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Monday, July 14, 2014
Health Canada restricts use of antibiotics for growth in livestock
In an effort to curb drug-resistant superbugs, Health Canada is restricting the use of antibiotics in livestock. Producers will no longer be allowed to continuously feed animals low-level doses as a way to promote growth. Dr.
Trisha Dowling, a pharmacologist with the Western College of Veterinary
Medicine, says penicillin and tetracycline have long been fed to
livestock in order to reduce the workload of animals' immune systems,
thereby causing them to grow faster using less feed. She says in
many cases, products specifically marketed as growth-promotants are
older drugs that have fallen out of use in humans as bacteria have
developed resistance. The rules do still allow in-feed antibiotics as a preventative measure against disease...more
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How will this be enforced ?. Sounds like a public relations thing to me.
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