Sales of antibiotics intended for domestic food animals increased from 2009 to 2010, according to new data released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The Pew Health Group
Federal agencies have made “limited progress” in addressing antibiotic use in food animals and lack the data needed to track progress, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
The
Federal Judge Gordon Jay Quist found that cows owned by Scenic View Dairy had antibiotic levels too high for the animals to be sold for slaughter as human food, but
The National Institute for Animal Agriculture, a non-profit group unifying a variety of animal agriculture groups, will hold a national forum focused on antibiotics in October.
“The use of antibiotics
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
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
High animal drug residues have been found in the edible tissues of bob veal calves sold for slaughter by a Vermont dairy.
Tissue samples taken after slaughter by the USDA’
A California farm that the federal government claims has “a long history of illegal drug residues (antibiotics)” in its veal calf meat has been shut down.
The U.S. Food
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
Five years after the European Union banned antibiotics in animal feed, South Korea is about to become the first Asian country to embrace such a restriction.
Beginning in July, South
The Walnut Cheese Company of Illinois, doing business as Avanti Foods, is recalling some mozzarella cheese products because they may contain beta-lactam antibiotic residues.
In a news release, the Illinois