studies by CDDEP
researchers have projected
that antimicrobial
consumption in food
animal production will rise
globally by 67 percent by
2030, including more than
a tripling of use in India.
A scientific study
published during 2016 in
PLOS Medicine Journal
estimated that AMR could
cause 10 million deaths a
year by 2050.
Antimicrobial resistance
threat is real and no longer
limited to the over the
counter availability factor.
The non-therapeutic use of
antibiotics, including in
livestock and fisheries
industries has a huge
passive effect on the
human health. Just that it
has been largely unnoticed
doesn’t mean it doesn’t
happen or have any effect
on sick.
A new study published in
the journal 'Science' by
researchers at the CDDEP
in New Delhi and partners
have predicted 82 percent
A scientific study published during 2016 in
PLOS Medicine Journal estimated that
AMR could cause 10 million deaths a year
by 2050. Antimicrobial resistance threat is
real and no longer limited to the over the
counter availability factor.
increase in antibiotic
consumption in India by
2030. While India
reported using 2,633 tons
of antibiotics in food
animals in 2013, the
researchers predict that
this is likely to soar by 82
percent by 2030.
country has a huge
unregulated livestock
sector that freely uses
these drugs which are
easily accessible. Two-
thirds of poultry farms in
Punjab, for example, still
use antibiotics for growth
promotion. Such farms
also reported high levels of
multidrug resistant
bacteria which can easily
escape into the
environment. We are
losing medically important
antibiotics at a very fast
pace.”
“India is the fourth largest
consumer of antibiotics in
animal food production
globally and is on an
increasingly dangerous
path. We must remove
antibiotics from the
human food chain, except
to treat sick animals, or
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face the increasingly real
pOLicY decisiOns
prospect of a post-
antibiotic world,” CDDEP in indiA
The Indian Council of
Director Ramanan
Laxminarayan warns, “The Medical Research (ICMR)
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