Antibiotics in everyday produce.

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Antibiotics Remaining in Everyday Produce Threaten Human Health

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By Kim Rahn

Staff 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.

 

 

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