Assessing Risks to Human Health from Antibiotic Use in Food Animals
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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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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Microbe Magazine
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1558-7452,1558-7460
DOI: 10.1128/microbe.1.115.1