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Food for Thought, Sprinkled With Small Amounts of Antibiotic Residues

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80% of antibiotics worldwide are used in veterinary medicine. With only a minor fraction metabolized to inactive compounds, there are plenty of antibiotics excreted by farm animals in unchanged active form. These antibiotic residues are found in manure, in the Continue reading Food for Thought, Sprinkled With Small Amounts of Antibiotic Residues→

An Inconvenient Truth: Ciprofloxacin-Resistant Campylobacter

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When Al Gore became a best-selling author with “An Inconvenient Truth” he warned about climate change.  When it comes to antibiotic resistance and the current situation of “Bad Bugs, No Drugs”, there are many voices warning us about a return Continue reading An Inconvenient Truth: Ciprofloxacin-Resistant Campylobacter→