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WAAW 2023
Ensuring food safety: The importance of food quality assurance roles in reducing antibiotic resistance. It's World Antibiotic Awareness Week 2023! Antibiotic resistance has become a global health concern, posing a -
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Prescriptions Required for Livestock Antibiotics in USA
In a move to safeguard animal welfare and protect public health, starting June 11th 2023 the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced new regulations requiring prescriptions for certain types -
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Day 3 | World Antimicrobial Awareness Week: We Meat Again!
Day 3 of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week! Randox Food Diagnostics provide innovative testing using our revolutionary Biochip Array Technology to detect antibiotics in meat / tissue to ensure the production of safe -
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Malachite Green Found in Live Groupers Imported from Taiwan
Malachite green is a triphenylmethane dye used in the aquaculture industry to treat fungal infections however, it has been banned in many countries including China since 2002. Research suggests that it is -
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Banned substance furazolidone (AOZ) detected in shrimp at French boarder
As per an alert through RASFF – the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed for the EU, shrimp imported from India has been rejected at the French boarder in March for -
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Brazil Bans Tylosin for Swine Production
Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA) has banned the antibiotic and growth promoter tylosin for use in swine production. The ban was put in place as tylosin has been classified -
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Meat | World Antibiotic Awareness Week |Day #2
Meat On Day 2 of World Antibiotic Awareness Week we are looking at the meat industry and their use for antibiotics. Antibiotics are frequently used for rapid growth promotion and prevention -
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UK border control seizes antibiotic consignment
It has been reported this week by the Guardian newspaper that a large consignment of Chinese antibiotic suspected to be destined for Northern Ireland where stopped at UK customs and with -
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UK poultry sector announces 80.2% reduction in antibiotic use
The British Poultry Council’s Antibiotic Stewardship Report has announced that in the last 6 years (2012-2018) there has been a reduction of 80.2% in the total use of antibiotics in the -
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New draft guidance for antibiotic use in livestock has been released by the FDA
The FDA has published a new draft antibiotic guidance for industry (GFI) #263 this week. The guidance aims to establish a process to voluntarily bring the remaining medically important drugs under
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