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5. medicine & health: 2. drugs: Drugs: Antibiotic:
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The most advanced methods of mass production employ harmful antibiotics and genetically modified feed in unnaturally crowded ponds on land.
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just as scientists did with penicillin. Several discoveries have already been made with hookworms such as a protein that inhibits white blood cell activity and another with anticoagulant properties.
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So the only guaranteed treatment for urinary tract infections is antibiotics. With the risk of increased antibiotic resistance, an alternative treatment for such everyday infections would be welcome.
But for the moment, it's impossible to say whether cranberry juice is it. If you would like to comment on this article
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and fed antibiotics before they are slaughtered in facilities that process up to 3, 000 animals a day. oethere are farming operations that are really big
or Food Lion or from some anonymous slaughterhouse that stuffed it full of antibiotics so it wouldnt get sick,
and fed antibiotics before they are slaughtered in facilities that process up to 3, 000 animals a day. oethere are farming operations that are really big
or Food Lion or from some anonymous slaughterhouse that stuffed it full of antibiotics so it wouldnt get sick,
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Just as the heavy use of antibiotics contributed to the rise of drug-resistant supergerms American farmers near-ubiquitous use of the weedkiller Roundup has led to the rapid growth of tenacious new superweeds.
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Were living with the legacy of the past#the inappropriate use of antibiotics through buying them on the internet
to protect our honeybees and end the routine use of antibiotics on farms. LINK Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati l
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A cocktail of up to 20 painkillers, antibiotics and growth hormones, can be found in a glass of milk,
along with the antibiotic triclosan and some hormones. The researchers say their new 30-minute test is the most sensitive of its kind.
The effects of antibiotics, blood pressure drugs and cholesterol-lowering drugs on wildlife are also being studied around the world.
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#Dairy industry Fights FDAÂ##s Proposed New Drug Testing for Milk How could there possibly be antibiotics in my milk?
The dairy industry is butting heads with the FDA over the agencys plan to increase testing for antibiotics in milk.
Food safety advocates are concerned about overuse of drugs in dairy cows (and increased antibiotic resistance in humans),
It said it would test for about two dozen antibiotics beyond the six that are tested typically for.
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#Chicken farms turn to oregano as a substitute for antibiotics Chickens at Bell & Evans eat feed laced with oregano oil.
and poultry producers without resorting to antibiotics, which some experts say can be detrimental to the humans who eat the meat.
have long been free of antibiotics, contributing to the company s financial success as consumers have demanded purer foods.
#Nonetheless, Mr. Gavura said he would welcome a reduction in the use of antibiotics in animals.
Data on sales of antibiotic-free meat is hard to come by, but the sales are a tiny fraction of the overall meat market.
which by law must be raised without antibiotics, totaled $538 million in 2011, according to the Organic Trade Association.
as well as some restaurant chains, complain that they cannot get enough antibiotic-free meat. Noodles & Company, a fast-growing chain of more than 300 restaurants, recently added antibiotic-free pork to the choices of ingredients that customers can add to their made-to-order pastas.
It ensured its supply by ordering cuts of meat that were not in relatively high demand
In a nationwide telephone survey of 1, 000 adults in March, more than 60 percent told the Consumer Reports National Research center that they would be willing to pay at least 5 cents a pound more for meat raised without antibiotics.
obesity and glutenallergies, were contributing to the demand for antibiotic-free meat. There is growing concern among health care experts and policy makers about antibiotic resistance and the rise of superbugs,
#bacteria that are impervious to one or more antibiotics. Those bacteria can be passed on to consumers,
who eat meat infected with them and then cannot be treated. In November, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and 25 national health organizations and advocacy groups issued a statement on antibiotics that
among other things, called for limiting the use of medically important human antibiotics in food animals#and supporting the use of such antibiotics in animals only for those uses that are considered necessary for assuring animal health.#
#In 2011, there were several prominent recalls involving bacterial strains that are resistant to antibiotics, including more than 60 million pounds of ground beef contaminated withsalmonella Typhimurium
and about 36 million pounds of ground turkey spoiled with salmonella Heidelberg. Consumer Reports released a study last month that found the bacteria Yersinia enterocolitica in 69 percent of 198 pork chop
Some of the bacteria were resistant to one or more antibiotics. Analysis of Food and Drug Administration data by the Center for Science in the Public interest found that 80 percent of all antibiotics sold in the United states are used in animals.
