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Consider where antibiotics are most used: A 2015 study (Van Boeckel et al.) indicated that, worldwide, antibiotics are more likely to be administered to farm animals than to humans. In the United ...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) intends to introduce a companion bill in the Senate. At present, an estimated 80 percent of all antibiotics in this country are used “sub-therapeutically” to facilitate ...

The animals we eat consume more than 60% of the world’s antibiotics - but not always because they are sick. This week, the Food Chain explores the controversy over the use of antibiotics in ...

Citing a potential threat to public health, the United States Food and Drug Administration is taking steps toward phasing out the use of some antibiotics in animals processed for meat. In the US ...

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Meat traders carry meat for sale in a butchery in Nakuru town on 01-02-2015, due to the ongoing drought in most parts of the country the price of cows has gone down as farmers rush to sell their ...

Another example is giving antibiotics to healthy animals to promote their growth and prevent disease. Antibiotic use in farm animals allows the resistant bacteria to thrive within the animals, and ...

Main benefits: Reducing antibiotic use in animals benefits public health. However, on its own, this claim isn't adequately verified. Limitations: Weak verification requirements. • No standard ...

Cases of the STD have shot up from 6,862 in 2002 to 203,500 in 2022 This has forced doctors to ration injectable penicillin, the first line of treatment READ MORE: America's surprising new hotspot ...

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) points to a 55% drop in antibiotic use in food-producing animals since 2014. and an 83% decrease in the use of antibiotics most ...