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Health risk from veterinary antimicrobial use in China's food animal production and its reduction
- Source :
- Environmental Pollution. 219:993-997
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2016.
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Abstract
- The overuse and misuse of veterinary drugs, particularly antimicrobials, in food animal production in China cause environmental pollution and wide food safety concerns, and pose public health risk with the selection of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) that can spread from animal populations to humans. Elevated abundance and diversity of antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) and resistant bacteria (including multi-drug resistant strains) in food-producing animals, food products of animal origin, microbiota of human gut, and environmental media impacted by intensive animal farming have been reported. To rein in drug use in food animal production and protect public health, the government made a total of 227 veterinary drugs, including 150 antimicrobial products, available only by prescription from licensed veterinarians for curing, controlling, and preventing animal diseases in March 2014. So far the regulatory ban on non-therapeutic use has failed to bring major changes to the long-standing practice of drug overuse and misuse in animal husbandry and aquaculture, and significant improvement in its implementation and enforcement is necessary. A range of measures, including improving access to veterinary services, strengthening supervision on veterinary drug production and distribution, increasing research and development efforts, and enhancing animal health management, are recommended to facilitate transition toward rational use of veterinary drugs, particularly antimicrobials, and to reduce the public health risk arising from AMR development in animal agriculture.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
China
Intensive animal farming
medicine.medical_specialty
Veterinary medicine
Veterinary Drugs
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
030106 microbiology
Environmental pollution
010501 environmental sciences
Toxicology
01 natural sciences
Animal Diseases
03 medical and health sciences
Antibiotic resistance
Anti-Infective Agents
Risk Factors
Animals
Humans
Medicine
Veterinary drug
Animal Husbandry
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
business.industry
Public health
Drug Resistance, Microbial
General Medicine
Animal husbandry
Food safety
Pollution
Biotechnology
Public Health
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 02697491
- Volume :
- 219
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Environmental Pollution
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fc6056d79054fcf88af8a1f59146f853