adding antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs to the feed of healthy livestock, commonly done to promote growth and prevent disease among animals in crowded conditions, often leaves the drugs ineffective when they're ne...
Use of antibiotics in livestock raising. Antibiotics are used to treat erysipelas and dysentery of swine, anthrax, and strangles of horses, pullorum disease of poultry, actinomycosis, bronchial pneumonia, gastrointestinal diseases of young animals, sepsis, metritis, vaginitis, and many other diseases. ...
We hypothesised that when used in combination, BSFL full-fat meal and multi-strain probiotics were more likely to enhance the growth performance and gut health of weaned pigs than in-feed antibiotics. This would help mitigate the problem of antimicrobial resistance due to the escalating use of ...
FDA restricts certain antibiotics in livestock WHO: Antibiotic overuse so prevalent scraped knee could be deadly It's a decades-old practice, in which antibiotics are mixed with animal feed to help livestock, pigs and chickens put on weight and stay healthy in crowded barns. Scientists have warne...
With the introduction of intensive husbandry systems the increased exposure of livestock to infectious diseases meant that the use of antibiotics was required to maintain animal health and productivity. As new husbandry techniques in livestock production systems improve the health and well being of livest...
The discovery of the growth promoting property of antibiotics led to their use as antibiotic feed additives (AFAs) in animal feed at sub-therapeutic doses. Although this has been beneficial for animal health and productivity, it has been, essentially, a double-edged sword. The continued and non...
The FDA approved the use of antibiotics in livestock in the 1950s after studies showed that animals that got the drugs in their feed put on more weight in less time than animals on a traditional diet. For example, pigs that got an antibiotic were shown to need 10 to 15 percent less fee...