Shoring up
following the detection of antibiotic residues in shrimps exported from India in 2002, the government seems to be making a concerted effort to rectify the situation. The Marine Products Export
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Salmon farming under scrutiny in Chile
Following years of criticism of the environmental and labour impacts of the salmon industry in Chile, several local ngos and trade unions have joined hands to set up a new body to monitor the
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Bitter pill
Bayer AG has agreed to pay the US government US $257 million after it was found guilty of overcharging for its antibiotic drug Cipro. The company admitted to selling Cipro to healthcare provider
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Buffalo protein against cattle diseases
it is believed that buffaloes are more tolerant to tropical infections than cattle. A new study says Indian water buffalo harbours a protein which can yield antibiotics to cure diseases in cattle.
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Health fears prompt removal of antibiotic
Australia's most widely used animal antibiotic will be taken off the market worldwide because it causes antibiotic resistance in humans. The antibiotic avoparcin, commonly used as a growth promoter
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Bug exterminators
Molecules that mimic DNA could be turned into a new family of anti biotics, say Danish scientists. The molecules are based on peptide nucleic acid (PNA). In PNA, nucleotide bases like those in DNA
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Pain-free animals could take suffering out of farming
With "hormone-free", "cage-free" and "antibiotic-free" becoming common labels on our supermarket shelves, might "pain-free" be the next sticker slapped onto a rump roast? As unlikely as that may seem, progress in neuroscience and genetics in recent years makes it a very real possibility. In fact, according to one philosopher, we have an ethical duty to consider the option.
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Analysis of macrolide antibiotics
The following macrolide antibiotics have been covered in this review: erythromycin and its related substances, azithromycin, clarithromycin, dirithromycin, roxithromycin, flurithromycin, josamycin, rokitamycin, kitasamycin, mycinamycin, mirosamycin, oleandomycin, rosaramicin, spiramycin and tylosin.
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Cornucopia of cures
Genome of life saving bacterium is sequenced
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Avoparcin used as a growth promoter is associated with the occurrence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium on Danish poultry and pig farms
We determined the association between the use of the glycopeptide antibiotic avoparcin as a growth promoter and the occurrence of Enterococcus faecium (VREF) with high-level resistance to vancomycin (MIC
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Bad drugs
The Europian Union votes to ban four widely used antibiotics in animal feed
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Farm antibiotics pose risk to humans
The farming industry in the UK was told yesterday to wake up to the "calamitous consequences" of overusing antibiotics on farms. The governemnt's food safety advisers said there was conclusive
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Drug overkill
Irrational drug prescriptions are giving rise to drug resistant bacteria
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Global Consumption Trends Break New Records
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Global Consumption Trends Break New Records
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Saving bucks and more
A TEAM of researchers from the school Of biotechnology of Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU) in Tamil Nadu, has developed a new drug that could relieve the burden of treatment expenses for
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Fowl play
Usage of antibiotics in farm animals could be making human microbes drug resistant
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Black death unravelled
The plague bacterium genome is mapped
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Working in tandem
A two-drug therapy that promises to cure stomach ulcers and prevent their recurrence has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. Under the newly approved regimen, patients will take
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Determination of lincomycin and tylosin residues in honey by liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry
A simple and rapid analytical method was developed for the determination of lincomycin and tylosin residues in honey as part of field studies examining the efficacy and target animal safety of these antibiotics to control American foulbrood disease in honey bees.