Friday, October 13, 2006
"Ban antibiotic growth promoters!"
The untold story behind the emergence of deadly food poisoning of spinach, salad, sprouts and more, is the agribusiness use of antibiotics solely to fatten animals.
Today, the spinach fatalities join the list:
E. coli strain traced to ranch near spinach fields
The real story can be found at EurekaAlert, (or two studies in the Nov. 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases):
Studies identify food sources of disease and drug resistance
The industrial use of antibiotics in animals for meat production has created unprecedentedly deadly, highly drug resistant strains of bacteria which can kill in small amounts. The quote that's the title of this post comes from Niels Frimodt-Møller, MD, DMSc, and Annette M. Hammerum, PhD, MSc, of the Danish National Center for Antimicrobials and Infection Control, in an editorial in the same issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases
URL of this post:
http://confusioncomplete.blogspot.com/2006/10/ban-antibiotic-growth-promoters.html
Today, the spinach fatalities join the list:
E. coli strain traced to ranch near spinach fields
The real story can be found at EurekaAlert, (or two studies in the Nov. 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases):
Studies identify food sources of disease and drug resistance
The industrial use of antibiotics in animals for meat production has created unprecedentedly deadly, highly drug resistant strains of bacteria which can kill in small amounts. The quote that's the title of this post comes from Niels Frimodt-Møller, MD, DMSc, and Annette M. Hammerum, PhD, MSc, of the Danish National Center for Antimicrobials and Infection Control, in an editorial in the same issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases
URL of this post:
http://confusioncomplete.blogspot.com/2006/10/ban-antibiotic-growth-promoters.html
