Antibiotic In aquaculture

Cabello FC (2006) Heavy use of prophylactic antibiotics in aquaculture a growing problem for human and animal health and for the environment. Environ Microbiol 8(7) 1137-1144... 

Increased awareness from consumers and producers has resulted in calls for more responsible and sustainable aquaculture. Public opinion and regulation authorities in most export countries focus now on the misuse of antibiotics in aquaculture, and public attention has focussed on alternative production methods (Verbeeke, 2001 Feedinfo, 2005). Furthermore, the EU has banned all antibiotic growth promoters (AGPs) from livestock production since January 2006, as the use of low level AGPs in animal feeds carries the possibility of resistance transfer from the bacterial community to species that are pathogenic in humans (Liem, 2004). 

Antibiotics in aquaculture reducing their use and maintaining their efficacy... 

I wish to acknowledge the part played in the genesis of the chapter by that inspirational scientist, the late Tony Ellis. In 1990, in a bar in Santiago, he urged me to focus my mind on antibiotics in aquaculture and in another bar, on a Greek island in 2006, he asked what I thought the problems were and listened to my attempt to answer until long after the sun had set. 

FAO (2005), Responsible use of antibiotics in aquaculture , FAO Fisheries Technical Paper No. 469, Rome. 

SERRANO, p.H. (2005) Responsible Use of Antibiotics in Aquaculture. FAO fisheries Technical Paper 469, Rome, p. 97. 

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