The use of drugs in food animals : benefits and risks / Committee on Drug Use in Food Animals, Panel on Animal Health, Food Safety, and Public Health, Board on Agriculture, National Research Council, Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine.
" ... Provides an overview of why and how drugs are used in the major food-producing animal industries--poultry, dairy, beef, swine, and aquaculture. The volume discusses the prevalence of human pathogens in foods of animal origin. It also addresses the transfer of resistance in animal microbes...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
National Academy Press,
1999.
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| Summary: | " ... Provides an overview of why and how drugs are used in the major food-producing animal industries--poultry, dairy, beef, swine, and aquaculture. The volume discusses the prevalence of human pathogens in foods of animal origin. It also addresses the transfer of resistance in animal microbes to human pathogens and the resulting risk of human disease."--Catalog description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 253 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-234) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585038104 9780585038100 9780309054348 0309054346 |