( mb an epidemiologist with Oz Food Net ...)Antibiotics Used In Food Animals Causes Antibiotic Resistance In People,Health

mb, an epidemiologist with Oz Food Net and Australia National University, said that there could be different causes that lead to bacterial antibiotic resistance, and use of antibiotics in food animals is only one of the multiple causes. However, she said that the evidence indicates that use of fluoroquinolones in food animals in other countries has increased the risk of resistance in [Campylobacter] isolates infecting humans. The researchers concluded that the low drug resistance they found was probably due Australia's policy of prohibiting the use of fluoroquinolones on animals.

Other industrialized nations have also realized the apparent benefits of restricting antimicrobial use in animals. It was found that both Sweden that had prohibited the use of fluoroquinolones for food animals in 1986 and Norway that had never licensed their use in food animals, had reported low trends like Australia's about fluoroquinolone resistant Campylobacter infecting humans. The United States seems to be taking a cue from other countries' success. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed banning fluoroquinolones in poultry in 2000, but were finally enacted in September 2005.

Reducing the use of antibiotics in food animals, along with the suggestions by the researchers regarding the sensible use of fluoroquinolones in clinical settings could be a steps in the right direction toward curbing harmful food borne bacterial drug resistance, noted many experts.


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