Re: News - Regulators should ban poultry feed additive

Indiscriminate use of Antimicrobial drugs exposes the public’s health at risk. Despite the safe withdrawal period recommended is not followed strictly by end users. Moreover, oversight of fundamental problem like birds eating their own pings and regaining antimicrobial salt during the five days before slaughter when their feed is supposed to be entirely free from antimicrobial salt is not avoidable.

Only solution is by replacing Antimicrobial drugs and Antibiotic Growth Promoters with acidifier and probiotics as feed additives.

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Please also consider health, life and welfare of poultry. If you ban all the antibiotics for poultry, mortality rate will increase thus veterinarian with use more antibiotics at therapeutics levels. Only considering human race, who has means and brain to understand the dangers of this kind, is cruel for animals. Animals totally depend upon human for their welfare.

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Dear All those involved in the Animal Health Industry,
Total ban of any product or category o products is not a correct scientific decision.
Each product to be analysed independantly and to be decided. Nicarbazine is known for years to be harmful to the humans. That is to be banned.
But one thing is the most important. If a drug is known for its side effects or harmful effects and is proven then all the coutries in the world should ban that product. If someone is found still marketing or selling that person is to be punished severely and to be debarred forever in the industry. Any decision in isolation does not work effectively please. There is a need to have a code of conduct for all countries.

Dr. A. B. Reddy

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The fundamental problem is that the recommendations do not stop bored chickens eating their own pings and recycling icarbazin during the five days before slaughter when their feed is supposed to be entirely free from it. - REF.- 1.

By issuing a pathetic leaflet instead of demanding a ban on the poultry feed additive nicarbazin, you are failing in your most fundamental duty to protect consumers from dangerous chemicals in food. - REF. - 2.


THERE ARE TWO CONTENDING AND FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES TO BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION IN THIS FORUM: THE FOOD STANDARDS AGENCY (FSA) AND THE INDUSTRY (REF - 1, ABOVE) SECONDLY, THE SOIL ASSOCIATION (SA)S POLICY ADVISER, RICHARD YOUNGS LETTER TO THE FSA OUTGOING CHAIR(REF - 2, ABOVE).


NOW, THE BONE OF CONTENTION, PIN-POINTED THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE TWO BY WAY OF UNDERSTANDING THE ABOVE QUOTES CAREFULLY. RATHER THAN THE TWO POWERFUL REGULATORY BODIES BOOING AND JEERING AT EACH OTHER, THEY SHOULD CLOSE RANKS AND ENDEAVOUR TO EMBARK ON ANOTHER TOXICOLOGICAL STUDIES THAT MEET TODAYS STANDARD THEREBY FINDING LASTING SOLUTION TO ACHIEVING THE MINIMUM PERCENTAGE LEVEL OF RESIDUES, NOT ABOVE THE OFFICIAL LIMITS.

WHILE WE ARE GUIDING AGAINST JEOPARDIZING THE HEALT OF POULTRY PRODUCTS CONSUMERS THE WORLD-OVER, WE SHOULD ALSO HAVE FEELINGS FOR THE INVESTIMENTS OF POULTRY FEED ADDITIVES MANUFACTURERS AND THEIR WORKERS BY MAKING IT COMPULSORY FOR THEM TO PARTAKE IN THE MEGA TOXICOLOGICAL STUDIES TO ENHANCE THEIR BUSINESS CONTINUITY.

THEREFORE, WE SHOULD ALL IMPLORE THE STAKEHOLDERS AND THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE POULTRY PRODUCING NATIONS LIKE THE NETHERLANDS, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, CANADA, HOLLAND, ET AL TO JOIN ENGORMIX IN THIS VANGUARD TO FORM A FRONT IN PUTTTING AN END TO THIS DANGEROUS TREND. HOWEVER, WE SHOULD REMEMBER TO RESPECT THE OPINION OF THE WORLD REPRESENTATIVES NOTION, NOT TO BE CRUEL TO THE ANIMALS. LET US SHOW SOME LOVE! THANK YOU FOR TAKING YOUR TIME.

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Thanks a lot for this important data.

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At present day, poultry production has become a challenging job to produce a safe consuming product. The use of antibiotics and antibiotic growth promoters has become a come practice, which has no doubt, advantages as well as disadvantages. However the residues of these antibiotics are a hazard to the consumers.
Like the indiscriminate use of diclofenic sodium in the cattle almost eliminated the vulture breed in these areas.
The use of antibiotic additives in poultry feed should either be banned or strict regulation should be implemented.

Dr. Saadat Ali Changezi

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The headline is a surprise! Additives cover a whole range of applications, which ones are we talking about? If we are talking about AGPs there are good reasons to support it but probably as many to oppose it - additionally, antibiotic free farming has proved to be more challenging and more expensive. Would regulators be able to financially support the extra burden if all drugs are just taken out? What is required is curb the indiscriminate use of such kind of products which can have an impact on the health status of the end user, that is human... but then again, do the regulators have the capability of monitoring if such curbs are being followed strictly? I think we have a long debate waiting on this and a decision just like that cannot be taken.

