As Europe continues to recoil at the “horseburger” scandal, focusing minds on the risks in long food-production chains, a new study has found that high use of antibiotics in Chinese pig farms is producing antibiotic-resistant genes that pose “a potential worldwide human health risk.”
The “unchecked” use of antibiotics in Chinese farms poses risks that “may spread worldwide through manure and fertilizer run-off,” according to an article in The Conversation, a journal funded by more than a dozen Australian universities.