webfact Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 Scientists urge tighter control on farms after antibiotic findings By The Nation File photo SCIENTISTS are urging the government to crack down on fish farms after tests found high levels of antibiotic contamination in pangasius on sale in Thailand. More commonly known as dory or pla sawai, pangasius is popular with Thai consumers. The research earlier this year by Thammasat and Mahidol universities found that 25 per cent of dory fish-meat samples were contaminated with antibiotic residues above the World Health Organisation (WHO) safe limit. Thailand annually imports 11,000 kilograms of the fish from regional neighbours, notably Vietnam, to meet the per-capita demand for an average 30 kilos of dory yearly, said Professor Chongrak Polprasert of Thammasat University, who a member of the research team. Chongrak said many farmers are dosing their fish with antibiotics to prevent disease. The improper use of such medicines, coupled with lax law enforcement, can lead to antibiotic residues that may be harmful to consumers. “Even boiling or frying the fish might not get rid of the contamination,” he said. The 100 dory test samples were randomly collected from piers, airports and shops, according to Thammasat researcher Warunsak Liamlaem. Twenty-five of the samples were found to contain antibiotic residues beyond the WHO’s safe limit of 200 micrograms per kilo of fish meat, Warunsak said. Prolonged exposure to high levels of antibiotic residues in meat and other foods can cause people |to become resistant to life-saving drugs. Drug resistance is a key health issue in Thailand, each year claiming about 38,000 lives and causing 700,000 cases of illness that result in Bt50 billion in damage to the economy, he said. Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30366165 -- © Copyright The Nation 2019-03-21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4MyEgo Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 Great, veggies contaminated with pesticides that are banned all over the world, and now antibiotic traces on certain types of fish, so what are we to eat, junk food, no doubt our kids won't say no to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mok199 Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 Get in line , right behind pollution ,plastics ,road carnage,teen pregnancy etc etc etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lungstib Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 29 minutes ago, mok199 said: Get in line , right behind pollution ,plastics ,road carnage,teen pregnancy etc etc etc... Perfect. Took any ideas I could think of away and had me chuckling in my coffee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupatria Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Control needs enforcement. It does not work well with traffic, illegal guns, prescription drugs and many other things in LOS. The "government" is probably already beleaguered to control the media, the common folks, and the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quandow Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 I was an avid scuba diver in Puget Sound during the 90's. There was one particularly challenging but rewarding dive at Agate Pass. The strong tides were such that you took two cars, parked one off where the dive ended, then took the 2nd car where you entered and drifted across the pass. At the end of the dive on an incoming tide was a salmon farm. Occasionally we would dive close to it and see the nets holding these poor creatures. They were packed like sardines, no room to swim around, and buckets of antibiotics were thrown in to kill the disease that flourished in these conditions. Completely disgusting. There is no way you could EVER convince me to eat farmed fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisherd3 Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 My experience is that educated Thais have no clue about taking full course of antibiotics , supposed to have long term effect on the continued effectiveness of antibiotic treatment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxe1200 Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 1 hour ago, quandow said: I was an avid scuba diver in Puget Sound during the 90's. There was one particularly challenging but rewarding dive at Agate Pass. The strong tides were such that you took two cars, parked one off where the dive ended, then took the 2nd car where you entered and drifted across the pass. At the end of the dive on an incoming tide was a salmon farm. Occasionally we would dive close to it and see the nets holding these poor creatures. They were packed like sardines, no room to swim around, and buckets of antibiotics were thrown in to kill the disease that flourished in these conditions. Completely disgusting. There is no way you could EVER convince me to eat farmed fish. Wait until the findings what happens in Thai chicken farms are being revealed. You will never eat chicken again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salavan Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 3 hours ago, Lungstib said: Perfect. Took any ideas I could think of away and had me chuckling in my coffee. Your coffee also contains large amounts of glyphsates and pestercides enjoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justin case Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 no surprise here, add dangerous pesticides, herbicides were found on expensive villa market produce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Farmed Norwegian Salmon World’s Most Toxic Food https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYYf8cLUV5E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemonjelly Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 I’m just off down to the local pharmacy to get a few packets of amoxicillin, no questions asked....... see ya later everyone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digger70 Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 2 hours ago, fxe1200 said: Wait until the findings what happens in Thai chicken farms are being revealed. You will never eat chicken again. Put ducks and pigs on that list too. there are probable others as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redline Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Does urging work????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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