Growth hormones in chicken are destroyed during cooking. Chicken-bjaka: approved antibiotics were found in Russian chicken.

Why did I suddenly write this article? To write an article about the dangers of factory chicken meat, I was prompted by a letter, yes it was a letter. Today I opened the mail and there the mailing from Avaaz.org, they collect signatures about the prohibition of antibiotics in poultry meat. About the dangers of meat from the poultry farm there is a lot of controversy, some are convinced that such meat is absolutely harmless, others say it is almost " hormonal antibiotic-synthetic-vitamin "piece in your plate, which notably ruins your health. Let's try to figure it out. I even made a small infographic dedicated to this issue

What chickens stuffed:

Growth hormones (added to food and kolyat), Antibiotics (pricked and added to food), synthetic vitamins (to food), other hormones.

Right now a few facts

A chicken at a poultry farm grows 45 days, while a bird from its farmstead is growing for at least 6 months (so that it gains a little weight). Feel the difference? Four and a half months.

Why such a scatter? Yes, all for the same reason. Growth hormones. This story was told to me by one person who worked for one of our poultry farms throughout the year ...

Chickens are injected with antibiotics, they are fed a lot (including growth hormones), but still it is not possible to gain such weight. When a hen lacks weight, it (the broiler) intensively starts to give hormones. When they kill chickens, they have a viscous mass instead of a liver. e killing the liver, completely.

Chickens are pricked with antibiotics and this is an indisputable fact. In order for chickens not to hurt them, they are cut off. There is information that when checking chickens for harmful substances, it was discovered there 4 human doses of antibiotics.

Why are antibiotics in chicken meat harmful to the body?

The fact is that when you consume such meat, the human body begins to get used to antibiotics, its immune system simply ceases to perceive them. If you suddenly need antibiotic treatment, they may not work on you. The organization is resistant to them. perceives. I think there is no need to explain how this may threaten you.

These antibiotics are used to grow broiler chickens:

enrofloxacin
hydrotrime
neomycin sulfate
lemon acid
amoxicillin
dolink
tetracycline
rex vital
palsy
doxycol
clinker coke
salinopharm

What causes the use of antibiotic meat:

• Insensitivity of the human body to antibiotics
• Allergies
• Antibiotics are the main enemies of our beneficial bacteria in the gut, and this is dysbacteriosis and digestive disorders

Why are hormones in poultry meat harmful to human health?

Hormones in poultry meat are also added, this explains such a powerful growth of poultry. Over a month and a half a few kilograms of weight. Hormones are pricked, they are added to feed.

Having rummaged on the Internet has found some hormones with which probably chickens are stuffed (these hormones are allowed and freely sold in veterinary pharmacies)

• Nucleopeptide - growth stimulator of animals (not chickens)
• Microvitam - growth stimulator
• Roktopamine - pig growth and cow growth

What causes the use of hormonal meat:

• Infertility
• Allergies, because hormones reduce the amount of cortisol (produced by the adrenal glands), which fights allergies
• Obesity
• Hormonal diseases
• Increase the risk of developing tumor diseases

And in America in general, the darkness ... ..

Cows are called extradiol, testosterone, synthetic hormones (zeranol, melengestrol, trenbolone). By the way, about trenbolone, they need athletes to gain muscle mass (though they have potency and health ... ..). Americans from early childhood eat a hormonal meat cocktail. Fat this is one of the dangers of hormones.

But back to our sheep, sorry chickens.

Why is the factory chicken meat so tender?

About for these purposes starch, soy flour, salty broth, phosphates are used. They just pumped chicken from the factory. Pleasant appetite =)

As if I was not convinced that the meat of chicken is safe, I will stay with my opinion. Make your own conclusions. And below is a small infographic made by me according to the above

Meat products should be in the diet of each of us and even nutritionists agree with this statement. With the right choice  any kind of meat will be useful, it is only important to choose a good quality product. Chicken meat can be eaten in larger quantities than pork or beef, and all because of the easy absorption of the product by the body. Only fish can become a serious competitor to chicken, but there is fish every day, nutritionists do not recommend.

