Bulletin of the World Health Organization ()

What to do about resistant bacteria in the food-chain?

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2471/blt.15.030415
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 93, no. 4
pp. 217 – 218

Abstract

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This year’s World Health Day is on food safety. The mass use of antibiotics in animal husbandry is contaminating the food supply with resistant bacteria, causing difficult-to-treat infections while reducing the power of antibiotics to cure human infections. Antoine Andremont talks to Fiona Fleck.