Antibiotics in Animal Feeds in Great Britain

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Introduction I am an animal nutritionist. My approach to controversial, technical issues of public importance in the field of my interests is to endeavour to produce and/or collect factual evidence and present it adequately, to refrain from speculations and philosophical indulgences and to assess, to the best of my ability, the hazards, disadvantages and benefits connected with the relevant problem. My general attitude to the problems associated with the use of antibiotics, as performance promoting feed additives to diets of livestock, can be best described by quoting Verdonk (1973): “No scientist can protect the public from itself and from the strange complexion of this age in which obsession with absolute safety will cause people to sweep aside overriding benefits because they entail some risk.” I would like to follow this quotation with another, which I believe is relevant to the subject: “When legal regulations are being designed, they must take into consideration the economics of both animal production and pharmaceutical research. if they do not, they may find themselves without productsto register, or alternatively, products which are of such low efficacy that they cannot play an important part in improving productivity and producing more food for man” (Brander, 1975). Copyright © 1978. American Society of Animal Science . Copyright 1978 by American Society of Animal Science.

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