It is time for some straight talk about the risks of using massive amounts of antibiotics in livestock and poultry. I don’t know one infectious disease expert who would
U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), chairwoman of the House Rules Committee, submitted testimony on the threat to the U.S. military posed by antibiotic-resistant pathogens.
Slaughter, who has called
Three Pennsylvania dairy farms are abusing penicillin, neomycin, and flunixin–all drugs used to treat animals, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
In warning letters to
Hardly a week goes by without the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) handing out an official warning to an American dairy farmer about the overdose of antibiotics in
A dairy cow from a farm near Petaluma, CA was sold for slaughter as food with antibiotic levels in its edible tissues high enough to consider the meat adulterated.
The
U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) have asked the Obama administration to clarify its position on antibiotic use in food animals.
In a letter to
Last week, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies released the workshop summary from its Forum on Microbial Threats. The summary, entitled “Antibiotic Resistance: Implications for Global Health
U.S. public health officials are hosting a meeting next week to solicit public comments on the draft U.S. positions for the fourth session of the Ad Hoc Codex
U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently received more than 180,000 hand-delivered letters from citizens concerned about proposed FDA action on antibiotic use in animals. These concerned citizens represent
Michigan’s Scenic View Dairy, with farms at Fennville, Freeport, and Gowen, should be shut down for selling cows for human consumption with antibiotic levels that exceed tolerable limits.
So
Last summer in back-to-back outbreaks of drug-resistant strains of Salmonella, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) made history by recalling more than a 1.2 million pounds of
E. coli bacteria have already shown some resistance to gentamicin, a heat-stable antibiotic. And sulfamethazine, a sulfonamide antibacterial, is one of the most common animal drugs used on dairy farms.