Front Matter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Executive Summary -- 1 Drugs Used in Food Animals: Background and Perspectives -- 2 Food-Animal Production Practices and Drug Use -- 3 Benefits and Risks to Human Health -- 4 Drug Development, Government Approval, and the Regulatory Process -- 5 Drug Residues and Microbial Contamination in Food: Monitoring and Enforcement -- 6 Issues Specific to Antibiotics -- 7 Costs of Eliminating Subtherapeutic Use of Antibiotics -- 8 Approaches to Minimizing Antibiotic Use in Food-Animal Production -- References -- About the Authors -- Index.