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Veterinary drugs: health for poultry and humans
- Author: Arief Fachrudin
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I think the concern over the Antibiotic usage is already been set into open for longer time now. People grow and matures and already understand the risk about that improper usage and the ban against the improper usage. Concerns are now raised that chicken products raised with no antibiotics are easily sold at the market. I mean, If you know that company that says that their chickens are no antibiotic raised. Anyway, the usage of antibiotics and other medicines for poultry are to be implemented or supervised by a farm trusted veterinarian. The veterinarian should strictly imposed his obligation not just by keeping the animal in good condition and grow fast but to ensure a healthy meat product available on the market. I mean there is no issue there... awareness is already been called out for longer time now... it is the people who operates the farm are the one who are not deligent enough to observe the proper handling of the product. I beleive the FARMERS should BE EDUCATED first about the medicines, the proper handling and the health risk for the mis use of the veterinary drugs before giving them the license to operate a POULTRY farms.
DENIS ARPAFO : ventilation equipment Sale Department // Tuesday 29 April 2008
It is mportant that each firm management set their goals aright which should centre on consumer satisfaction without compromising food safety & standard.This i belief will further ensure that there is good poultry mgt, nutrition policy,housing policy e.t.c in place.
There is no denying the fact that indiscriminate use of antibiotics leads to resistance towards it by the pathogens and hence it should be stopped. The resistant pathogens become more dangerous for the bird as well as the consumers. The point is why this is happening? This is because of the poor management conditions in the farms and feed mills, and poor education of the farmers. I think imparting knowledge to the bird rearers on how to maximise their profits by using less of antibiotics will be useful in improving the situation and we at Vetcare, India do exactly the same by promoting more nutritional and hygiene products than antibiotics.
I actually have a question regarding the subject.How would the excessive use growth promoters and or Growth hormones affect humans. I was told by my veterinary Doctor friend of mine that the use of especially growth hormones could be reponsible for premature 'maturity' of children. I was told this is more evident in girls and the increased sexual (prematurely) activity of both boys and girls.
If the technical support of the pharma-companies should only think about profits and bonuses when selling their products,we need to take a look at company's policy to all of their worker, why such a behaviour could take place. The company should work together with the government in creating the conducive working condition and standart operasional procedure. The strictly supervision in the real life condition is strongly needed to correct misuse of the drugs. A second visit to the farm may be neccesary after a report of visit from the technical sopport officer. One more important thing we should tell the technical support regarding the danger of misuse of the drug in the long term. From Joko Prihanto of Indonesia
Dear Arief Fachrudin Health Canada is responsible for protecting human and animal health and the safety of Canada's food supply. Through the Veterinary Drugs Directorate (VDD), Health Canada evaluates and monitors the safety, quality and effectiveness, sets standards and promotes the prudent use of veterinary drugs administered to food-producing and companion animals.
Refer to the "Prudent Use Principles" for Veterinary drugs as enforced by the US FDA. It is necessary to train and monitor Veterinarians as to the appropriate use of drugs. Involvement at all levels from regulators to contractors is critical Thailand solved the problem of nitrofurans in poultry. China et al have not. Industries must recognize that drugs are only ameliorative in reducing losses. Underlying deficiencies in management , housing, nutrition ,vaccination and biosecurity must be resolved. In the context of Asia this realistically requires restructuring of poultry production to eliminate subsistence production and live bird marketing.Sad but an evolutionary imperative.
This is very important write up because Sri Lanka is also faced for this problem since 2004. There is up coming trend of high early chick mortality due to poor management of all over the broiler breeding and hatchery/s at present in Sri Lanka. Heavy dose of sensitive antibiotic/s are indispensable to control EC M. But, it is not a good strategy and it is essential to improve TQM of all levels of all breeding and hatchery/s. I have experienced in INDIA that has also similar situation during recent past. So, I request to address this issue frequently until showing significant improvement of proper usage of antibiotic/s. vet@nelna.org
...so it is very important for the pharma company in recruiting technical service worker as it determines the future success in vet drug business. The companies are adviced to carefully select people to be posted in that position. The information from the farmer that the technical support have visited urgently needed due to it provides details of what might the technical support worker said and did to the farmer in the efforts to monitor the fault included misused or over dosing the drug administered by the farmer. The farmer company must ask their technical support worker about the farmer's telephone number to recheck back later what to be done in the field or encourage farmer to give the weekly recording of their flock to the company......
