Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-10-26-Speech-3-296-000"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2011-10-26"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Public health threat of antimicrobial resistance (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20111026.20.3-296-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-10-26-Speech-3-297-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Kartika Tamara Liotard2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Onafhankelijk lid (2010-06-01--2014-06-30)3 substitute; FEMM (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; DEVE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation for relations with Japan (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; ENVI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 vice-chair; EUL/NGL (2009-07-14--2012-02-06)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, what the Commissioner has just said gives us hope because, if we do nothing, antibiotics will prove to be, not a prolonger of, but a threat to life. Every year, 25,000 people die in the EU of conditions which are untreatable because bacteria in their bodies have become resistant to antimicrobial agents. We are not weighing up the medicine correctly and are dispensing it for the wrong purposes. You ought only to be able to get antibiotics on prescription from a qualified physician for a specific problem. But this is not working the way it should. Half of the population already wrongly knocks back antibiotics for a touch of flu or a cold. It is not just ill people that are prescribed antibiotics by doctors; we also have healthy people ingesting them with their food, when they eat meat which has been intentionally laced with them, because antibiotics are added to animal feed for preventive purposes. Now, what is perverse about this situation is that our cattle breeders risk facing major health risks, such as the aggressive MRSA bacterium. We have been turning a blind eye to the side effects for too long, as well as to the long-term side effects and the impact on the environment. We have increasingly been focusing on the current impact and on the impact on the individual but, at the same time, we have been burdening the community as a whole and our future generations with deadly consequences. I have often expressed deep-rooted criticism of the EU’s meddlesomeness, but we are talking here about a health problem which really justifies international intervention. Cross-border action is the only formula that will help contain this serious, health-threatening problem. I hope that the Council and the Commission will not show themselves immune to the action points which we, as Parliament, have drawn up, and I hope that the Council and the Commission will complete the whole course of treatment."@en1
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