Pesticide juices: such as Florida oranges and lemons increase antibiotic resistance

    Pesticide juices: such as Florida oranges and lemons increase antibiotic resistance

    Citrus fruits from Florida are full of streptomycin and oxytetracycline and now new studies tell us that these pesticides are resistant to antibiotics and very dangerous for human health.

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    Citrus fruits from Florida are full of streptomycin and oxytetracycline and now new studies tell us that these pesticides are resistant to antibiotics and very dangerous for human health. And the problem concerns us closely because this fruit also reaches our tables.





    We had already talked about it, oranges, lemons and more, that come from Florida are real pesticide juices. This is because in unsuspected times, the Trump administration approved the maximum level of the antibiotic oxytetracycline allowed in citrus fruits. The Environmental Protection Agency's decision has effectively opened the door to widespread use of the drug in California, Florida and other states on crops such as grapefruit, oranges, lemons and mandarins.

    Now there are news because newly released documents are that the American federal agency that deals with epidemics says that spraying streptomycin and oxytetracycline is dangerous for human health because these pesticides lead to antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

    Pesticides were sprayed in the past but never on a large scale. The discovery is alarming because when these pesticides are sprayed they arrive on soil, water, air and fruit trees, thus generating a chain reaction.

    This means that a generation of resistant bacteria is selected which has now been documented by the Centers for Disease Control, but the EPA has only provided a summary of what has been found.

    "The only reason we're aware of the troubling findings from the Centers for Disease Control is that a scientific group called the Center for Biological Diversity filed a Freedom of Information Act application and got the full 2017 study," Florida Phoenix says.

    And again, according to the journalists in the EPA summary "they omitted the most important part of the report, namely that exposure to streptomycin and oxytetracycline can facilitate the development of resistance to other, more important, antibiotics".

    The Trump administration adopts this measure against citrus fruit sickness, which is a fungus that usually attacks lemons, cedars and bergamots, but never in the slightest thinks that these substances can increase the problem of antibiotic resistance, despite the concerns of the EPA itself. But in the end, the Trump administration and EPA have determined that the economic benefits outweigh everything, even the risks to people and the environment.



    The U.S. Department of Agriculture defends itself by saying that the amount of antibiotic exposure to people who eat fruit or drink juice is much less than what people are exposed to when their doctor orders antibiotics.

    Meanwhile, drug-resistant infections kill 23 Americans every year. The United Nations says infections could cost us 10 million lives globally by 2050, surpassing cancer deaths.


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