FSSAI sets stricter rule for antibiotics in food items"If enforced strictly, the regulations will ensure safer food products for consumers by setting stricter residue and contaminant limits acr...
04 Nov, 2024, 12.01 AM IST
Can Kerala's antibiotic abuse project inspire India's antimicrobial resistance fight?In 2019, nearly 300,000 deaths in India were due to AMR. Over 1 million deaths were linked to drug resistance, making infections more chall...
17 Feb, 2024, 11.08 PM IST
Antibiotic resistance, death of bees & loss of organic carbon: Zerodha founder Nithin Kamath's green warning to the worldNithin Kamath, founder and CEO of Zerodha, has shared alarming facts about sustainability and the environment. He highlighted the dangers o...
18 Sep, 2023, 03.43 PM IST
Intensive farming may increase risk of epidemics, scientists warnThe scientists, including those from the University of Sheffield in the UK, said overuse of antibiotics, high animal numbers, and low genet...
06 May, 2020, 05.08 PM IST
- India among hotspots of antibiotic resistance in animals: Study20 Sep, 2019, 02.14 PM IST
Antibiotic resistance in food-animals growingIndia, long associated with the spread of superbug New Delhi metallo-beta lactamase-1 and extensively drug-resistance tuberculosis, has now...
20 Sep, 2019, 10.19 AM IST
Plants transmitting superbugs to humans?24 Jun, 2019, 01.30 PM IST
You could get to eat ‘clean’ meat in India by next yearICT has joined hands with The Good Food Institute to establish a lab facility in Mumbai by 2020.
18 Feb, 2019, 02.57 PM IST
Food regulator to curb use of antibiotics in food itemsOnce the new regulation is in place, FSSAI will do surprise inspections and random sampling to check such products do not contain antibioti...
01 Aug, 2018, 10.37 AM IST
Antibiotic use in poultry sector rampant: CSECSE yesterday slammed the All India Poultry Development and Services Private Limited for its advertisement and said it was "complete misrep...
28 Feb, 2018, 12.42 PM IST
Health ministry moves to limit antibiotics in meatThe ministry has specified the maximum permissible limits of various antibiotics in meat products.
20 Nov, 2017, 11.55 PM IST
Overuse of antibiotics in animals to worsen India’s AMR problem: StudyIndia is expected to see an 82% increase in consumption of antibiotics in “food animals” from 2,633 tons of antibiotics in 2013, showed a n...
29 Sep, 2017, 11.26 PM IST
Livestock with superbugs pose threat to human healthThe study, led by O R Vinodh Kumar, has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Microbiology.
30 Mar, 2017, 11.39 AM IST
A newly-discovered antibiotic-resistant gene opens new front in the war against superbugsFirst identified in China last November, the gene has since been discovered in livestock, water, meat and vegetables for human consumption ...
11 Apr, 2016, 09.21 AM IST
Eating chicken could make you immune to antibiotics: CSE reportAfter a researcher conducted a study on antibiotic resistance at his hospital, they found about 10% of the patients to be resistant to comm...
31 Jul, 2014, 12.03 PM IST
Centre directs state governments to stop the use of antibiotics and hormones in animal feedConsumption of antibiotic contaminated meat, milk and eggs may develop antibiotic resistance in both animals and human beings.
09 Jun, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
- Artificial meat: An answer to food crisis or a health hazard?
'Do we really need artificial meat?' The current meat production rate would not suffice to meet the demands of agrowing population 20 yrs h...
22 Mar, 2012, 10.39 PM IST