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 ...

Rather than concentrate on the use of antibiotics, the research advocated alternative growth promotion methods, such as adding digestive enzymes and probiotics to animal feed and improving ...

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 ...

The use of antimicrobial agents in food animals can select for resistant bacterial pathogens that may be transmitted to humans via the commercial meat supply. In the USA, the FDA's Center for ...

This alignment will enable comparison of antibiotic use between the human and animal sector in the future.

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 ...

Undetected antimicrobial resistance genes can spread through food animals, contaminated food products ... promote responsible antimicrobial use and drive the development of sustainable alternatives.