Chicken Meat: Benefit or Harm

Chicken meat is truly a storehouse of animal protein, and the content of phosphorus and potassium required by the body is much higher compared to the presence of similar substances in other meats. The most useful part of chicken is chicken breast - a dietary product. Chicken meat also contains protein, magnesium and iron. But the lack of carbohydrates and fatty tissue allows you to use chicken meat, even those who are on a diet. Despite the low calorie content, a chicken breast meal will energize you for a long time.

However, against the background of the high usefulness of chicken meat, many of us have heard that in meat, which is sold in supermarkets, there are hormones and antibiotics. Unfortunately, such an event can really take place, because the bird, like people, is treated with antibiotics. Still, it is necessary to fight against pathogenic bacteria in poultry farms, and dangerous diseaseas salmonella, which can be overcome only with antibiotics.

When the period of rapid growth comes, animals are given injections of hormones. As a result, the poultry's metabolism improves, and chickens grow much faster. If 50 years ago the chicken became a full-fledged chicken in 70 days, now it is enough 48 days. In addition, the chicken "menu" is enriched with drugs and vitamins for the prevention of different diseases. Unlike heavy metals, antibiotics do not accumulate in the body, and after 7-10 days are completely removed. The only question is whether all farms maintain such a “pause”.

How to use chicken meat is not to the detriment of health

Despite the fact that the presence of antibiotics of the tetracycline group and stimulating hormones in chicken meat still can occur, with proper processing of chicken meat will not harm your health.

do not buy chicken offal such as liver and kidneys - they contain a large proportion of all harmful substances;

remove the skin from the chicken, when not only boil the broth, but also bake the chicken in the oven;

try to get chicken breast instead of hams, because antibiotics are concentrated in hams;

do not buy marinated meat - often marinate stale goods;

check the tightness of the packaging.

It will be useful to observe the rules of cooking chicken:

drain the first broth after 10-15 minutes of boiling;

soak the meat before cooking in salted water for 2-3 hours;

choose long-term heat treatment at temperatures above 100ºС;

be careful with the grilled chicken, as in the red meat near the bone can hide the source of intestinal problems.

MOSCOW, Jan 25  - RIA Novosti, Natalia Dembinskaya.The volume of chicken production in Russia is impressive: in the first six months of 2016 alone, about 2 million tons. Chicken is the traditional leader among Russian meat preferences. It accounts for the main volume of meat consumption in Russia - 51%. About 10% of production is exported. According to the statistical portal Index Mundi, Russia is among the world's largest exporters of poultry meat.

And that's what turned out: antibiotics were found in the meat of chickens from Russian producers - including those that are not regulated by Russian law.

These are the results of a study of broiler chickens carried out by the Russian quality system (Roskachestvo).

In total, experts examined 21 samples of the most popular brands of chilled broiler chickens among Russians in terms of 44 quality and safety indicators.

It turned out that every third chicken meets the requirements of quality and safety defined by the legislation. So, it can qualify for a Russian quality mark.

Violations were isolated: in two samples, the content of antibiotics of the tetracycline groups exceeded the permissible norms.

However, the experts of Roskoschestvo were concerned about something else: in nine samples, that is, in almost every second tested person, traces of antibiotics of such groups as nitrofurans, quinolones and coccidiostatics were found. Content in the production of such substances is regulated abroad, but so far no norms have been defined in Russia.

"A number of antibiotics - for example, the tetracycline group - is standardized, that is, some amount is allowed, and other types are not standardized, so manufacturers use them freely," the National Meat Association (IA) acknowledged.

Thus, the current Russian standards such product does not violate, but, as doctors warn, the health of consumers is not the best way.

Resistant microbes

Doctors recognize: all over the world, in any commercial cultivation of animals, fish, and birds, antibiotics are added to food as a drug that promotes growth. But as indicated by doctors, antibiotics that enter the human body along with the meat of an animal are bad, but not the worst.