The majority of those antibiotics are used to spur growth or prevent infections from spreading in the crowded conditions in
which most animal production takes place today. The European union has banned the use of antibiotics to accelerate growth,
and the European parliament is pushing to end their use as tools to prevent disease as well. The oregano oil product Mr. Sechler uses, By-O-Reg Plus, is made by a Dutch company, Ropapharm International.
particularly when you consider that we are facing a crisis in our hospitals and health systems with the increasing resistance to antibiotics,
You can t just replace antibiotics with oregano oil and expect it to work, #Mr. Sechler said.
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Organic chicken and pork were less likely to be contaminated by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Those are the big motivators for the organic consumer,
#Similarly, organic meat contained considerably lower levels of antibiotic-resistant bacteria than conventionally raised animals did,
but bacteria, antibiotic-resistant or otherwise, would be killed during cooking. Dr. Bravata agreed that people bought organic food for a variety of reasons#concerns about the effects of pesticides on young children,
the environmental impact of large-scale conventional farming and the potential public health threat if antibiotic-resistant bacterial genes jumped to human pathogens.
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roughly 70 percent of the antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs used in the U s. are fed to farm animals
In fact, many common bacteria (such as Salmonella, Campylobacter, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and E coli) have developed a resistance to available antibiotics.
In the end, the new corporate structure of our food system has cheapened our diets in a way the world has seen never.
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whether repeated courses of antibiotics can affect the brain, as some have speculated. Antibiotics are used extensively in neonatal intensive care units and in childhood respiratory tract infections,
and such suppression of the normal microbiota may have longterm consequences on brain development. Finally, as the complexity of the gut flora and its effect on the brain is understood better,
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I think twice before I run to a physician for an antibiotic, #she says.##oei also think about the foods my family eats.
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#Four-fifths of all antibiotics are consumed by the meat industry Livestock consumption of antibiotics reached a record nearly 29.9 billion pounds in 2011.
The Food and Drug Administration, last year, proposed a set of voluntary#oeguidelines#designed to nudge the meat industry to curb its antibiotics habit.
Meanwhile, the meat industry has been merrily gorging away on antibiotics#nd churning out meat rife with antibiotic-resistant pathogens#f the latest data from the FDA itself is any indication.
The Pew Charitable trusts crunched the agency s numbers on antibiotic use on livestock farms and compared them to data on human use of antibiotics to treat illness,
and mashed it all into an infographic, which I ve excerpted below. Note that that
while human antibiotic use has leveled off at below 8 billion pounds annually, livestock farms have been sucking in more and more of the drugs each year#nd consumption reached a record nearly 29.9 billion pounds in 2011.
the livestock industry is now consuming nearly four-fifths of the antibiotics used in the US,
the FDA data show that antibiotic consumption jumped 2 percent over the same time period. That suggests that meat production might be getting more antibiotic-intensive.
Not surprisingly, when you cram animals together by the thousands and dose them daily with antibiotics,
the bacteria that live on and in the animals adapt and develop resistance to those bacteria killers.
#¢Of the Salmonella on ground turkey, about 78%were resistant to at least one antibiotic and half of the bacteria were resistant to three or more.
#¢Nearly three-quarters of the Salmonella found on retail chicken breast were resistant to at least one antibiotic.
#¢Resistance to tetracycline an antibiotic is up among Campylobacter on retail chicken. About 95%of chicken products were contaminated with Campylobacter,
and nearly half of those bacteria were resistant to tetracyclines. This reflects an increase over last year and 2002.
While the FDA dithers with voluntary approaches to regulation, the meat industry is feasting on antibiotics
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and his life hung in the balance as multiple courses of antibiotics over two months proved ineffective.
Finally treatment with a potent form of the antibiotic cephalosporin managed to beat back the multidrug-resistant superbug.
Research shows that people who work with livestock like Kremer are moreâ likely to carry antibiotic resistant bacteria on
Two million Americans are sickened by antibiotic-resistant bacteria every year and 23000 die from these infections according to a landmark U s. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report published last week.
For decades scientists have been teasing out the link between the abuse of antibiotics on livestock farms and the rise of superbug infections in humans.
and the World health organization are speaking out against the abuse of antibiotics in the livestock industry.
Eighty percent of all antibiotics sold in the United states by weight are used by the livestock industry mostly for animals that aren't even sick.
The CDC in its recent report stated bluntly Much of antibiotic use in animals is unnecessary and inappropriate
and Drug Administration (FDA) to do the right thing and stop the use of antibiotics in animals that are not sick.