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Ionophores such as nicarbazin are unique, because they allow for a small percentage of coccidial infestation in the intestines of the bird to enable the bird to develop a certain level of immunity. This contributes to much better cell-mediated immunity against the parasite and is more effective as a method of control. However, these recent developments were still not able to address the issue of resistance, and soon enough, resistance was reported to each of the ionophores available in the industry. Today there exists no ionophores against which coccidia have not developed resistance.

Another downfall of using anticoccidial drugs such as nicabazin is the residual effects in the poultry meat and eggs. This poses a problem for producers who wish to export their produce to countries where demands for drug and residue-free chicken meat and eggs are on the rise.

Perhaps there is a better way? A natural, non-drug way of preventing and controlling coccidiosis that can meet producer as well as consumer demands?

A natural, oregano-based phytobiotic feed additive called Orego-Stim® has been found to be able to control coccidiosis in all phases of poultry production. To effectively control coccidiosis, the phenolic compounds within oregano speed up the process of the normal shedding of enterocytes from the intestinal mucosae, causing a disruption in the life cycle of Eimeria spp. and as a result, the protozoa are not able to complete their life cycle to cause clinical disease. On the other hand, it encourages the building up of immunity against coccidiosis, by allowing small amounts of oocysts to undergo and complete their lifecycle in the intestinal cells, which is quite similar to nicarbazin.

However, in contrast to nicarbazin and other ionophore coccidiostats, there has been no evidence of bacterial or coccidial resistance from using oregano essential oil. There are no residues found in the meat or eggs and moreover it is a natural plant extract. Hence, there is no withdrawal period and so it can be safely used right until the slaughter period.

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Dear colleagues,

It has been a sudden skewness to ban the antimicrobial poultry feed additives containing gut- acting antibiotics. Why was it not an issue and the research banned to create them, when these products were created after a long tryst in the past decades? Resistance is a normal term in science since antimicrobials were created, and everyone knew about it at that time as well. Above all, there have been only theoretical implications which are yet to be proven.

Above all, the non- antibiotic based products have not made any phenomenal progress to be able to practically substitute these feed additives. It is in fact a drive to save this industry from eloping, which has been able to do much so far.

An example is the banning of fluoroquinolones in the therapy segment has been quite detrimental in the poultry farming, as there is no substitute to it even today. On the darker side, these indiscriminate banning procedures, and other malpractices by the consumers of the banned countries to get it somehow from the producers to save their souls. This has been very true for the tropical and the third world countries, where these diseases are rampant going without the notice of the authorities who are actually taking decisions from across seven seas!

Precisely, banning will not be any solution to overcome resistance which is a consequence of many other artificially created factors e.g. genetic engineering. We hope that the regularly authorities will be prudent enough to avoid any such decision before we go for a more acute pathogenic world..

Best wishes

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Come on , get this right. Nicarbazin is NOT an ionophore. Even if there is widespread resistance to ionophores we can still use them effectively and get good control. shuttle and rotation programs work quite well. besides this, there are NO drugs even faintly related to uionophores used in human medicine.
There are nor eal alternatives to this sort of control in broiler chickens at present so removing them would cause immense morbidity and mortlaity in chicken production - is this a desired outcome?

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You can observe taht how vultures are waiting on the top branches of trees, that a total ban be imposed on use of antibiotics and anticoccidial drugs on poultry so that they can sell their unethical products that do not have any scientific data or concrete research back ground. This is horrofic to know that so called scientists are thining about only the superior race, the humans but their consideration about other species, as ususal is zero. You can observe how few humans are killing whales to satisfy the palates of a very small number of humans (0.00003% of total human population).

Please note, if you ban the use of prophylactic antibiotics without any solid alternative plan, we will end up with more disease and mortalities and that will push production cost to more than double. You must know that 20% of the world human population get benefitted from poultry, eating a cheap and good soruce of protein.

With more disease use of antibiotics at theraputic levels will also increase, hence more high levels of antibiotics in the meat.

It is more rationale to use antibiotics at prophylactic levels as compare to theraputic levels. The ratio of antibiotic resistant bacteria related deaths are far below or rather recorded cases are very few to consider a total ban without a detailed study of the issue or without suggesting a sustainable alternative plan.

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In use of AGP there are advantages and disadvantages.Once it is allowed,indiscriminate uses are bound to happen and there are no ways to control it or stop it.Best way is to promote uses of probiotics.If probiotics are used right from the begining there are chances that you may not required to go for antibiotics.Moreover unlike antibiotics, there are no disadvantages with probiotics.

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total ban on the use of antimicrobial drugs will lead to increase cost of production. however drugs that have harmful neffect on man should be ban. the most interesting issue is that while the develeped countries(producer of these drugs) banned the use of these lethagic drugs ion their countries while they are exporting these drugs to other countries. for effectivbe ban on any carcinogenic drugs, effort should be made to outrightly ban thje producvtion of these drugs while acidifiers, probiotics & herbal products should be introiduced

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