Antibiotic Use in Food Animals: Controlling the Human Health Impact
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Antibiotic use in food animals: controlling the human health impact.
Resistance to antimicrobial drugs has compromised control of many bacterial pathogens. For foodborne pathogens, the most likely source of resistance is use of antimicrobials in food-producing animals. To control the human health impact from use of antimicrobials in animals, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced plans to assess the microbial safety of all antimicrobials ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1060-3271,1944-7922
DOI: 10.1093/jaoac/83.2.245