Does Antibiotic Usage in Animal and Plant Farm Really Become a Major Contributor in Human Antimicrobial Resistance Challenges?

Abstract

Antibiotic feeding supplement has been used worldwide in agricultural setting. The use of such antibiotics are also found in animal farm and aquaculture. It has been well known that microbes can be found anywhere. Similar to what happen to humans, animals can also get infected by certain microbes that can yield infectious diseases. This might result the use of antibiotics to treat this sick animals. The use of antibiotics in animal feeding to prevent and control common diseases must be taken into consideration since this might influent the sensitivity of the antibiotics used. Inside the animal’s body, antibiotic will spread out to the whole part of the body . It will be metabolized and excreted into the environment through animal’s faeces and urine. Depending on the half time of the antibiotic, some parts of the antibiotic might remain in the animal’s muscles and organs and eventually will be found in food animal products such as meat, milk, and eggs. This particular antibiotic might be sustained in the food animal and animal products prior serving, although there are possibility that the antibiotic might be disrupted by environmental conditions during storage, or disrupted during preserving process.