Saturday, 14 April 2012

FDA Halting Antibiotic Overuse Important to Animals, Humans Alike

<p>COMMENTARY | Since a 1970s, physicians and other scientists have been increasingly endangered with a skyrocketing rates of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. One specific “superbug,” famous as <span>methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus</span>, or <span>MRSA</span>, is quite destructive and dangerous, and has been <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/meat-industry-spreads-mrsa-vegetarian-now-154600574.html">spreading rapidly</a> in <span>animal factory</span> farms. With some-more than 80 percent of a nation’s antibiotics finale adult in animal feed, we are now in obligatory need of interventions to hindrance a arise of an unstoppable pandemic.
</p>

<p>
The <span>Food and Drug Administration</span> has finally taken stairs to case a nonessential use of antibiotics in livestock, according to a new <a href="http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm299802.htm">press release</a>. A...

0 comments

Post a Comment