The main problem is that they contribute to the formation of antibiotic-resistant microbes.

"Antibiotics for animals are used the same as in medicine for the treatment of patients. And if E. coli, which lives in humans and animals, in the process of contact with small low doses of antibiotics becomes resistant, then with the meat of this product a person receives resistant microbes. That is, with a real disease, this antibiotic will no longer work, "- explains Sergey Yakovlev, president of the interregional public organization" Alliance of Clinical Chemotherapists and Microbiologists ", professor of the Moscow State Medical University. THEM. Sechenov.

It is the abnormal use of antibiotics in animal husbandry and agriculture that is now considered one of the main causes of microbial resistance.

Whats chicken good

The way out of this situation, doctors see the following: to prohibit the use in animal husbandry of those drugs that are used to treat people. There is a group of antibiotics that are specially created for animal husbandry, and they should be used.

In the industry, however, they note that antibiotics are used not only for growth, but also for preservation: at a young age, chickens are very vulnerable to various viruses, "they say in IA.

The idea of ​​the separation of "human" and "chicken" drugs seems to be difficult to implement, indicating that the problem of resistance to antibiotics is complex because they are not rationally used in medicine, and in veterinary medicine, and in animal husbandry.

  “All potential antibiotics that are used in animal husbandry have already been reserved by the doctors for themselves, they need to treat people with something,” points out Yevgeny Lapinsky, head of the department of animal husbandry and veterinary medicine at the National Meat Association.

The main thing is the weight gain

The industry assures: the producers of the compound feed themselves to tricks. "They come to the poultry farm, bring their own food, and then they experiment: weight gain is better than last time, which is good. The secret is that they add antibiotics to the feed, but nobody knows about it," says Lapinsky.

He, however, does not hide the fact that all manufacturers are interested in the maximum weight gain, and the case is minimal. In the course are various drugs, including antibiotics.

Players nevertheless agree that the norms on the maximum permissible levels in the products, if not, must be. And control over the use of drugs must be strengthened.

The decline of the antibiotic era?

In Roskachestvo they said that they had already proposed to the relevant ministries and departments to change the existing standards. And doctors are confident that the state will listen to them. “In the United States and the European Union, they took control over the use of antibiotics, and this is also the case with us,” Yakovlev said

Meanwhile, experts point out that the problem of antibiotic resistance is far from new. It was just recently that they began to work on it and found out that bacteria eventually become immune to drugs.

This race began in 1928, when they invented the first antibiotic, penicillin. And with the advent of each new bacteria, like cockroaches, adapt and form signs of resistance to it.

Scientists recognize: farmers' wines are obvious here. Their goal is not only to protect animals from diseases, but also to make them thicker and larger. The problem is that the development of antibiotics has practically ceased to engage in pharmaceutical companies: the development of one such new drug costs about $ 1 million. Skeptics are sure: a grim future is not far off and a return to the “pre-antibiotic” era when to treat infectious diseases  there will be nothing, and any injury will become life-threatening.

The American consumer organization Consumer Reports *, in its report, Meat on Drugs, stated that reducing the effectiveness of antibiotics has become one of the main problems in American healthcare. According to information from the US National Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2002 in the United States, 99,000 people died from nosocomial infections. And according to the American Society of Infectious Diseases, the vast majority of them were caused by resistant (antibiotic-resistant) bacteria.

Such “superbugs” that are resistant to one or more antibiotics, causing illness and even death, are also found in food. Unfortunately, at the moment it is the last year for which information is available from foreign colleagues. Doctors and scientists have long been sounding the alarm and calling for more cautious use of antibiotics so that the pathogenic bacteria do not acquire greater and greater immunity for them.

