{"id":10700,"date":"2017-11-21T11:33:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T11:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=10700"},"modified":"2017-11-21T11:33:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T11:33:11","slug":"national-food-regulator-sets-maximum-permissible-limit-of-antibiotics-in-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/national-food-regulator-sets-maximum-permissible-limit-of-antibiotics-in-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"National food regulator sets maximum permissible limit of antibiotics in meat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The national food safety regulator has issued a draft notification fixing the maximum limit of antibiotics in meat and meat products, a long-overdue move that aims to combat rising antibiotic resistance in humans.<\/p>\n<p>The notification by Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) issued on Monday says the maximum permissible limits in chicken is for 37 antibiotics and 67 other veterinary drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The move is to ensure that the residue of antibiotics in food from animal sources does not lead to the development of antibiotic resistance in human pathogen, posing a threat to human health, a release from the health ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, use of antibiotic and pharmacologically active substances are prohibited in food stuff of animal-origin including fish and fisheries products, the notification said.<\/p>\n<p>The government has invited comments from the general public within 30 days of the notification of the amendment to the Food Safety &amp; Standards (Contaminants, Toxins &amp; Residues) Regulations, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The objections and suggestions received will be placed before a scientific panel of the FSSAI on residues of pesticides and antibiotics for consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national food safety regulator has issued a draft notification fixing the maximum limit of antibiotics in meat and meat products, a long-overdue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10702,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10700\/revisions\/10702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}