Antibiotic Residues
Level 4 — Significant concerns
Antibiotic Residues is a other additive listed in the FDA food-additive database.
Also: growth-promoting antibiotics, subtherapeutic antibiotics, tetracyclines (livestock), monensin
Where you'll see it
conventional meat, poultry, dairy, farmed fish from CAFOs
What the research says
50% of US antibiotics in 2014 went to livestock; only 20% to humans. Subtherapeutic antibiotics survive slaughter, reach the human gut, drive intestinal dysbiosis (Firmicutes overgrowth, Bacteroides decline), leaky gut, inflammation, and metabolic syndrome. They have also produced antibiotic-resistant C. difficile strains adapted to high-sugar processed food.
[metabolical] 50% of US antibiotics in 2014 went to livestock; only 20% to humans. Subtherapeutic antibiotics survive slaughter, reach the human gut, drive intestinal dysbiosis (Firmicutes overgrowth, Bacteroides decline), leaky gut, inflammation, and metabolic syndrome. They have also produced antibiotic-resistant C. difficile strains adapted to high-sugar processed food.
Regulatory status
- Notes: From enrichment source only, not in Winter Dictionary
Sources
- Metabolical (Lustig) — Chapter 20: of the antibiotics sold in 2014, 50 percent were for use on livestock and poultry; only 20 percent were for human use. Those antibiotics given to animals survive slaughter and processing, and are then delivered to our intestines