Federal Government Expresses Concern Over Antibiotics Misuse By Fish Farmers

The Federal Ministry of Livestock Development of (FMLD) expressed interest implicit the continuous misuse of antibiotics by food farmers contempt warnings astir the antagonistic consequences of the act.

Speaking astatine an antimicrobial absorption consciousness and sensitisation store for food farmers successful Lafia, Nasarawa State capital, the manager of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology successful the ministry, Mr. Samuel Anzaku, said the misuse of antibiotics posed superior risks to quality health, aquaculture, and the situation successful general.

Our analogous reports that the sensitisation programme, which was sponsored by the Fleming Fund done the University of Liverpool, UK, successful collaboration with FMLD, drew stakeholders from the food industry, including farmers’ associations.

Azaku explained that antimicrobial absorption (AMR) successful food accumulation was unsafe due to the fact that resistant bacteria tin dispersed from food farms to humans done contaminated nutrient and water.

He noted that improper antimicrobial usage successful aquaculture creates a reservoir of resistant genes, which tin past beryllium transmitted to different organisms, including humans, making infections harder to treat, stressing that the interconnectedness of human, animal, and biology health, known arsenic the One Health concept, highlights the urgent request for hazard mitigation strategies to power AMR successful aquaculture.

He said curtailing misuse of antibiotics volition pb to safer accumulation successful the fishery manufacture and support quality health.

Also speaking astatine the event, the programme coordinator and a Fleming Fund Fellow, Maureen Kajo-Kokoiwen, urged farmers to enactment with veterinarians for due illness attraction and debar sharing unverified attraction methods.

According to her, nonaccomplishment to observe cause withdrawal periods puts some consumers and the situation astatine risk, adjacent arsenic she stressed that cause misuse was becoming a superior menace to nutrient information and nationalist health.

She said the consciousness run was portion of a planetary effort to beforehand liable usage of antimicrobials.

On his part, the president of the Nasarawa Fish Farmers and Processors Association, Manasseh Usman, appreciated the ministry for initiating the awareness, stating that the store volition spell a agelong mode successful safeguarding consumers and improving farming practices.

He promised to measurement down the consciousness among food farmers and wide nationalist successful Nasarawa State.