More podcast fun: discussing the #BiocidesBill & #microbiotoxicity with the fabulous @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social & Dr Sheena Fraser - we unpack regulation of consumer biocides (versus pharmaceutical antibiotics), & the unintended impact on our health & environment 🦠🧫

Consider this our post advertising the latest episode, ‘Biocide Bashing’, available now!

Hold on to your Phallusocks ®️, this topic’s as scary as it gets! (That’ll make more sense after you listen)

#IDsky #microsky #biocides #microbiotoxicity

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How medicines affect gut bacteria could inform safer, more effective use Understanding gut microbiome interactions with medicines could help explain differences in how people respond to treatment and build on existing medicine safety knowledge to support safer, more effect...

New paper out with colleagues at #MHRA, reviewing #microbiotoxicity. We call for more research, & consider whether #microbiome endpoints should be incorporated into drug development pipelines. Check out the Gov.uk press release for a quick recap! 💙🦠🧫

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131. Biocide Bashing - ID:IOTS - Infectious Disease Insight Of Two Specialists BIOCIDES ARE COMING FOR YOU. Find out what they are, what the benefits and harms they have, and what we can do to control their use in consumer products. This was a fascinating, wide-ranging...

I joined the wonderful Baroness Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social & my favourite podcast buddies @idiots-pod.bsky.social to discuss #microbiotoxicity & #biocides - including how legislation can help protect our microbiomes. Check it out! 💙🦠🧫

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The nature extinction crisis is mirrored by one in our own bodies. Both have huge implications for health Modern life is waging a war against ecosystems around us and inside us. Keeping our own microbes healthy is another reason to demand action to preserve the natural world

Our #microbiome is us. We are holobionts, as Lynn Margulis understood.

Thinking must be ecological, for every complex being is an ecology, as well as living in one.

#microbiotoxicity, the threat of damage to microbes, has to be on regulatory agendas
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Landmark Bill explicitly aims to protect #microbiome from #microbiotoxicity associated with overuse of antimicrobials 💙🦠

Antibacterials are everywhere: for the sake of our microbiome, we need to control their use A new bill looking to control antibacterials in everyday products was recently debated in the House of Lords.

Wondering about #microbiotoxicity? Check out our explainer in @theconversation.com today, & read all about @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social #BiocidesBill in @houseoflords.parliament.uk 🦠💊🧫💙 theconversation.com/antibacteria...

Check out our new Editorial on #Microbiotoxicity! A call to arms to protect human & environmental #microbiome against #antimicrobials, including food additives & biocodes🦠💊🧫 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great to see this extensive coverage in The Mirror on my #BiocidesBill - addressing #AMR, #Microbiotoxicity and environmental damage

Microbiotoxicity: a call to arms for cross-sector protection of the human microbiome Carpenter et al.’s recent study adds to the growing body of evidence showing that antibiotic use can be harmful to the human microbiome.1 We recently introduced the term “microbiotoxicity” to describe...

Delighted to (modestly) contribute to this letter in @biainfection.bsky.social journal on #Microbiotoxicity.

My private members' #Biocides bill in #HouseofLords tomorrow addresses a significant consumer cause. Our #microbiome is crucial to #PublicHealth

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