New Zealand’s Food Safety Agency says it is going to do more work on “inconclusive’ research on whether our health might be at some risk from the routine use of antibioticsfed to chicken on poultry farms. But it has no plans to alert us to this.
This emerged when the Primary Production select committee this morning quizzed Food Safety Minister Kate Wilkinson on her departmental estimates. It seems NZFSA has twice reviewed the widespread use of antibiotics on poultry farms and whether this might have impacts on humans. Today an official could only say the results were inconclusive and more research will be done. Though not urgently, perhaps starting in six months.
Some might consider this to be playing chicken with peoples’ health?
Headline should ahve been “nothing poultry aanout this”.
Headline should have been “nothing poultry about this”.
So when were the first two reviews completed?
clearly since November 2008 bk, otherwise Labour would have sorted it out themselves.
Does this mean that Labour is now taking antibiotic use seriously? After most of a decade of decrying Sue Kedgley?
Just as well I don’t eat chicken, otherwise you would have been making me sick for years.
“Just as well I don’t eat chicken, otherwise you would have been making me sick for years.”
Wow, after reading that absurd statement I know what it feels like to be right-wing.
On the other hand George D perhaps the antibiotics you would have/might have ingested while eating chicken may saved your life from swine flu
Who knows
It worked for the chickens
Wow, after reading that absurd statement I know what it feels like to be right-wing.
Huh? Antibiotic resistance is a very serious issue, and Labour’s attitude to the suffering of animals made me sick to the stoumach on many occasions.
How hard is it to get a answer on this blog? “So when were the first two reviews completed?”
I’ve have assumed that LabRats reply was tongue in cheek.
“How hard is it to get a answer on this blog?”
You know what they say bikerkiwi, no stupid questions, only stupid p_____.
George, you said that if you ate chicken Labour would be making you sick. Labour has not banned use of mercury from thermometers. If you ate thermometers, would Labour be making you sick?
You also said ‘otherwise’, implying you have not been made sick, and then said their policy made you sick – I think you are mixing metaphors.
If you ate thermometers, would Labour be making you sick?
The average New Zealander does not eat thermometers. The average New Zealander eats 38.8kg of poultry annually.
And yes, there’s probably a good case for regulating mercury thermometers.
Bikerkiwi, I don’t know when the other two reviews into the use of antiobotics on poultry farms but am asking for more information on this issue via some written PQs.