But the spray is only part of the MS Bioscience regimen : there must also be clean litter for the chickens, and neither antibiotics nor growth promoters can be used.
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Nearly 70 percent of all antibiotics produced in the Unites States are fed to animals as growth promoters, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nonprofit organization based in Cambridge, Mass.
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To study the environmental effect of these antibiotics around two swine farms that use tetracycline as a growth promoter, Aminov's team analyzed samples from farm-waste lagoons and from groundwater reservoirs beneath the lagoons.
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And the drug that was expected to be next in line after Synercid, a compound called Ziracin, is practically identical to a growth promoter called avilamycin, which has been primarily used for poultry.
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EU farmers and the pharmaceutical industry are likely to object to the proposal to ban four antibiotics and review the four others that EU member nations can use as growth promoters in animal feed.
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Resistant strains of food-borne disease are appearing with alarming frequency-- aided by the growing use of antibiotics as growth promoters in animal feeds, which now constitutes an estimated one-third of all antibiotics used in the country.
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_Resistant strains of food-borne disease are appearing with alarming frequency _ aided by the growing use of antibiotics as growth promoters in animal feeds, which now constitutes an estimated one-third of all antibiotics used in the country.
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In plain language this means that even small additional doses of residues of this hormone in meat, arising from its use as a growth promoter in cattle, has an inherent risk of causing cancer, " the report said.
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In plain language this means that even small additional doses of residues of this hormone in meat arising from its use as a growth promoter in cattle has an inherent risk of causing cancer, " the report said.
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Overuse of antibiotics is also a factor in the development of resistance, Levy said, citing patients who pressure doctors for antibiotics that are not needed and farmers who use the drugs as pesticides on fruit trees and growth promoters in livestock.