Antibiotic resistance is no longer just a health issue. It directly affects the consumer who may become ill (infected) through a food product. Such diseases in the United States occur annually in 48 million people, of whom 128,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths are recorded. If a person gets sick by eating raw or poorly cooked, for example, chicken meat infected with pathogenic bacteria such as salmonella, then it may well happen that this salmonella will turn out to be a stable “superbug” that can resist one or several antibiotics. Treatment, in this case, is difficult.

Examination of chicken meat, conducted by the American Consumer Reports in 2010, showed that 2/3 of the samples sold in their retail were infected with salmonella or campylobacter (another pathogen), and, most importantly, 60 percent of these bacteria were resistant to antibiotics!

In Russia, the situation is no less alarming. Studies of the safety of chicken meat in 2011, carried out by OZPP, showed that at least 30 percent of broiler chickens sold in the trading network were infected with different serotypes (species) of salmonella.

And this indicator of infection, by the way, was somewhat dependent on the type of outlet - a hypermarket, a chain supermarket or individual small shops and open agricultural markets, as well as on the region of our country.

And almost did not depend on the thermal state of the meat - whether it was chilled or deep frozen. In hypermarkets and large supermarket chains, the infection rate was lower than in individual small shops and open agricultural markets. The north-western region of our country proved to be more unfavorable in this respect than the Central and Southern.

But if in America they speak openly about this problem, without being silent about the scale of the consumption of dangerous food or the consequences that have to be dealt with right now, then in Russia the topic of the use of antibiotics in agriculture is veiled diligently.

Moreover, a certain stereotyped image of domestic meat was created, as the most useful and safe, unlike foreign counterparts. And only recently, the chief sanitary doctor of Russia, Gennady Onishchenko, stated the need to impose a ban on non-therapeutic (non-medical) use of feed antibiotics in animal husbandry and poultry farming in the context of Russia's accession to the WTO.

As you know, there is no smoke without fire, and the fact that the head of the Rospotrebnadzor, in principle, voiced and expressed concern about the phenomenon of antibiotics in meat, already says a lot. It is not the first year that the Society for the Protection of Consumer Rights (OZPP) has initiated laboratory studies of chicken meat. And information about the detection in this product of high concentrations of antibiotic residues accompanied the study more than once.

Today, a wide range of modern antimicrobials (including antibiotics and coccidiostatics) are used in the cultivation of domestic agricultural animals and poultry, which, in addition to the direct therapeutic (drug) function, play the role of productivity stimulants, i.e. growth stimulant - says expert of the Consumer Rights Protection Society Roman Gaidashov. And there are about fifty of them. For example, nitrofurans and fluoroquinolones. In the analysis of meat products today they are confronted with them no less frequently than with tetracyclines.

Unfortunately, the main consumers of antibiotics today are not medical organizations, but meat and poultry producers, in order to prevent animal diseases when kept in unsanitary conditions and to accelerate the growth of livestock.

For clarity, I will cite one of the vivid examples that reflect the scale of the use of such drugs in growing broiler chickens. More precisely, its annual volume is based on several poultry farms belonging to the Company (let's call it N). This is the official open tender for the supply of veterinary drugs for the poultry industry, announced (published) on the manufacturer's website -N.

Medicines:

Enrofloxacin annual volume - 6500 l.

Glucose annual volume - 7 tons.

Hydrotrim annual volume - 2400 l.

- neomycin sulfate  the annual volume is 1500 kg.

Citric acid annual volume - 6000 kg.

Amoxicillin annual volume - 1200 kg.

Dolink annual volume - 1500 liters.

Tetracycline annual volume - 1800 kg.

Rex vital annual volume - 12,500 kg.

The colivet has an annual output of 550 kg.

Doksikol annual volume - 600 kg

Clinkobox annual volume - 8000 kg.

Salinopharm annual volume - 10,000 kg.

EXPLANATION: From the list of medicines listed in the tender, 10 items contain antibiotics as active substance  (highlighted yellow). Two drugs - clinker coke and salinopharm belong to the group of coccyostatics, and among the antibiotics also appear.

