recludes testing and treating individual chickens--so when a veterinarian diagnoses an infected bird, the farmers treat the whole flock by adding the drug to its drinking water. While the drug may cure the E. coli bacteria in the poultry, another kind of bacteria--Campylobacter--may build up resistance to these drugs. And that's the root of the problem." Linda Bren food and drugs administration
             Another area of animal protein production that is alarmingly implementing the use of antibiotics is aquaculture. Because this is an experimental new field of food production there are not specific strict regulations and laws on how to safely produce fish destined to feed humans. The problems expands beyond our control because we import most the fish we actually consume, in fact 70% of the shrimp production in Thailand in destined to American markets. In Thailand shrimp farmers have no regulation or impediments in buying over the counter medicines to treat their ponds, such medicatio
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