Antibiotic drug consumption is a major driver of antibiotic resistance. Variations in antibiotic resistance across countries are attributable, in part, to different volumes and patterns for antibiotic consumption. The researchers aimed to assess variations in consumption to assist monitoring of the rise of resistance and development of rational-use policies and to provide a baseline for future assessment.
Admitting that the Centre for Science and Environment’s (CSE) findings about chicken being fed on antibiotics were “alarming’ but also something that public health experts have long suspected, the
If you are planning to have chicken in your meal, watch out! Poultry farmers in the outskirts of Jaipur are pumping antibiotics indiscriminately throughout the 3540 day life cycle of chicken.
Seventy chicken samples from Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR), tested by the Centre for Science and Environment, were found to be carrying traces of five antibiotics.
Claiming that it found several antibiotic residues in chickens tested in Delhi-NCR region, an environment body on Wednesday said "large-scale and indiscriminate" use of antibiotics in poultry indus
