Antibiotics in everyday produce.

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Antibiotics Remaining in Everyday Produce Threaten Human Health http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200605/kt2006050717554211980.htmBy Kim RahnStaff Reporter It's not only human beings that take antibiotics _ so do vegetables, fish and livestock, because we give them chemicals to prevent disease. However, it is humans that consume the largest amount of antibiotics, because we eat the vegetables, fish and livestock that have been raised using chemicals. It is not new that antibiotics are used in food cultivation. At ranches and fish farms, people include antibiotics in feed. Farmers also give chemicals to vegetables in the form of fertilizer. But antibiotics remaining in everyday produce can cause serious health problems. ``People do not develop tolerance to antibiotics if they take proper doses. But if antibiotics are remaining in food products, people who eat the food will have the same result as if they eat an overdose of

antibiotics,'' Kwak Hyo-sun from the Korea Food and Drug Administration's food microbiology division, said. If people keep eating food with antibiotic residues, bacteria in their body will build resistance to the chemicals, she said. ``If people develop tolerance, it takes more time for them to have their diseases treated effectively. And they need to take stronger antibiotics or different kinds of antibiotics, to which they would develop resistance as well in the future,'' Kwak pointed out. "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo.Do You

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