Warning over wider global health impacts after findings reveal thousands of tonnes of colostin - the 'antibiotic of last resort' - are being shipped to India's farmsChickens raised in India for food have been dosed with some of the strongest antibiotics known to medicine, in practices that could have repercussions throughout the world.Thousands of tonnes of an "antibiotic of last resort" - only used in the most extreme cases of sickness - are shipped to India each year to be used, without medical supervision, on animals that may not require the drugs but are being dosed with them nevertheless to promote the growth of healthy animals. Continue reading...
India's farmed chickens dosed with world's strongest antibiotics, study finds
1. února 2018 12:00
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Zdroj: The Guardian