HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH RISKS FROM ANTIMICROBIALLY RESISTANT BACTERIA IN FOOD ANIMAL PRODUCTION SYSTEMS

2006 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Animal Production ◽  
Resistant Bacteria ◽  
Environmental Health Risks ◽  
Food Animal ◽  
Animal Production Systems

Spread of Antibiotic Resistance in Food Animal Production Systems

2017 ◽  
pp. 105-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.A. Gebreyes ◽  
T. Wittum ◽  
G. Habing ◽  
W. Alali ◽  
M. Usui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Antibiotic Resistance ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Animal Production ◽  
Food Animal ◽  
Animal Production Systems

scholarly journals “What a Waste”—Can We Improve Sustainability of Food Animal Production Systems by Recycling Food Waste Streams into Animal Feed in an Era of Health, Climate, and Economic Crises?

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 7071
Author(s):  
Gerald C. Shurson
Keyword(s):  
Food Waste ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Animal Feed ◽  
The United States ◽  
Animal Production ◽  
Substantial Contribution ◽  
Waste Streams ◽  
Food Animal ◽  
Animal Production Systems

Food waste has been a major barrier to achieving global food security and environmental sustainability for many decades. Unfortunately, food waste has become an even bigger problem in many countries because of supply chain disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic and African Swine Fever epidemic. Although Japan and South Korea have been leaders in recycling food waste into animal feed, countries that produce much greater amounts of food waste, such as the United States and the European Union, have lagged far behind. Concerns about the risk of transmission of bacteria, prions, parasites, and viruses have been the main obstacles limiting the recycling of food waste streams containing animal-derived tissues into animal feed and have led to government regulations restricting this practice in the U.S. and EU. However, adequate thermal processing is effective for inactivating all biological agents of concern, perhaps except for prions from infected ruminant tissues. The tremendous opportunity for nitrogen and phosphorus resource recovery along with several other environmental benefits from recycling food waste streams and rendered animal by-products into animal feed have not been fully appreciated for their substantial contribution toward solving our climate crisis. It is time to revisit our global approach to improving economic and environmental sustainability by more efficiently utilizing the abundant supply of food waste and animal tissues to a greater extent in animal feed while protecting human and animal health in food animal production systems.

Development of a Salmonella cross-protective vaccine for food animal production systems

Vaccine ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas M. Heithoff ◽  
John K. House ◽  
Peter C. Thomson ◽  
Michael J. Mahan
Keyword(s):  
Production Systems ◽  
Animal Production ◽  
Food Animal ◽  
Animal Production Systems

scholarly journals Presence of tetracycline resistant bacteria and genes in grassland-based animal production systems

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliana López ◽  
Johanna Santamaría ◽  
Alexandra Sánchez ◽  
Lida Castro ◽  
Jessica L Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Production Systems ◽  
Animal Production ◽  
Resistant Bacteria ◽  
Animal Production Systems

scholarly journals Brazilian Citizens’ Opinions and Attitudes about Farm Animal Production Systems

Animals ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Yunes ◽  
Marina von Keyserlingk ◽  
Maria Hötzel
Keyword(s):  
Production Systems ◽  
Animal Production ◽  
Farm Animal ◽  
Animal Production Systems

scholarly journals Animal-based agriculture, phosphorus management and water quality in Brazil: options for the future

2006 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francirose Shigaki ◽  
Andrew Sharpley ◽  
Luís Ignácio Prochnow
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Poultry Manure ◽  
Agricultural Runoff ◽  
Animal Production ◽  
Feed Additives ◽  
Poultry Production ◽  
The South ◽  
Transport Management ◽  
Animal Production Systems

Eutrophication has become a major threat to water quality in the U.S., Europe, and Australasia. In most cases, freshwater eutrophication is accelerated by increased inputs of phosphorus (P), of which agricultural runoff is now a major contributor, due to intensification of crop and animal production systems since the early 1990s'. Once little information is available on the impacts of Brazilian agriculture in water quality, recent changes in crop and animal production systems in Brazil were evaluated in the context of probable implications of the fate of P in agriculture. Between 1993 and 2003, there was 33% increase in the number of housed animals (i.e., beef, dairy cows, swine, and poultry), most in the South Region (i.e., Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, and Santa Catarina States), where 43 and 49% of Brazil's swine and poultry production is located, respectively. Although grazing-based beef production is the major animal production system in Brazil, it is an extensive system, where manure is deposited over grazed pastures; confined swine and poultry are intensive systems, producing large amounts of manure in small areas, which can be considered a manageable resource. This discussion will focus on swine and poultry farming. Based on average swine (100 kg) and poultry weights (1.3 kg), daily manure production (4.90 and 0.055 kg per swine and poultry animal unit, respectively), and manure P content (40 and 24 g kg-1 for swine and poultry, respectively), an estimated 2.5 million tones of P in swine and poultry manure were produced in 2003. Mostly in the South and Southeast regions of Brazil (62%), which represent only 18% of the country's land area. In the context of crop P requirements, there was 2.6 times more P produced in manure (1.08 million tones) than applied as fertilizer (0.42 million tonnes) in South Brazil in 2003. If it is assumed that fertilizer P use represents P added to meet crop needs and accounts for P sorbed by soil in unavailable forms each year, if swine and poultry manure were to replace fertilizer, there would be an annual P surplus of 0.66 million tonnes in the South region alone. These approximations and estimates highlight that, similarly to other parts of the world, there is a potential for surplus P to quickly accumulate in certain regions of Brazil. Unless measures are developed and implemented to utilize manure P, repeated annual surpluses will create an increasingly difficult problem to solve. These measures can be grouped as source and transport management. Source management attempts to decrease dietary P, use feed additives, manure treatment and composting, as well as careful management of the rate, timing, and method of manure applications. Transport management attempts to control the loss of P in runoff from soil to sensitive waters via use of conservation tillage, buffer or riparian zones, cover crops, and trapping ponds or wetlands. These measures are discussed in the contest of Brazil's climate, topography, and land use, and how successful remediation programs may be implemented at farm and watershed level.

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