Report: Animal antibiotics pose human health risk - Rawan For Media Artistic and Production
The Cure: Antibiotic resistance - The end of modern medicine?
"We are suggesting a 10-year timetable for introducing a global limit," said O'Neill.
"One of the reasons we say that is our awareness and sympathy for the challenges in the emerging world."
The
report also recommends limits to stop the release of active
pharmaceutical ingredients during the manufacturing of antibiotics, and
improved surveillance systems to monitor the use of the drugs.
"Even
the best-practising countries suffer the consequences of growing
resistance because of the bad behaviour of elsewhere. It's important
that we all do the right thing," O'Neill said.
Source: Al Jazeera
The
misuse and over-use of antibiotics on farm animals is increasing the
problem of antimicrobial resistance, or superbugs, in humans, a report
prepared for the UK government has warned.
The
report's authors looked at the results of 139 studies into the use of
antibiotics in agriculture and found a link between the routine feeding
of antibiotics to animals and the growing number of cases of
antibiotic-resistant bacteria threatening human health and sometimes
leaving doctors with no way to treat patients.
The report says the risks associated with the high use of antimicrobials in animal populations are threefold.
Antibiotic use on Kenyan farms raising resistance concerns
"Firstly,
it presents the risk that drug-resistant strains are passed on through
direct contact between humans and animals (notably farmers)," the report
says.
"Secondly,
these drug-resistant strains have the potential to be passed on to
humans more generally through the food chain, ie, when consumers prepare
or eat the meat itself.
"Finally, there is a further indirect threat to human health as result of animal excretion."
Jim
O'Neill, the chairman of the UK's Review on Antimicrobial Resistance,
told Al Jazeera on Tuesday that the underlying problem is that "all
seven billion humans take too many antibiotics".
"We
treat them like sweets and the problem is compounded in some parts of
the world, made even worse by the same behaviour with animals," he said.
The
report reveals that in many countries more drugs are given to animals
than to humans and many farm animals are fed the antibiotics in an
"excessive and inappropriate" way, often routinely to boost their
growth.
"Misuse in animals is probably worse than in humans," O'Neill said.
"We
need much more stringent measures in some key parts of the world,
notably the United States, [and] also in many parts of the developing
world, especially the large populated countries such as China and
India."
The
report calls for a global target to reduce the use of antibiotics in
food production, alongside new controls over which antibiotics should be
used in both animals and humans.
misuse and over-use of antibiotics on farm animals is increasing the
problem of antimicrobial resistance, or superbugs, in humans, a report
prepared for the UK government has warned.
The
report's authors looked at the results of 139 studies into the use of
antibiotics in agriculture and found a link between the routine feeding
of antibiotics to animals and the growing number of cases of
antibiotic-resistant bacteria threatening human health and sometimes
leaving doctors with no way to treat patients.
The report says the risks associated with the high use of antimicrobials in animal populations are threefold.
Antibiotic use on Kenyan farms raising resistance concerns
"Firstly,
it presents the risk that drug-resistant strains are passed on through
direct contact between humans and animals (notably farmers)," the report
says.
"Secondly,
these drug-resistant strains have the potential to be passed on to
humans more generally through the food chain, ie, when consumers prepare
or eat the meat itself.
"Finally, there is a further indirect threat to human health as result of animal excretion."
Jim
O'Neill, the chairman of the UK's Review on Antimicrobial Resistance,
told Al Jazeera on Tuesday that the underlying problem is that "all
seven billion humans take too many antibiotics".
"We
treat them like sweets and the problem is compounded in some parts of
the world, made even worse by the same behaviour with animals," he said.
The
report reveals that in many countries more drugs are given to animals
than to humans and many farm animals are fed the antibiotics in an
"excessive and inappropriate" way, often routinely to boost their
growth.
"Misuse in animals is probably worse than in humans," O'Neill said.
"We
need much more stringent measures in some key parts of the world,
notably the United States, [and] also in many parts of the developing
world, especially the large populated countries such as China and
India."
The
report calls for a global target to reduce the use of antibiotics in
food production, alongside new controls over which antibiotics should be
used in both animals and humans.
The Cure: Antibiotic resistance - The end of modern medicine?
"We are suggesting a 10-year timetable for introducing a global limit," said O'Neill.
"One of the reasons we say that is our awareness and sympathy for the challenges in the emerging world."
The
report also recommends limits to stop the release of active
pharmaceutical ingredients during the manufacturing of antibiotics, and
improved surveillance systems to monitor the use of the drugs.
"Even
the best-practising countries suffer the consequences of growing
resistance because of the bad behaviour of elsewhere. It's important
that we all do the right thing," O'Neill said.
Source: Al Jazeera
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