Screening for Coccidiostats
Feed additives are important in modern agriculture and a focus of the European Union (EU) framework. Whilst such products are used to improve the characteristics of feed, any company wanting to use...
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New Antibiotic Policy at Major Fast Food Chain
Major food chain McDonald’s have unveiled a new policy to reduce the overall use of antibiotics across their global beef supply chain. Under the policy, the use of antibiotics for growth promotion is...
View ArticleNigeria bans the use of antibiotics in animal feed
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has issued a ban against the use of antibiotics (growth promoters and mould inhibitor) in animal feeds. With this ban in place...
View ArticleHappy World Food Safety Day 2019!
Today is the first world food safety day in history. On 20th December 2018 the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 73/250 proclaiming a World Food Safety Day. Starting in 2019, every...
View ArticleHarmful antibiotic use within seafood & chicken in China
Recent studies have found harmful water and food contamination throughout China due to the countries large use of antibiotics. In June 2006 an infant receiving treatment for a fungal infection and...
View ArticleCanadian horse meat flagged……. again
A recent RASFF (Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed) alert has been raised by the European Commission in Belgium, displaying an unauthorised level of Phenylbutazone detected in Canadian horse meat....
View ArticleThe US and EU settle their beef over new deal
The US government has agreed a new trade deal which welcomes more non-hormone treated beef into the EU. The deal which was agreed in early 2019 was officially signed on the 2nd August. It allows the...
View ArticleNew draft guidance for antibiotic use in livestock has been released by the FDA
The FDA has published a new draft antibiotic guidance for industry (GFI) #263 this week. The guidance aims to establish a process to voluntarily bring the remaining medically important drugs under...
View ArticleMeat | World Antibiotic Awareness Week |Day #2
Meat On Day 2 of World Antibiotic Awareness Week we are looking at the meat industry and their use for antibiotics. Antibiotics are frequently used for rapid growth promotion and prevention of...
View ArticleFDA calls for urgent work on the over-use of antibiotics
The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has released a statement this week in the wake of damning results in the use of antibiotics within the food industry. More specifically, the statement has...
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