Saying he was condensing a 2-3 day seminar into 30 minutes, Dr. W. Ron DeHaven, executive vice president and chief executive officer of the American Veterinary Medical Assn. (AVMA), sought to bring the use of antibiotics home to pork producers at the forum yesterday.
He first noted that the attention to antibiotics use in recent weeks — CBS, commission reports, legislation, etc. — has created a public that’s “concerned but misinformed” about how antibiotics are used in food animal production.
He then defined a few terms, including microorganisms that are living organisms too small to be seen, antimicrobials that can kill microorganisms or keep them from multiplying and antibiotics that are a subset of antimicrobials. Read More…