It's recently proposed some weak voluntary guidance on proper antibiotics use but the amount of antibiotics used on industrial farms has been steadily increasing
while antibiotic use in humans has remained relatively steady. While the FDA continues to try to tiptoe around the issue more consumers are starting to demand meat raised without antibiotics
and businesses are responding. Russ Kremer after his illness converted his conventional operation into an antibiotic-free livestock farm.
He earned a Growing Green award from NRDC for his work. Major businesses including Chipotle Applegate Stonyfield Farms Niman Ranch
and others are working to provide their customers with products from animals raised without antibiotics.
And bills are pending in the House and Senate that would curb the abuse of antibiotics in livestock operations.
Antibiotics are a precious resource. The more we misuse them the less effective they become leaving sick people with fewer and more difficult treatment options.
For nearly forty years scientific evidence has been building toward the same conclusion: routinely administering antibiotics to animals that aren't sick is putting human lives at risk.
The FDA needs to move quickly to stop this practice and preserve antibiotics for their original purpose to be used as lifesaving medicine.
Lehner's most recent Op-Ed was Sell-By Labels Send Edible U s. Food to the Dump.
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An alternative to antibiotics The two studies show that cranberry powder is able to essentially disable bacteria
When antibiotics are used to treat infections most bacteria are killed but in the process any survivors can become resistant to the antibiotic used against them.
The more often antibiotics are used the more resistant the bacteria can become resulting in dangerous strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Because cranberry powder only disables bacteria the bacteria are given not the chance to grow stronger as they resist antibiotic intervention.
Eventually the disabled bacteria are flushed simply out of the body. As yet it is unclear if the bacteria would eventually develop a resistance to the immobilizing effects of the cranberry
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Tests for bacteria showed that one of the treats contained Clostridium difficile one was contaminated with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and seven contained E coli.
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To protect their bare skin hippos produce a special kind of sweat that's red and acts as sunscreen insect repellent and antibiotic salve all in one.
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Worse some honey much of which is imported from Asia has been found to contain toxins like lead and other heavy metals as well as drugs like chloramphenicol an antibiotic according to a Department of justice news release.
and the charging of five people with selling mislabeled honey that also contained chloramphenicol. Honey Solutions of Baytown Texas and Groeb Farms of Onsted Mich. have agreed to pay millions of dollars in fines
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If you haven t heard about the threat oesuperbugs (bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics) pose to our health it s likely you haven t been conscious or on the planet for a couple of years.
whether applying medical grade honey to wound sites in patients undergoing dialysis showed advantages over standard antibiotic use.
They found that using honey showed no advantages over standard antibiotic use and was in fact worse for diabetic dialysis patients.
The Lancet paper looked closely at how a naturally-derived honey preparation compares against a clinically-approved antibiotic a drug called Bactroban that s used to kill bacteria found in and around wounds.
A total of 371 trial participants undergoing dialysis received either standard antibiotic therapy to prevent infection
or deaths from infection between most people given the antibiotic or people given honey. But for people with diabetes which is associated often with kidney disease the honey actually increased the risk of infection.
While honey therapy was worse than antibiotics for diabetics the authors found the most important factor for preventing infection in all patients was how well the catheter was inserted and fixed.
We can conclude that honey therapy instead of antibiotics at least does no harm for many dialysis patients but also that it s not good for diabetics.
Matthew Cooper receives NHMRC funding for research into new antibiotics and methods to diagnose superbug infections.
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and Drug Administration (FDA) to review the routine use of antibiotics in animal feed without a sound scientific basis. Rep. Fincher's worries largely are unfounded.
The FDA has shown little enthusiasm for regulating the routine use of antibiotics in livestock. Science is on the side of much more stringent regulation.
The UCS Food and Environment program citing substantial scientific evidence has warned that the routine use of antibiotics in livestock is a major factor in antibiotic resistance in humans a huge and growing public-health problem.
But if the Sound Sciencebill became law it would be even more difficult for the FDA to try to curb the dangerous overuse of antibiotics in our livestock and hence in our food supply.
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and archaea as exemplified by antibiotic resistance. When a specific bacterium develops a defense against some drug the corresponding gene can pass horizontally to others in the same colony.
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Most UTIS are treated effectively with antibiotics. The limited evidence in studies regarding the effectiveness of cranberries however might be the way the fruit is used as a drink or as an extract in pill form according to Mcgill University scientists.
The mechanism of action is very different from antibiotics which depend on killing the cells Tufenkji said.
Antibiotics remain for now the UTI treatment of choice among most medical doctors. Christopher Wanjek is the author of a new novel Hey Einstein!
