Nutrition and Multiresistance Alert

In the last 70 years, the advent of antibiotics radically changed human life, avoiding epidemic infections caused by microbial agents on mankind and loss of enormous quantity of food. Nowadays, most of antibiotics are used in intensive livestock. Furthermore, the contamination of food and spoilage by microorganisms is a major concern to consumers, government authorities and food industries. Therefore, antibiotics actually play a role of crucial importance for future production of food. Bacteria efficiently counteracted with multiresistance and the Antibiotic Era risks a rapid decline. It is time to explore new solutions, like the use of natural substances, novel mechanisms of action and multi-components drugs, against microorganisms attacks. Urgently, new antimicrobial agents areneeded for animal and livestock wellbeing and nutrition, before the ban of actual products, due to the microbial multidrug resistance and habitat damages. In addition, animal products are the main pathogenic and technological microorganisms target. This review reports about the potential utilization of selected natural products against resistant strains of microorganisms.