The Use of Drugs in Food Animals: Benefits and Risks

by National Research Council, Panel on Animal Health, Food Safety, and Public Health, Institute of Medicine, et al.

The use of drugs in food animal production has resulted in benefits throughout the food industry; however, their use has also raised public health safety concerns.

The Use of Drugs in Food Animals provides an overview of why and how drugs are used in the major food-producing animal industries--poultry, dairy, beef, swine, and aquaculture. The volume discusses the prevalence of human pathogens in foods of animal origin. It also addresses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309054346
• ISBN13: 9780309054348
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"