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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 901478" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>Travis, </p><p>I wasn't meaning to beat you up, but your post provided a 'teachable moment' opportunity.</p><p></p><p>There's no doubt that gentamicin, when properly administered, can be a very effective drug, in cases in which its use is indicated.</p><p>But! Gentamicin is not approved for use in cattle, there is no approved milk/slaughter withdrawal(may be present in kidneys 18 months or more after it's administered), and should not be administered to cattle - there are numerous APPROVED drugs which would be effective, and others which can be used in an extra-label manner, against the same organisms that gentamicin would be effective against, without causing violative tissue residues.</p><p> </p><p>Your veterinarian should acquaint himself/herself with the AMDUCA/ELDU regulations and maybe spend some time at the Food Animal Residue Avoidance Database(FARAD), re-educating themselves with which drugs are allowed/recommended for extra-label drug use in food-producing animals. It gives us all - veterinarians and beef/dairy/pork producers alike - a 'black eye' in the public arena, when antimicrobials and other drugs are used inappropriately, resulting in violative residues - and gives the anti-meat folks just one more piece of ammunition to throw up - "See, beef is chock-full of antibiotics and hormones, and producers are contributing to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant pathogens!" And, to some degree, they are correct - even if it is only small numbers of folks who're not doing right.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/NewsEvents/FDAVeterinarianNewsletter/ucm102716.htm" target="_blank">http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/New ... 102716.htm</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 901478, member: 12607"] Travis, I wasn't meaning to beat you up, but your post provided a 'teachable moment' opportunity. There's no doubt that gentamicin, when properly administered, can be a very effective drug, in cases in which its use is indicated. But! Gentamicin is not approved for use in cattle, there is no approved milk/slaughter withdrawal(may be present in kidneys 18 months or more after it's administered), and should not be administered to cattle - there are numerous APPROVED drugs which would be effective, and others which can be used in an extra-label manner, against the same organisms that gentamicin would be effective against, without causing violative tissue residues. Your veterinarian should acquaint himself/herself with the AMDUCA/ELDU regulations and maybe spend some time at the Food Animal Residue Avoidance Database(FARAD), re-educating themselves with which drugs are allowed/recommended for extra-label drug use in food-producing animals. It gives us all - veterinarians and beef/dairy/pork producers alike - a 'black eye' in the public arena, when antimicrobials and other drugs are used inappropriately, resulting in violative residues - and gives the anti-meat folks just one more piece of ammunition to throw up - "See, beef is chock-full of antibiotics and hormones, and producers are contributing to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant pathogens!" And, to some degree, they are correct - even if it is only small numbers of folks who're not doing right. [url=http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/NewsEvents/FDAVeterinarianNewsletter/ucm102716.htm]http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/New ... 102716.htm[/url] [/QUOTE]
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