date:Jun 30, 2014
n contamination during chicken production, processing or delivery and distribution. The rate of fluoroquinolone resistant E. coli found is consistent with environmental contamination, and roughly equivalent to the rate of fluoroquinolone resistance that would be seen in the human population in Australia.
The ACMF said the poultry industry is strongly supportive of Australias cautious approach to the use of antibiotics in food producing animals and actively promotes the judicious use of antibiot