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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Washington, D.C. :
National Academy Press,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- Drugs used in food animals : background and perspectives
- Food-animal production practices and drug use
- Benefits and risks to human health
- Drug development, government approval, and the regulatory process
- Drug residues and microbial contamination in food
- Issues specific to antibiotics
- Costs of eliminating subtherapeutic use of antibiotics
- Approaches to minimizing antibiotic use in food-animal production.