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Sure if you're willing to exclude the externalities. What's the societal cost of antibiotic resistant escherichia coli?
by steveax 10y ago
Sure if you're willing to exclude the externalities. What's the societal cost of antibiotic resistant escherichia coli?
- paulmd 10y agoThe US is fixing that problem. Starting December 2016, a vet must examine and prescribe antibiotics for each animal; it will no longer be allowable to preemptively dose an entire herd just to enhance production. http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/ucm449019.htm http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/DevelopmentApprovalProce... Obviously it doesn't fix it for China though, which is where a lot of the drug-resistant bugs are coming from...
- eru 10y agoThat's encouraging. I hope that regulation will have teeth.