Farm-to-food study aims to understand the effect of manure management practices on antibiotic resistance and residues
Tuesday, June 7, 2016 - 07:31
in Health & Medicine
Researchers from four U.S. universities are teaming up with dairy farms across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic to study the effect of three different manure management techniques on preventing the occurrence and spread of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria, genes tied to resistance, and antibiotic residues—traces of antibiotics and the compounds they break down into.