Jannie de Villiers, chief
executive officer of Grain SA has aired concerns over South Africa’s rising yellow corn
exports. The export rise could see the yellow crop being substituted with a white
variety for animal feed,
“If we go on at this tempo, then we will go into a deficit situation,” De Villiers said in Johannesburg yesterday.
A grower's organisation reported that a substitution could result in higher white corn prices, a staple food across South Africa.
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According to reports by Globe and Mail, Egypt has less than two months’ supply of imported wheat left in its stocks.
Bassem Ouda, former minister of Supplies said the state had just 500,000 tons of imported wheat left.
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Adding antibiotics to animal feed poses a serious risk to human health was the topic between two experts at BMJ.
David Wallinga from Keep Antibiotcs Working points to data showing that, in 2009-11, 72 percent of all US sales of antimicrobials comprised those routinely added to water or animal feed.
These, he says, are "additives in feed given routinely, without a prescription, at lower than therapeutic concentrations, for purposes such as growth promotion and to control disease in otherwise healthy animals being raised in crowded or unhygienic conditions that promote disease."
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