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Offline quinskic

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antibiotics
« on: July 21, 2008, 10:47:41 AM »
I was wondering what the difference was between animal grade antibiotics vs human grade. There is a huge difference in prices even though the bottles indicate that its the same content.
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Re: antibiotics
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2008, 03:16:46 PM »
It probably has to do with the purity/quality control.  The human-grade antibiotics will be very pure and free of harmful contaminants, whereas this may not be true for the animal-grade antibiotics.
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Re: antibiotics
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2008, 09:51:57 AM »
that is why in some areas they are using human grade anti-infectives in animals...like poultry....
i have seen a chicken farmer force one of his rooster to drink a 500 mg human grade erythromicin...
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