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Assay of Various Mold-Ripened Cheeses for Antibiotic Activity¹

Department of Dairy Science, Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, Gainesville

ABSTRACT

In recent years there has developed an interest in the possible effects on humans of intakes of very small amounts of antibiotics in foods over a period of time. This interest caused the American Dairy Science Association through its Manufacturing and Production sections to create a joint Committee on Antibiotics in Milk, charged with the responsibility of obtaining factual information on every aspect of the problem dealing with antibiotics in milk. The Committee's reports of 1951 (5) and 1953 (6) contained sections dealing with the human sensitization aspect. In the latter report it was pointed out that the Food and Drug Administration (7) had issued a statement of policy in which it was pointed out that "the presence of antibiotic drugs in foods intended for human consumption, or the direct or indirect addition of such drugs to such food, may be deemed adulteration." The reasons expressed were that consumption of foods containing antibiotic drugs may cause sensitization of the consumer to such antibiotics and also may result in the emergence of strains of pathogenic microorganisms resistant to these drugs.

¹ Florida Agricultural Experiment Station. Journal Series, No. 268.