Antibiotics are a major contraption exploited by the health care industry to curb bacterial infections. Consequently, unscrupulous practice of antibiotic plays a considerable role in emerging public health threat of broad concern to countries and multiple sectors crisis of antibiotic resistance. The concern becomes more considerable on future perspective as the global exploitation of antimicrobials for food animal production. Antibiotic residues from food have a dual concern; one is the potential threat of development of toxicity to humans and second is possible expansion of resistant strains and failure of antibiotic therapy in clinical cases. Even upon such perilous effect, the indiscriminate use of antibiotics indicates that antibiotic resistance is still a marginally concern question in India, where the use of antibiotics in agriculture is extensive.

Keywords: Antibiotic resistance; Food; RTE; Meat; Milk.