Antibiotic use in swine: Antibiotic resistance risk, regulation, veterinary oversight, FDA guidance, and 'Healthy animals make safer food'

摘要

There are many pressures on livestock production today. Many of those pressures are not the normal economic and resource challenges faced by all businesses, but additional political messages that leave a farmer and their veterinarian wondering, "Why am I the villain, when I am just trying to feed people as efficiently as possible?" Or maybe you are wondering, "Why is the use of medicine (e.g. antimicrobials) to prevent and relieve animal suffering now considered an antisocial behavior?" In this paperwe will not delve into all the "whys" of this political pressure, other than to say that much of the concern about public health risk from antimicrobials use is driven by values and feelings of an extreme political agenda.