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Study on Veterinary Antimicrobial use
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- The study’s paper was published in the journal PLoS Global Public Health.
- Scientists developed antimicrobial drugs to fight infections in people and animals.
- But by 2019, “73% of all antimicrobials sold on Earth [were] used in animals raised for food.
- India’s antimicrobial usage (AMU) intensity was estimated to be 43% higher than the global average in 2020 itself.
- It is expected to be 40% more than the average in 2030.
- Within the country, the researchers identified ‘hotspots’ in east and south India.
- Many farm-owners here use second-generation antibiotics called ciprofloxacin and enrofloxacin to shorten harvest time by a week.
- In 2017, India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare floated a ‘National Action Plan’ to contain antimicrobial resistance.
- Two years later, the government banned the use of colistin in all food-producing animals.
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