The Food Safety and Inspection Service will focus on being “one step ahead” of Shiga-toxin producing E. coli (STEC) and antimicrobial-resistant pathogens, Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, Under Secretary for Food Safety
Antibiotics, one of the world’s greatest medical discoveries, are slowly losing their effectiveness in fighting bacterial infections and the massive use of the drugs in food animals may be
The National Pork Producers Coalition is pushing back against claims that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s first ever estimate on antibiotics sold for animal agriculture is evidence
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the first time released an estimate on the amount of antibiotics sold for use in domestic food animal production, a move that
In the battle against antibiotic resistance in animal agriculture, researchers from Washington and New York states are hoping to help pave the way for U.S. approval of a promising
In the negative drum roll about animal agriculture’s role in antibiotic resistance, the Washington State Dairy Federation’s commitment to promoting the judicious use of antibiotics offers a bright
Antibiotic resistance and the emergence of drug-resistant microbes are global public health issues, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and November 15-21 is the third annual Get
Antibiotics have been used so widely and for so long that the bacteria the antibiotics are designed to kill have adapted to them, thus making them less effective, according to
The prescription animal drug Neomycin is an antibiotic. It kills bacteria rapidly by suppressing protein synthesis and growth.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tolerance level is 7.
A Kansas State University epidemiologist has received a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to improve food safety by managing antibiotic resistance in beef and dairy
FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) this past summer released its draft guidance on “The Judicious Use of Medically Important Antimicrobial Drugs in Food-Producing Animals.”
The week before the
The US Food and Drug Administration is continuing to take a “very serious” look at the link between the use of antibiotics in agriculture and the growing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant