{"id":86886,"date":"2019-07-21T13:27:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T07:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8283"},"modified":"2019-07-21T13:27:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T07:57:56","slug":"colistin-banned-in-animal-food-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/colistin-banned-in-animal-food-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Colistin banned in animal food industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued an order prohibiting the manufacture, sale and distribution of <strong>colistin<\/strong> and its formulations for food-producing animals, poultry, aqua farming and animal feed supplements.<\/li><li>Activists across the country has welcomed this move as a massive victory for the movement against antimicrobial resistance.&nbsp;<\/li><li>According to experts,the recent step would ensure that colistin does not enter the food people eat and thereby people don\u2019t develop resistance to the antibiotic.<\/li><li><strong>Colistin<\/strong> is a polypeptide antibiotic from the group of polymyxins.This antimicrobial is predominantly used in veterinary medicine in the treatment of intestinal diseases as well as other infections.<\/li><li>This antibiotic is used in animals as it helps them remain free of disease or gain weight faster.<\/li><li>However,Colistin is also used as a last line therapy in Humans to treat infections caused by multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria when essentially no other options are available.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued an order prohibiting the manufacture, sale and distribution of colistin and its formulations for food-producing animals, poultry, aqua farming and animal feed supplements. Activists across the country has welcomed this move as a massive victory for the movement against antimicrobial resistance.&nbsp; According to experts,the recent step&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/colistin-banned-in-animal-food-industry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Colistin banned in animal food industry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[2573,4565,2553],"class_list":["post-86886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-animals","tag-antibiotic","tag-colistin","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704832354},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}