Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is now recognized as a major global public health problem which has been aggravated by the irrational use of antimicrobial agents in human and animal health as well as the presence of these agents in the environment. AMR in animal pathogens makes disease treatments ineffective, increases the …
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 its headquarters here, The Frontiers Report finds the role of the environment in the emergence and spread of resistance to antimicrobials is particularly …
Antibiotics that has spilled from farms into the natural environment may be a bigger factor in spreading resistance to life-saving drugs than previously thought, report says. The overuse of antibiotics in farming has been highlighted as one of the biggest emerging threats to human health, spreading resistance to vital drugs …
In the last five years antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has gained greater importance and climbed up higher on the global health and development agenda. In 2011, an initiative by India was culminated in the Jaipur Declaration on AMR by the 11 countries of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) South-East Asia region. …
Approximately 10.5% of medicines in low and middle income countries including India are sub-standard and falsified, said WHO in this report. This report has grown out of the work of the GSMS, which provides national regulatory authorities with an interconnected network. This allows them, for the first time, to cross-reference …
If the antibiotics don't work on you falling ill, blame it on milk, eggs, chicken and other food stuff of animal origin. The Government has woken up only now to the menace of growing anti-antibiotic resistance in human beings because of all these products. The Food Safety and Standards Authority …
Prasad also called for strong guidelines for the fast food chains in India so that the burning issue of health hazards by antimicrobial resistance (AMR) can be tackled. Director General of Health Services (DGHS) Jagdish Prasad has called for small and big fast food chains in India to stop using …
The antibiotics used in animals can enter the human body and make it resistant to the drugs. With the increase in the antibiotic injected poultry and meat consumed by people, the centre is concerned about the ill-effects of this practice. They have now proposed a regulation of these drugs injected …
While on the one hand it is critical to control overuse, on the other there is need to improve antibiotics access to the poor and vulnerable When it comes to antibiotics use, India faces a twin challenge. A ‘skewed’ ground reality that requires it to control overconsumption of antibiotics and …
To limit antibiotics in meat The Union Health Ministry, through the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), has notified an amendment to the Food Safety & Standards (Contaminants, Toxins & Residues) Regulations, 2011. The notification, dated November 7, contains maximum permissible limits of various antibiotics in meat and …
Studies have shown that drug resistance cases are on the rise across the world Concerned about rising levels of antibiotics in meat and poultry products consumed by citizens, the Centre has proposed to regulate the quantity of 137 drugs that can be pumped into the animals' bodies. Indiscriminate use of …
Meat production was 7.37 million tonnes and has increased by 8.48 per cent in 2016-17. Hyderabad: Multinational producers of meat, fish and chicken have adopted double standards and continue to use antibiotics in the food which is supplied to India. However, they desist from doing so when it comes to …
Expressing worry over the use of antibiotics in poultry, including chicken, the CSE warned that eating junk food in India involved major health risks for consumers. A green body today alleged that fast food majors in India were adopting “double standards” by committing themselves to eliminating misuse of antibiotics in …
They’ve made little commitment in India on antibiotics misuse in chicken, meat, says CSE Global fast food companies do not have any India-specific commitments to eliminate the misuse of antibiotics in their meat supply chains. This is despite the companies having made “ambitious, specific and time-bound” commitments in the US …
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 the length of medical consultation averaging 48 seconds and 1.3 minutes, respectively, according to the largest international study on consulting time, published …
WHO is recommending that farmers and the food industry stop using antibiotics routinely to promote growth and prevent disease in healthy animals. The new WHO recommendations aim to help preserve the effectiveness of antibiotics that are important for human medicine by reducing their unnecessary use in animals. In some countries, …
Reason behind a broad spectrum of antibiotics becoming ineffective, finds govt.-commissioned study Mass-bathing in the Ganga during pilgrimages may be contributing to anti-microbial resistance (AMR), says a government-commissioned report on the threat from AMR. Such resistance —previously acknowledged to be widespread in India — is said to be the reason …
In its most recent Model List of Essential Medicines, WHO adopted a new classification for antibiotics. This new model comprises three categories: Key Access antibiotics (eg, β-lactam, aminoglycoside, and first-generation or second-generation cephalosporin antibiotics) that “should be widely available, affordable and quality-assured”; Watch Group antibiotics (including most of the highest …
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 explaining why the disease has claimed more than 20 lives in and around the …
These are either underused, overused or misused: Study. Hyderabad: Seventy-five per cent of samples collected by a medical college in the city for diagnosing the urinary tract infections (UTIs) found that there was no bacterial growth in urine culture due to indiscriminate use of antibiotics to treat infection. Urinary tract …
In another study done on eggs, it pointed out that eggs may contain large amounts of salmonella, both on the shell and inside the egg. New Delhi: Caged poultry products, which are widely used in Delhi and NCR region, are dangerous for human consumption. A study by the National Environmental …
