bactericides

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It should be illegal to use fungicides or bactericides with medicinal value in non-human applications, especially on crops.

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Any substance that kills bacteria, especially one that is otherwise harmless.

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noun

Any substance that kills bacteria, especially one that is otherwise harmless.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for bactericides.

noun

Any substance that kills bacteria, especially one that is otherwise harmless.

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It should be illegal to use fungicides or bactericides with medicinal value in non-human applications, especially on crops.

Good diet (no sugars) and avoidance of broad-spectrum bactericides will allow good bacteria to thrive, pushing out the bad smelly ones.

That is how I’ve understood it: residues of bactericides everywhere which become inhaled dust.

Better alternative bactericides must be found for vaccine preservation.

> It should be illegal to use fungicides or bactericides with medicinal value in non-human applications, especially on crops.

I'm sure many species are instinctively aware of natural bactericides, salts, etc.

> Good diet (no sugars) and avoidance of broad-spectrum bactericides will allow good bacteria to thrive, pushing out the bad smelly ones.

I'm not a biologist, but I would assume that bactericides for external use can be much more aggressive than antibiotics that are injected in the organism; they are expected not to kill the patient altogether the bacteria.

Drying stuff is comparatively simple, but salting, smoking it, by either adding acid or fermenting (which makes the bacteria produce the acid that inhibits them), by adding alcohol (or again, letting the bacteria produce the alcohol), by introducing organisms that produce bactericides - namely fungi (cheese mold) that produce antibiotics.