Some details:

Enrofloxacin (Enrofloxacin), which is part of enroxil, belongs to the group of fluoroquinolones and has a broad spectrum of antibacterial action, is active against gram-positive and gram-negative microorganisms

Glucose (Glykys) - nutrient in and in the component of blood replacement and anti-shock liquids

Hydrotrimp is a complex antibiotic that allows it to be used for chronic respiratory diseases. Tylosin, which is part of this drug, is a representative of macrolides that has a bacteriostatic effect

Neomycin sulfate (Neomycin) is an antibiotic that is formed during the life of a radiant fungus Streptomyces fradiae. 1 mg of the drug contains at least 680 μg of the active substance (calculated on the dry matter)

Citric Acid (Citric Acid) is a natural or synthetic antioxidant. Contained in many fruits: citrus, cranberries, pomegranates, pineapples. Registered as a dietary supplement

Amoxicillin (Amoxicillin) is a drug, an antibiotic with antibacterial bactericidal action. Antibacterial, bactericidal, acid-resistant agent wide spectrum  actions from the group of semi-synthetic penicillins.

Dolink Doxycycline - part of Dolinka semi-synthetic second-generation antibiotic of tetracyclines

Tetracycline (Tetracycline) - broad-spectrum antibiotic

Rex vital (Rex vital) - refers to the group of vitamins + trace elements

Kolivet - contains antibiotic colistin in the form of sulfate at a concentration of 120 million IU per 100 g of filler

Doksikol (Doxicol) - medicinal antibacterial drugintended for the treatment of diseases of bacterial and mycoplasmal etiology in pigs and poultry. The hiklat (hydrochloride), which is part of the drug doxycycline, is a semisynthetic antibiotic of the third generation of drugs of the tetracycline group.

Salinopharm - An anticoccidian drug (antibiotic), as the active substance contains 6% of the ionophoric antibiotic salinomycin sodium and auxiliary components.

Comments, as they say, are superfluous. However, in fairness, it should be said about the other side of the “medal”. A complete rejection of antimicrobial agents, in the current industrial environment, is also not real. Moreover, such a sharp failure can lead to outbreaks of infections transmitted to consumers through contaminated (infected) livestock and poultry products. Here we need to objectively evaluate, as well as reduce risks.

The consumer in this matter completely depends on the manufacturer's conscience: how carefully he watches for the timing of elimination of the introduced veterinary drugs from the body of an animal, for the time of slaughter and how efficiently the quality systems work in his company.

And in this issue, the main guarantor of security should be state control on the part of federal agencies and executive authorities. Which, alas, simply does not work.

But the replica chief Veterinary Inspector of the Russian Federation Nikolay Vlasov, who recently took part in the transfer of the Federal First Channel: “... Up to 60% of products circulating in the market do not meet the requirements of the Russian Federation. Domestic products ... When analyzing one of the carcasses, four full human doses of antibiotics were found. If you eat such meat day after day, you will be immune to most drugs. It seems that this chicken broke into the veterinary pharmacy and ate everything that was there with hunger. No doctor in his right mind would ever prescribe such a dose to a chicken. ”

In order not to guess the coffee grounds, the editorial office QUALITY. RU addressed a number of questions about the current situation directly to the Rosselkhoznadzor of the Russian Federation. And here are the answers we received.

QUALITY .RU: - Is the use of antimicrobial agents as a growth factor permitted by law in Russia?

Alexey Alekseenko, Deputy Head of the Rosselkhoznadzor RF: - Not. In accordance with the Unified sanitary-epidemiological and hygienic requirements for goods subject to sanitary and epidemiological supervision (control), approved by the Decision of the Customs Union Commission dated May 28, 2010 No. 299, in the manufacture of food raw materials of animal origin, the use of veterinary drugs (feed additives, stimulants growth of animals, including hormonal drugs, veterinary medicines, including antibiotics), preparations for the treatment of animals, poultry, as well as preparations for the treatment of premises for their maintenance, not approved for use in accordance with the laws of the Member States of the customs union.

