Poultry farms that transition to organic and stop giving their birds antibiotics have significantly lower levels of drug-resistant bacteria, according to new research out of the University of Maryland’s
On the heels of Cargill’s 36 million pound recall
of ground turkey sparked by a antibiotic-resistant Salmonella outbreak,
a group of Democratic lawmakers sent a letter Tuesday to the
In a study published online Wednesday in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, an international team of researchers led by France’s Pasteur Institute describes the emergence of a multidrug-resistant strain
Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY) called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Thursday to ban the extra-label use of certain antibiotics in food animal production that are of critical
Scientists in the European Union have found that a high proportion of Campylobacter in humans is resistant to ciprofloxacin, an antibiotic critically important for the treatment of human diseases.
That
A group of multinational consumer organizations has come together to demand that governments impose tighter controls on the use of antibiotics in food animals.
Last week in Brussels the Trans
A bipartisan group of senators re-introduced a bill late last week aimed at preserving the effectiveness of medically important antibiotics by limiting their use in food animal feed. In the
The consumer advocacy groups that went to court this week in an attempt to take non-therapeutic antibiotics away from animal agriculture ignored science, failed to cite any data and did
The same groups that did a pretty good job last year of convincing former CBS news anchor Katie Couric that giving antibiotics to the healthy animals we eat is not
A new study by Wayne State University found that 22.5 percent of 289 meat samples from Detroit grocery stores tested positive for Staphyloccus aureus; as well as 20.5
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Friday cleared the first test for Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) infections that can quickly discern whether the bacteria are methicillin resistant (MRSA) or
In the ongoing debate over whether or not to regulate the use of antibiotics for food animals, moms fall squarely into the “yes” category.
That’s according to a new