By Louis Anthony Cox

2006

Modeling the Human Health Impacts of Antibiotics Used in Food Animals

This book grew out of an effort to salvage a potentially useful idea for greatly simplifying traditional quantitative risk assessments of the human health consequences of using antibiotics  in food animals. In 2001, the United States FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) (FDA-CVM, 2001) published a risk assessment model for potential adverse human health consequences of using a  certain class of antibiotics, fluoroquinolones, to treat flocks of chickens with fatal  respiratory disease caused by infectious bacteria.