Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance

Antibiotics: Importance in Different Industries

It is assessed that more than one-portion of the antibiotics in the U.S. are utilized used in food animal production.  Antibiotics are utilized in food animals to treat clinical illness, to prevent and control common disease events, and to improve animal growth. The utilization of antibiotics in agriculture is routinely portrayed as a noteworthy contributor of the clinical problem of resistant disease in human medicine. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is implementing another system to support more fitting and reasonable utilization of antibiotics in food animal production. The system expects to control antibiotic abuse and overuse by identifying certain antibiotics that will now require veterinary oversight by means of the Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD). The FDA will also help drug companies voluntarily re-label antibiotic products to remove feed efficiency and development advancement claims. Labels will instead emphasize antibiotic use for the prevention, control, and treatment of bacterial infections.