Dose Imprecision and Resistance: Free-Choice Medicated Feeds in Industrial Food Animal Production in the United States | Zendy

David C. Love | Zendy; Meghan F. Davis | Zendy; Anna Bassett | Zendy; A. Günther | Zendy; Keeve E. Nachman | Zendy

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Dose Imprecision and Resistance: Free-Choice Medicated Feeds in Industrial Food Animal Production in the United States

Author(s) -

David C. Love,

Meghan F. Davis,

Anna Bassett,

A. Günther,

Keeve E. Nachman

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1002625

Subject(s) - antibiotics , livestock , dosing , antimicrobial , veterinary drugs , medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , intensive care medicine , antibiotic resistance , biology , pharmacology , veterinary medicine , ecology

Industrial food animal production employs many of the same antibiotics or classes of antibiotics that are used in human medicine. These drugs can be administered to food animals in the form of free-choice medicated feeds (FCMF), where animals choose how much feed to consume. Routine administration of these drugs to livestock selects for microorganisms that are resistant to medications critical to the treatment of clinical infections in humans.

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