No link found between resistant bacteria, farm-use antibiotics

As the debate continues concerning the use of antibiotics in food animals and the relationship to drug-resistant infections in people, a team of interdisciplinary scientists reviewed published literature for evidence of a relationship between antibiotic use in agricultural animals and drug-resistant foodborne campylobacter infections in humans, commonly known as campylobacteriosis. The research team found no conclusive evidence of a definitive link between use of antibiotics in food animals and emergence of drug-resistant campylobacter. Read more at Feedstuffs…