The use of drugs in food animals : benefits and risks / Committee on Drug Use in Food Animals, Panel on Animal Health, Food Safety, and Public Health, Board on Agriculture, National Research Council.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Agriculture. Panel on Animal Health, Food Safety, and Public Health. Committee on Drug Use in Food Animals.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Veterinary drugs.

Antibiotics in veterinary medicine.

Food animals--Diseases--Chemotherapy.

Food animals.

Veterinary drug residues.

Food of animal origin--Contamination.

Food of animal origin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 253 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The use of drugs in food animal production has resulted in benefits throughout the food industry; however, their use has also raised public health safety concerns. The Use of Drugs in Food Animals provides an overview of why and how drugs are used in the major food-producing animal industries-poultry, dairy, beef, swine, and aquaculture. The volume discusses the prevalence of human pathogens in foods of animal origin. It also addresses the transfer of resistance in animal microbes to human pathogens and the resulting risk of human disease. The committee offers analysis and insight into these areas: Monitoring of drug residues. The book provides a brief overview of how the FDA and USDA monitor drug residues in foods of animal origin and describes quality assurance programs initiated by the poultry, dairy, beef, and swine industries. Antibiotic resistance. The committee reports what is known about this controversial problem and its potential effect on human health. The volume also looks at how drug use may be minimized with new approaches in genetics, nutrition, and animal management.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Tables and Figures""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Drugs Used in Food Animals: Background and Perspectives""; ""2 Food-Animal Production Practices and Drug Use""; ""3 Benefits and Risks to Human Health""; ""4 Drug Development, Government Approval, and the Regulatory Process""; ""5 Drug Residues and Microbial Contamination in Food: Monitoring and Enforcement""; ""6 Issues Specific to Antibiotics""; ""7 Costs of Eliminating Subtherapeutic Use of Antibiotics""; ""8 Approaches to Minimizing Antibiotic Use in Food-Animal Production""""References""; ""About the Authors""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-234) and index.

ISBN:

9780309175777

0309175771

9780309525367

0309525365

9780585038100

0585038104

OCLC:

923259384