date:May 29, 2012
highlighted the need to minimise use of the drugs where possible on food safety grounds.
In recent years, scientific concern over the accumulation of such drugs in the tissues of animals and the potential health hazard caused by their transmission into food has been mounting. Evidence has suggested such drugs transferred into human foods can trigger allergic reactions or induce pathogen resistance to antibiotics used in human medicine.
Regulatory climate
The study notes that while the Europe