EFSA – BACTERIA
July 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority wants tougher assessments into using antibiotics in livestock feed, saying they should evaluate the difference between a bacteria's natural resistance to a drug and artificial resistance, caused by genetic mutation. Where resistance has been acquired bacteria usually killed by an antibiotic, there is more risk of eroding a drug's human effectiveness. * http://www.efsa.eu.int/science/feedap/feedap_opinions/993/feedap_op_ej223_antibiotics_en1.pdf
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority wants tougher assessments into using antibiotics in livestock feed, saying they should evaluate the difference between a bacteria's natural resistance to a drug and artificial resistance, caused by genetic mutation. Where resistance has been acquired bacteria usually killed by an antibiotic, there is more risk of eroding a drug's human effectiveness. * http://www.efsa.eu.int/science/feedap/feedap_opinions/993/feedap_op_ej223_antibiotics_en1.pdf
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