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Article: Data Demonstrate Little to No Evidence That Antibiotic Use in Food Animals Presents Any Significant Risk to Human Health; - New Publication Finds Antibiotic Bans not Based on Risk Assessment May Be More Harmful to Human and Animal Health -.
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- January 19, 2004
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- A new peer-reviewed article raises concern that the banning of antibiotics in food animals may harm both human and animal health. The report, published this month in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, found there is little to no scientific evidence to suggest that the use of antibiotics in food animals negatively impacts human health.
"The scientific evidence shows that the actual risk of transfer of antibiotic resistant organisms from animals to humans caused by the use of antibiotics in food animals is extremely small and in some cases zero," said Ian Phillips, M.D., principal author and Emeritus Professor of ...