Health Ministry bans Colistin in Animal Food Industry

Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has banned manufacture, sale and distribution of antibiotic, Colistin as well as its formulations for food producing animals, poultry, aqua farming and animal feed supplements. The ban is announced in a bid to preserve drug’s efficacy in humans. What is Colistin? It is a valuable, last-resort antibiotic that ..

Month: Current Affairs - July, 2019

Category: Environment Current Affairs

Topics: Antibiotic resistance • Colistin Ban • colistin-resistant bacteria • Drug Technical Advisory Board • Drugs and Cosmetics Act 1940 • polymyxin E • Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Union Government bans Colistion in animal food industry

In a bid to preserve the drug’s efficacy in humans, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has banned the manufacture, sale and distribution of Colistin and its formulations for food-producing animals, poultry, aqua farming and animal feed supplements. The ban has been imposed under provisions of section 26A of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act ..

Topics: Antibiotic resistance • Antibiotic use in livestock • Antimicrobial resistance • colistin • Cyclic peptides • Drug resistance • Evolutionary biology • Health • Medicine • Pharmaceuticals policy • Veterinary medicine

Access to Antibiotics

The report by the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP) in the US has made the following observations about the antibiotics and their access: Majority of the world’s annual 5.7 million antibiotic-treatable deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. In low- and middle-income countries the mortality burden from treatable bacterial infections far exceeds the estimated ..

Month: Current Affairs - April, 2019

Topics: Antibiotic resistance • antibiotics • CDDEP • Center for Disease Dynamics Economics & Policy • low income countries • middle income countries • sub-Saharan Africa • USA

Bacteria can spread antibiotic resistance through soil: study

Researchers including one of Indian origin from North Carolina State University in US have found that antibiotic resistance can be passed between bacteria found in the soil. They also have found that spreading manure on ground as fertiliser can also spread antibiotic resistance to bacteria in the soil. Reasons for spread of antibiotic resistance through ..

Month: Current Affairs - October, 2017

Topics: Antibiotic resistance • Science and Technology • US

Vaccine shows protection against gonorrhea for first time: Scientists

Scientists from New Zealand for the first time have claimed that vaccine can protect against the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhoea. They have found that Men B jab vaccine originally developed to stop an outbreak of meningitis B can protect from gonorrhoea. Key Facts Scientists claim was based on analysis of vaccination data of about a ..

Month: Current Affairs - July, 2017

Topics: Antibiotic resistance • Diseases • Gonorrhea • International • New Zealand • Public health • Science and Technology