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
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has revealed new detail about how antibiotics are used in animal agriculture, an issue of growing controversy in food policy and public health
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
Editor’s Note: This article is the second in a series on new and food pathogen interventions discussed at the Food Pathogen Interventions Symposium hosted by the Seafood Products Association.
A Minnesota dairy farm received an April 19 warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after state agriculture officials conducted an investigation into animal drug misuse.
The
Warning letters on March 25, March 28, and April 6 put dairy farms in California, Idaho and Wisconsin on notice about misuse of animal antibiotics.
In each case, the U.
Almost a quarter of the meat and poultry sold in U.S. grocery stores may be contaminated with drug-resistant forms of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, also known as Staph, according to
The editors of Scientific American recently encouraged U.S. hog farmers to “follow Denmark and stop giving farm animals low-dose antibiotics.” Sixteen years ago, in order to reduce the threat
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has decided to tweak procedures it follows in monitoring for the chemical residues left by animal drugs. It is going to take more
Michigan’s Amting Dairy Farm — located at Marshall near the Intersection of Interstates 69 and 94 — has a mid-sized herd of dairy cows and is a fairly typical for the
Administering antibiotics to animals via feed leads to inconsistencies in how much of the drugs they intake, thus contributing to the growth of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria, according to a