Of course, relying on the fact that no one would try to “cut corners” and quietly use productivity stimulants would be somewhat naive.

Control of the content of veterinary drugs, animal growth stimulants (including hormonal drugs), medicines (including antibiotics) used in livestock for fattening, treatment and prevention of livestock diseases is carried out - based on information on their use provided by the manufacturer ( supplier of food raw materials and food products when they are imported into the territory of the Member States of the Customs Union or when delivered for processing in the established national legislation m of states - members of the customs union right.

The approved list of controlled residual veterinary drugs in food products is in the Uniform sanitary-epidemiological and hygienic requirements for goods subject to sanitary-epidemiological supervision (control), approved by the Decision of the Customs Union Commission of 28.05.2010 No. 299.

In order to control the balances drugs  in food products subordinate to the Rosselkhoznadzor, federal state budget institutions conduct laboratory studies within the framework of the state veterinary laboratory monitoring of residues of prohibited and harmful substances in the body of live animals, animal products, feed in the Russian Federation.

TO: - What is regulated and how is the use of antimicrobial drugs controlled?

A.A.: - The use of antibiotics for the treatment of farm animals is governed by instruction on the use of a particular drug and the appointment of a veterinarian. Control of the use of antibiotics for the treatment of farm animals, as well as the waiting time for the removal of drugs is assigned to the veterinary authorities of the subjects of the Russian Federation, and not the Rosselkhoznadzor.

TO.: - Are there any restrictions on antibiotics?

A.A.: - Of course. The creation of a list of a number of drugs prohibited for use in veterinary medicine was recently reviewed at a meeting of the working group on “Harmonization of sanitary-epidemiological and hygienic requirements” of the Eurasian Economic Commission.

The approved list of controlled residual veterinary drugs in meat products is in the Uniform sanitary-epidemiological and hygienic requirements for goods subject to sanitary-epidemiological supervision (control), approved by the Decision of the Customs Union Commission of 28.05.2010 No. 299.

TO.: - Are the requirements for imported and domestic products the same?

A.A.: - Safety standards established by the Unified sanitary-epidemiological and hygienic requirements for goods subject to sanitary-epidemiological supervision (control), approved by the Decision of the Commission of the Customs Union of 28.05.2010 No. 299, are equally applicable to both domestic and imported products. There is a difference in law enforcement. If we can take measures against exporters for violators, then the authorities of the subjects of the Federation should take measures against domestic violators.

TO.: - How is the monitoring done?

A.A.: - Upon arrival in the customs territory, samples are taken randomly from some batches (sampling frequency depends on the degree of risk) for laboratory analysis that may pose a real threat, taking into account the supplier’s country, the region and the particular enterprise.

The Rosselkhoznadzor has encountered, faces and will face with exceeding the norms of contaminants in meat products. Within the framework of the state veterinary laboratory monitoring of residues of prohibited and harmful substances in the body of live animals, animal products, feeds on the territory of the Russian Federation, antibiotics of the tetracycline group are most often detected in the products of animal origin.

TO.: - Is there a state control system for farms and personal farms (personal subsidiary farms)?

A.A.: - Theoretically - yes. In accordance with Federal Law No. 294-ФЗ dated December 26, 2008 “On the Protection of the Rights of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs in the Implementation of State Control (Supervision) and Municipal Control”, scheduled and unscheduled inspections of livestock enterprises are carried out. Hardly ever. Scheduled inspections in accordance with the same Federal Law can be carried out once every three years, unscheduled - only on the proposal of the prosecutor's office.

Unfortunately, the reliability of such control is almost zero. It is not by chance that, after boars, private farms are the main distributor of African swine fever (ASF).

TO.: - Are there any restrictions and controls on the turnover of veterinary products?

A.A.: - Exists. Only officially registered medicinal veterinary drugs can be sold. The specified activity is subject to compulsory licensing. The question is how effective this scheme is in terms of the fragmentation of the national veterinary service.