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Antibiotics often alter urine color to orange Green said. People who eat enough carrots to turn their skin orange can have orange pee too she added.
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Of the three forms of the disease cutaneous pulmonary and gastrointestinal cutaneous anthrax is the easiest to treat with antibiotics.
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 Grass-fed cows usually aren jacked t up with steroids and antibiotics. They also tend to get a bit more exercise than their grain-fed counterparts.
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but instead reacted to antibiotic residue in the food a new study suggests. Shortly after eating a slice of blueberry pie the girl experienced facial flushing hives and abnormal breathing.
or nuts but the tests all came back negative. 8 Strange Signs You're Having an Allergic reaction Further analysis showed that the pie contained residue from an antibiotic.
The doctors tested the girl for an allergy to streptomycin an antibiotic used as a pesticide on fruit.
And indeed she reacted to streptomycin in much the same way as she had responded to the blueberry pie.
Although the researchers did not have access to enough of the pie to confirm that it contained streptomycin specifically the study results suggests that the girl's allergic reaction was caused by streptomycin-contaminated blueberries the researchers said.
Allergic reactions to antibiotics in food such as beef and milk are rare but have been reported. The new study is the first to link an allergic reaction to antibiotics in fruit the researchers said.
The findings serve as a reminder to doctors in cases of unexplained allergic reaction. Don't forget to think about antibiotics said study researcher Dr. Anne Des Roches an allergist at CHU Sainte-Justine a health center affiliated with the University of Montreal in Quebec.
Allergic reaction to antibiotics in food are underdiagnosed because doctors cannot simply check a product label for antibiotics;
they have to send the sample to special laboratories to perform an analysis Des Roches said.
This is a very rare allergic reaction Dr. James Sublett president-elect of the American College of Allergy Asthma
Use of antibiotics in agriculture has received criticism because it may contribute to the rise of antibiotic resistance.
Some countries have banned the use of antibiotics for growing food but the practice is allowed in the United states and Canada.
Recently the U s. Food and Drug Administration took steps to help phase out the use of certain antibiotics in livestock;
the drugs had been used to help animals gain weight faster. Stricter policies to reduce antibiotic contaminants in foods will not only help to fight antibiotic resistance
but may also reduce the type of rare allergic reaction that the girl in the study experienced the researchers said.
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Nobody died from typhoid in the outbreak thanks to antibiotics so in that regard it was modern.
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all natural no hormones fillers or antibiotics and most importantly they run free in the fields.
No hormones or antibiotics ever. Elevation Burger goes even further promising 100-percent USDA-certified organic grass-fed free-range beef.
Hormones and antibiotics aside the biggest distinction when quantifying beef's marginal benefits to human health
so producers routinely feed them antibiotics which also serve to accelerate growth. After they are weaned from their mothers
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Those taking antibiotics anticoagulants blood thinners anticonvulsants barbiturates benzodiazepines insomnia drugs and tricyclic antidepressants should be careful not to eat too much pineapple.
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The results imply that there is still time to conserve the immense genetic diversity of microbes as sources of new antibiotics and absorbers of carbon dioxide.
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Among those we are likely to encounter on foods in our homes are Penicillium(#oecousins#of those used to make antibiotics
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For example antibiotics are used to combat bacterial food poisoning. Dehydration which can be fatal is the major complication of food poisoning
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Antibiotic resistance Moran's research has revealed that bacteria in the guts of honeybees are highly resistant to the preventive antibiotic tetracycline probably the result of decades of exposure to it because of its use by beekeepers to prevent bacterial diseases.
Moran's team identified eight different tetracycline resistance genes among U s. honeybees that were exposed to the antibiotic
but the genes were largely absent in bees from countries where such antibiotic use is banned.
The antibiotic resistance study was an early hint about the dynamic nature of these genomes she adds.
It turns out that in the United states antibiotics have been used widely in beekeeping since the 1950s mostly tetracycline.
And the gut microbiota of U s. honeybees is a treasure trove of tetracycline resistance genes that have been transferred horizontally from other bacteria.
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The most common control measures chemical antimicrobials such as antibiotics do not eliminate the lactic acid bacteria.
Additionally the potential antibiotic residue left on the grains after fermentation turns away customers who would
like antibiotics there is a window of opportunity for treatment. A 10-or 100-fold reduction in lactic acid bacteria increases ethanol yields.
An additional plus is that replacing antibiotics with phages during the fermentation process increases the marketability of the dried distillers-grain byproduct (the potential animal feed)
which can be labeled as antibiotic free. Developing phage products to control such bacteria during ethanol fermentation represents an attractive phage application in the larger picture of industrial microbiology.
