Quantitative Health Risk Analysis Methods: Modeling the Human Health Impacts of Antibiotics Used in Food Animals

by Louis Anthony Cox Jr.

Book Overview

This book grew out of an effort to salvage a potentially useful idea for greatly simplifying traditional quantitative risk assessments of the human health consequences of using antibiotics in food animals. In 2001, the United States FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) (FDA-CVM, 2001) published a risk assessment model for potential adverse human health consequences of using a certain class of antibiotics, fluoroquinolones, to treat flocks of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387259090
• ISBN13: 9780387259093
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"