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DANMAP

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DANMAP
Danish Integrated Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring and Research Programme, established by the Danish government to monitor antimicrobial resistance in food animals.
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This is incorrect, and indeed the latest DANMAP report (Danish Integrated Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring and Research Program 2006) indicates that therapeutic antibiotic use in agriculture now exceeds the amount of antibiotics that were used to promote feed conversion before a ban on antibiotic growth promotion.
Environmental Health Impacts of CAFOs by Wagstrom, Liz / Environmental Health Perspectives
Monitoring of antimicrobial drug resistance and a range of research activities related to DANMAP have contributed to restrictions or bans of use of several antimicrobial agents in food animals in Denmark and other European Union countries.
Danish integrated antimicrobial resistance monitoring and research ... by Hammerum, Anette M.; Heuer, Ole E.; Emborg, Hanne-Dorthe; Bagger-Skjot, Line; Jensen, Vibeke F.; Rog / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Year Antibiotic use (kg) Swine produced 1994 207,000 21,000,000 1997 160,000 22,000,000 2005 114,000 26,000,000 Data from DANMAP (2006).
CAFOs: Thorne responds by Thorne, Peter S. / Environmental Health Perspectives
 
 
 
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