Polish National Audit Office finds antibiotics used in poultry, pork
Antibiotics had been used in 70 percent of the meat and 80 percent of the poultry produced on farms in Poland's western Lubuskie province, announced National Audit Office of Poland in a recent report, quoted by the local media.
Still, "the official picture may not reflect reality", as mentions the Rzeczpospolita newspaper, since the system has its own errors. The audit office found that the documentation of veterinary care of livestock at Veterinary Inspection centres was incomplete, and in about half of cases, those centres’ official records were based on farmers’ testimonies.
“The system of control cannot guarantee that meat intended for sale is safe for consumers,” the National Audit Office said. Between 2011 and 2015, the antibiotics used in animal farms grew by 23 percent in Poland, according to the statistics.
On the other hand, Aleksandra Porada, one of the executives of the National Poultry Council argues that the antibiotics are too expensive for the farmers to use. Also, she underlined that antibiotic use in poultry was not unsafe if they exited the bird’s system before they were killed, adding that it took about ten days for the last dose of the medication to leave the body of a chicken which lives about 42 days. Lubuskie province is one of the regions in Poland where water and feed are monitored by the Veterinary Inspection.
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