Antimicrobial use and resistance in food animal production: food safety and associated concerns in Sub-Saharan Africa / Uso de antimicrobianos y resistencia en la producción animal para consumo humano: inocuidad de los alimentos y preocupaciones asociadas en el África subsahariana
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em Inglês
| IBECS (Espanha) | ID: ibc-230240
The use of antimicrobials in foodanimal (FA) production is a common practice all over the world, with even greater usage and dependence in the developing world, including Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, this practice which serves obvious economic benefits to producers has raised public health concerns over the last decades, thus driving the selection and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance and adversely impacting food safety and environmental health. This review presents the current and comprehensive antimicrobial usage practices in foodanimalproduction across SSA. We further highlighted the overall regional drivers as well as the public health, environmental, and economic impact of antimicrobial use in the production of foodanimals. Antimicrobial use is likely to increase with even exacerbated outcomes unless cost-effective, safe, and sustainable alternatives to antibiotics, especially probiotics, prebiotics, bacteriocins, antimicrobial peptides, bacteriophages, vaccines, etc. are urgently advocated for and used in foodanimalproduction in SSA. These, in addition to the implementation of strong legislation on antimicrobial use, and improved hygienewill help mitigate the public health concerns associated with antimicrobial use in foodanimals and improve the well-being and safety of foodanimals and their products.(AU)