Venkateshwara Hatcheries claim that levels are far below EU standards With Chicken sales impacted in certain states of India after a report by Centre for Science and Environment claiming to find antibiotics
Antimicrobial resistance from environmental pollution is among the biggest emerging health threats, a UN Environment report said on Tuesday. Launched during the United Nations Environment Assembly at
<p>Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a priority for surveillance in bacterial infections. For leprosy, AMR has not been assessed because Mycobacterium leprae does not grow in vitro.<a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Antimicrobial-resistance-leprosy.pdf"
It appears that tasty chicken dishes are fast disappearing from the menu of Keralites, thanks to the recent report by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on the rampant use of antibiotics in
A study conducted by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has linked growing antibiotic resistance in humans to its large-scale, indiscriminate use in the poultry industry. "Drugged" is the
Growing antibiotic-resistance in humans also because of large-scale indiscriminate use of antibiotics in poultry industry, claims CSE study. more at http://www.cseindia.org/node/5487
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Adulteration of Milk and Milk Products, 22/11/2019. The Nationwide Milk Safety and Quality Survey conducted by Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) in 2018
MUMBAI: The average time that India's neighbourhood doctors, called primary care consultants, spend with patients is a negligible two minutes. Neighbouring Bangladesh and Pakistan seem worse off, with
Antibiotic use has surged by 36% worldwide in a decade, much of it unwarranted, according to a new study. The rise, particularly in countries with a burgeoning middle class, heightens concerns that
Antibiotics now rank among the most counterfeited medicines in the world, feeding a global epidemic of drug-resistant superbugs. A new surveillance and reporting program in 80 countries led by the World
<p>High antibiotic and antifungal concentrations in wastewater from anti-infective drug production may exert selection pressure for multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens. We investigated the environmental
<p>Over the past two decades Denmark has instituted reforms to antibiotic use for livestock that are showing solid progress in reducing the prevalence of resistant bacteria.</p> <p><strong><a href="http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/122/6/ehp.122-A160.pdf"
KOLKATA: The dengue serotype that is stalking the city this time around is deadlier than usual. The health department has said that the strains this time are type two (Den 2) and four (Den 4), perhaps
The World Health Organization says it has sent nearly 1.2 million doses of antibiotics to Madagascar in the fight against plague. The medicines were delivered last week, with the expectation that another
Milk contamination is a bigger problem in India than milk adulteration, a nationwide study by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India’s (FSSAI) has found. The National Milk Safety and Quality
More investment is needed to make urban waste water treatment plants fit to meet the difficult challenges posed by the impacts of climate change, as well as the presence of antibiotics and other micro-pollutants
The world is headed for a post-antibiotic era Antibiotic resistance is a serious threat to public health with cases being reported from every region of the world and having the potential to affect anyone,
<p><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/media/iep/homepage/antimicrobial.jpg" style="width: 340px; height: 189px; margin: 14px; float: left;" />The new FAO action plan on antimicrobial
Multi-drug resistant bacteria are moving from poultry enclosures to agricultural fields, says study India’s poultry farms maybe breeding grounds for multi-drug resistant bacteria, says a study conducted
Growth of intensive units has potential to increase antibiotic resistance and could result in spread of bird flu beyond region The use of antibiotics in factory farms in Asia is set to more than double
