Sunday, December 12, 2010

Beware of Antibiotics in Meat!

Beware of Antibiotics in Meat!
Beware of Antibiotics in Meat! - The entry of residues antiobiotika into the body through the consumption of poultry meat have to watch out for, because it can increase the odds of developing bacteria that are resistant to drugs.
The warning was revealed by some experts in China following antiobiotika usage trends in growing cattle. The report mentions, almost half of the antibiotics produced in the Bamboo Curtain country was given to livestock rather than be used to control the disease in humans.

Around 210,000 tons of antibiotics produced in China each year, approximately 97,000 tons of which ended in the animal body, said Xiao Yonghong, a professor from the Institute of Clinical Pharmacology of Peking University, as reported by the newspaper People's Daily.

Research was initiated by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences found that more than 50 percent of farms in Shandong Province and Liaoning are always adding antibiotics to feed animals raised.

"The use of antibiotics has become commonplace now, which leads to increased animal mortality rate due to the level of immunity they become depressed. In addition, antibiotics are often detrimental to one's health after a drunk," said Qi Guanghai, head of research at China Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

"Attention must be given to the problem of antibiotic intake through daily food consumption, because it can increase the likelihood of developing resistant bacteria in the human body," said Huang Liuyu, director of the Institute for Disease Prevention and Control of the People's Liberation Army.

One example is as heavy as 650-gram baby, born prematurely in Guangzhou. As reported in the newspaper People's Daily, the baby is suffering from seven types of antibiotic resistance, which is allegedly the result of his mother every day eating habits of meat and eggs that contain residues or residues of antibiotics.

Last month, on the plains of China also reported the first case of bacterial NDM-1, which is resistant to almost all types of antibiotics.

With the facts about the rising cases of drug resistance were detected in China and the other hemisphere, Huang urged the authorities should give more attention to this problem, and perform well on the regulation of this sector.

"In Europe, antibiotics banned for adding to food animals since many years and the same restrictions will be implemented in South Korea," said Tu Yan, a researcher from Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

China to introduce antibiotics into the livestock industry, in efforts to prevent disease in the era of the 1990s. Regulation of additional drugs was published by China in 2002, and more focus on the use of appropriate doses of different types of antibiotics in livestock feed. But these regulations do not regulate the supervision of sales and excessive use of antibiotics.

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