Broadcast version by Roz Brown for New Mexico News Connection reporting for the Sentient-Public News Service Collaboration It's a well-known fact that factory farms rely on antibiotics to treat ...

Consider where antibiotics are most used: A 2015 study (Van Boeckel et al.) indicated that, worldwide, antibiotics are more likely to be administered to farm animals than to humans. In the United ...

Another example is giving antibiotics to healthy animals to promote their growth and prevent disease. Antibiotic use in farm animals allows the resistant bacteria to thrive within the animals, and ...

But since approximately 80 percent of all antibiotics sold in the U.S. are used by the meat and poultry industry to make animals grow faster or to prevent disease in crowded and unsanitary ...

Efforts in veterinary medicine to reduce the use of antibiotics to only those necessary can help animals of all species, including the human population. Pet owners’ awareness regarding the ...

Antibiotics are often overprescribed by physicians and veterinarians and overused by the public. Where they can be bought for human or animal use without a prescription, the emergence and spread ...

The paper, by T.P. Van Boeckel at ETH Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland, and colleagues was titled, "Reducing global antimicrobial use in food animals." ...

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) points to a 55% drop in antibiotic use in food-producing animals since 2014. and an 83% decrease in the use of antibiotics most ...

Böttcher adds: "This is one of the reasons why gonococcal strains have recently emerged that are resistant to all antibiotics currently in use -- such superbugs can ... analyses as well as complex ...

St. Anthony-based Fischer Farms Natural Foods announced its recent designation as the first beef cattle farm in the United States to receive the Certified Responsible Antibiotic Use (CRAU) ...

“It could occur in a hospital from overprescribing and use of antibiotics, it could be also occurring from usage in agriculture from producing animals, keeping them safe and healthy, so that we ...