TO.:  What should happen to unsafe products?

A.A.: - Products must be removed from sale. Working with a retail network is not the responsibility of the Rosselkhoznadzor. This is the work of Rospotrebnadzor. Considering that animal products were obtained from animals, the Rosselkhoznadzor, in cooperation with the veterinary authorities of the Russian Federation, establishes the reason for the ingestion of animal drugs into animals, leading to an excess of the residual content of this substance in food. This is the scheme. And, by the way, far from perfect.

When revealing residues of prohibited and harmful substances in products of animal origin, the competent authorities take measures in the manner prescribed by the legislation of the Russian Federation. The lack of regulation at the legislative level of a number of issues creates certain difficulties for the implementation of these powers.

For example, experts of the CES within the framework of the 2011 mission noted that 294-FZ impedes visiting by inspectors of the Rosselkhoznadzor of enterprises that allowed production of products dangerous in veterinary-sanitary relation.

It is simpler with foreign violators - if the violation does not create an immediate real danger to the consumer, the company is warned, and its products are transferred to enhanced monitoring for a certain time. If during this time there is a new violation, a temporary supply limit will be introduced.

TO.: - Should consumers trust the label "organic products" on the packaging?

A.A..: - No, not worth it. This declaration is not verifiable. Since there are no criteria, no system of control and verification. In some cases, however, when they write “do not contain cholesterol” in vegetable oil, or salt  “Does not contain GMOs”, this is true - just in this case the ignorance of the consumer is exploited.

From the editors. We, in turn, studied the Unified SanPiN, acting in the Customs Union, and found there one piquant nuance. For example, in clause 1.5. "Hygienic safety requirements and nutritional value  food products "states the following:" In the manufacture of food raw materials of animal origin, the use of veterinary drugs (feed additives, animal growth stimulants, veterinary drugs), preparations for the treatment of animals, poultry, as well as preparations for the treatment of premises for their maintenance, not allowed to use in accordance with the laws of the Member States of the customs union. "

It turns out that if the drug used is not included in the list of prohibited drugs, then its use is considered legal. Anything that is not prohibited is allowed! The main thing is for the manufacturer to inform what type of medicine he used (according to the requirements of paragraph 1.3. "General Provisions" of the same document).

So formally the use of antibiotics to accelerate the growth of animals is not prohibited. If only this issue is not regulated by any other separate legislative acts.

But if antibiotic requirements are applied to foreign manufacturers with all strictness, up to a ban on deliveries and the inclusion of a negligent supplier in the “black list”, then there is no need to speak about strictness or at least objectivity with respect to domestic meat. The reason for this, including the lack of a centralized management of agricultural products safety, which was just mentioned by our esteemed interlocutor.

Control over our producers (factories, farms, personal subsidiary farms) is transferred to the regional level, and what is happening on the ground can only guess. In the people, for a long time and not without reason, there is a sense of patrimonies that local executive bodies are building for themselves, ready to turn a blind eye to any violations for a certain bribe.

No one checks the reliability of the transmitted information about the drugs used from the manufacturer to the control authority. Therefore, there is no objective statistics in Russia regarding the presence of antibiotics in meat.

Such a permissive approach to the problem on the part of the state unleashes the manufacturer’s hands. It turns out that today absolutely any meat can be given out for an organic product, packed in appropriate packaging with conscription inscriptions and put on the counter.

In addition, to break on their wits a solid jackpot. After all, any food product positioned in our country, as natural and grown without chemicals, is several times more expensive than a nameless colleague. Unlike the United States, where the cost of "organic food" is only 15-20% higher than normal products.

In addition, the aforementioned American studies have shown that, in fact, the cost of "clean", not burdened with antibiotics, meat is not as high as suppliers try to present, and make up about 5 cents per pound and less than pennies per pound of chicken.

