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bassexpander
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 Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 5:49 pm Post subject: Banned antibiotics found in Chinese duck meat in Korea |
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S. Korea finds banned antibiotics in Chinese duck meat
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/techscience/2008/11/07/0601000000AEN20081107008400320.HTML
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혻혻 By Lee Joon-seung
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's quarantine service said Friday that it has found banned antibiotics that can cause serious bone marrow defects in cooked duck meat from China.
Chloramphenicol levels were very low at 1.3 parts per billion, but since the material should not be in food at all, the entire shipment of 18.3 tons will either be sent back or destroyed, the National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service (NVRQS) said. |
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Harpeau
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| Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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Those friggin Chinese! When will it end?!
BTW, in China, do they call it Chinese food~ or just food?  |
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Bigfeet
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Location: Grrrrr.....
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| Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Crap like this is what you get with small government. |
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wylies99
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| Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:12 am Post subject: |
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That's a lot of duck meat that's going to be destroyed. It's gotta be worth a lot of money.
BTW, I wonder how they knew to test this shipment for something that obscure. Maybe they were tipped off? |
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Yesterday
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Land of the Morning DongChim (Kancho)
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| Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:58 pm Post subject: Re: Banned antibiotics found in Chinese duck meat in Korea |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
| that it has found banned antibiotics that can cause serious bone marrow defects |
Banned??
Its a widely used antibiotic in many countries -
Chloramphenicol has a long history and therefore a multitude of alternative names in many different countries:
Alficetyn
Amphicol
Biomicin
Chlornitromycin
Chloromycetin (U.S., intravenous preparation)
Chlorsig (U.S., Australia, eye drops)
Dispersadron C (Greece, eye drops)
Fenicol
Kemicetine (UK, intravenous preparation)
Laevomycetin
UK as an eye treatment
Brochlor (Aventis Pharma Ltd)
Golden Eye (Typharm Ltd)
Optrex Infected Eyes
Oftan Chlora (eye ointment)
Phenicol
Medicom
Nevimycin
Renicol (India,eye drops)
Silmycetin (Thailand, eye drops)
Synthomycine (Israel, eye ointment)
Tifomycine (France, oily chloramphenicol)
Vernacetin
Veticol
Chloramphenicol is active against the three main bacterial causes of meningitis: Neisseria meningitidis, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae.
In the West, chloramphenicol remains the drug of choice in the treatment of meningitis in patients with severe penicillin or cephalosporin allergy and GPs are recommended to carry intravenous chloramphenicol in their bag. In low income countries, the WHO recommend that oily chloramphenicol be used first-line to treat meningitis.
Chloramphenicol has been used in the U.S. in the initial empirical treatment of children with fever and a petechial rash, when the differential diagnosis includes both Neisseria meningitidis septicaemia as well as Rocky Mountain spotted fever, pending the results of diagnostic investigations.
Chloramphenicol is also effective against Enterococcus faecium, which has led to it being considered for treatment of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus.
In the West, the main use of chloramphenicol is in eye drops or ointment for bacterial conjunctivitis.
it is still very widely used in low income countries because it is exceedingly inexpensive, but has fallen out of favour in the West due to a very rare but very serious side effect: aplastic anemia. |
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BS.Dos.
Joined: 29 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Harpeau wrote: |
Those friggin Chinese! When will it end?!
BTW, in China, do they call it Chinese food~ or just food? |
Also, are there Chinatowns' in Chinese cities? |
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