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Today antibiotics are used to treat people with brucellosis and no more than 2 percent of infected people die from the disease according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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the antibiotics chloramphenicol and neomycin; and the gout treatment colchicine. The diabetes drug metformin may interfere with the body's absorption of Vitamin b12 not through stomach acid but because of the drug's effect on calcium
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Products produced by fungi are used in medicine many antibiotics come from fungi and the production of a range of food products including soy sauce blue cheese bread beer and wine.
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#Livestock Workers May Carry Staph Bacteria from Pigs Workers who handle livestock may carry antibiotic-resistant bacteria in their noses after they leave the farm.
and some carried drug-resistant strains of the bug including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA.
Over the past several decades it's become standard practice for farmers to give animals such as chickens and pigs regular doses of antibiotics.
However the increasing use of antibiotics has encouraged the evolution of drug-resistant strains of bacteria.
Antibiotic-resistant strains of staph such as MRSA can be the most damaging because they can be very difficult to treat.
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If children take the antibiotics tetracycline and doxycycline while their teeth are still developing (before the age of 8) their teeth may turn brownish-yellow.
During adulthood chlorhexidine an antiseptic used in prescription-strength mouthwash to treat gingivitis can cause discolorations.
Likewise the acne-fighting drug minocycline a derivative of tetracycline stains teeth. Even relatively common drugs such as antihistamines and blood pressure medications can sometimes yellow teeth.
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Whey protein supplements may reduce the effectiveness of quinolone and tetracycline antibiotics. People with diabetes may experience changes in blood sugar when taking protein supplements.
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The abuse of antibiotics in the livestock industry where animals that aren't sick are fed low doses of antibiotics day after day to try to compensate for unsanitary conditions risks impairing the effectiveness of those essential medicines
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However if phages prove successful in this way it would greatly reduce the need for antibiotics in livestock
Antibiotic resistance in bacteria is a crisis. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention each year in the United states at least two million people become infected with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics
and at least 23000 people die each year as a direct result of these infections.##Phages are a hopeful alternative.
After penicillin hit the market in the early 1940s phage therapy was abandoned largely. But now that many bacteria are resistant to one
or more antibiotics phages are making a comeback. Bacteria can become resistant to phages as well.
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Taking magnesium too close to a dose of some antibiotics including ciprofloxacin and moxifloxacin may interfere with how the body absorbs the medicine.
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Top 10 Cancer-Fighting Foods And in addition to the cashew's known nutritional benefits researchers have explored also the possibility of using the toxic oil found in the nut's shell as an antibiotic.
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Insects can become resistant to individual insecticides in much the same way as bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics.
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and caused the plants to produce a protein inducing resistance to the antibiotic kanamycin. However, an expert committee dismissed these concerns,
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and an isolated environment where they were fed antibiotics on a daily basis. The scientists then killed piglets on days 5 (neonatal stage), 28 (weaning age),
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an indoor environment and isolated conditions in which they were fed antibiotics daily. The scientists then killed piglets on day 5 (neonatal stage),
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but because it contains marker genes that confer resistance to the antibiotics kanamycin and neomycin.
Breeders of GM CROPS use antibiotic-resistance markers to spot which plants have incorporated successfully transgenes. They attach the antibiotic-resistance gene onto the desired trait genes,
and then treat the transgenic seedlings with antibiotics, which kills those plants that haven't taken up the foreign genes.
Environmental groups and some countries have had longstanding concerns about the risk of genes spreading from crops to bacteria and increasing bacterial antibiotic resistance.
What does the science say about that risk? The EFSA considered this in the context of the Amflora application in 2005,
and concluded that the risk of transfer of antibiotic resistance from plants to bacteria was remote,
and that bacteria resistant to the antibiotics were already present in soil, animals and humans.
That position was restated in a broader safety assessment of antibiotic-resistance markers, published by EFSA's GMO
and that introducing genes that confer resistance to antibiotics that are used, for example, to treat multiply drug-resistant tuberculosis simply isn't a good idea.
Modification technologies developed since then allow the use of alternatives to antibiotic-resistance markers, or allow such markers to be spliced out of the plant before cultivation.
Indeed, although the EU, the World health organization and many health bodies accept that the risk of transfer of antibiotic resistance seems low
they have called for antibiotic-resistance markers in GMOS to be phased out. More broadly, other experts say that much more publicly funded research on GMOS would lead to greater public confidence in risk assessments,
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