Local farmers also behave much more honestly towards consumers. Consumer Reports experts have identified a variety of labels on meat products associated with the use of antibiotics, among them "never used antibiotics", "humanely grown or grown on family farms without antibiotics", "organic". Consumer Reports analyzed these types of labels and came to the conclusion that most of them are useful to consumers and reflect reality.

Consumers can always trust the quality of the product with the label "organic", since the organic requirements of the use of antibiotics in animal husbandry is prohibited. In addition, consumers may well trust most of the labels that contain the words “without antibiotics” or “grown without antibiotics”, especially if this is supported by the label “USDa process Verified” ”(meaning that the USDA checked and guaranteed compliance such statements from the manufacturer.) How is the situation in Russia, our source said above.

It is high time to revise the current SanPiN, adopt the Technical Regulations on the safety of meat and meat products, update and revise the list of controlled drugs, or rather their residual amounts in the finished meat products, I am sure Roman Gaidashov. Four types of antibiotics officially controlled today: grisin, bacitracin, tetracycline group, chloramphenicol have long lost their relevance. Only a lazy manufacturer did not refuse to use these drugs. The list of controlled drugs should definitely be expanded. If the industry is not able to completely abandon antibiotics when raising animals, then it is necessary, at least, to force manufacturers to report to the controlling veterinary service reliable information about the drugs used.

Despite the fact that experts are talking about the obsolescence of tetracycline antibiotics and their ever-lowering use in agriculture, Onishchenko intends to tighten the requirements for this type of medicine. Why? The answer is obvious. For check.

The Russian agricultural industry simply forgot how to produce clean, not burdened with chemicals products.

And the rejection of antibiotics in general will be equated with the destruction of Russian livestock and poultry.

By the way, to say that manufacturers use feed antibiotics around the world, is no longer possible. There are many examples of countries (in the same EU, where production hygiene is at a height) that use antimicrobial drugs strictly for therapeutic purposes. And there it is controlled by the state, unlike our country.

To this topic  The problem of microbial resistance to antibiotics is far from new. Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin and won the Nobel Prize for this achievement, warned in 1945 that the abuse of penicillin could lead to the emergence of resistant forms of bacteria.

By 1977, this problem was quite well known that the FDA (Food & Drug Administration) proposed banning the use of penicillin and tetracycline in animal feed. However, before taking the initiative to Congress, the FDA requires further research. They were held, but not adopted by Congress until now.

And here, obviously, the enormous influence of tightly united political forces from large livestock factories and the pharmaceutical industry, which in fact disrupt the adoption of any legislative or legal acts in this area.

Significant studies of this issue, including the work of the Research Institute of Medicine "Human health risks associated with the subtherapeutic use of penicillin or tetracycline in animal feeding" in 1988 and the work of the National Research Council "Use of drugs in animal feeding" in 1999 concluded that There is a direct link between the use of antibiotics in animal feeding and the loss of effectiveness of these drugs for humans.

Representatives of the pig industry claim that the use of antibiotics helps to make meat safe. However, according to new research, “superbugs” found in pork and poultry are resistant to four different types antibiotics, sent more than 100 people to the hospital and caused one death. What is the situation with the antibiotic resistance of pathogenic bacteria in Russia should show major research, which, in our opinion, should be initiated and supported by the state.

In the meantime, the uncontrolled, deliberate use of antimicrobial drugs for personal gain in the role of growth stimulants, adding them to food and water for drinkers leads to their accumulation in meat and, consequently, their subsequent ingestion with food in the human body. If this practice is not stopped now, then in the near future there will be nothing to treat people.

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TIPS from QUALITY.RU:

Always drain the first broth when cooking any meat. All pollutants from the surface and the remnants of medicinal veterinary preparations pass into the broth unchanged and do not disappear. Heat  and prolonged boiling can only deal with dangerous bacteria.

Buying domestic (farm) meat and poultry that you grow without antibiotics, you increase your risk of being infected with pathogens and viruses. Therefore, heat treatment (boiling, frying) of such products should be more thorough.