Citing a new estimate–that around 80 percent of all U.S. antibiotics are given to animals–Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY) reintroduced a bill this week aimed at limiting the
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released draft guidelines for the judicious use of antimicrobials in food animals last June, the agency welcomed a flood of input
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration confirmed numbers this week that indicate animal agriculture consumes 80 percent of all antibiotics used in the United States, more than previously estimated.
A recent investigation by Canada’s CBC TV news found two-thirds of samples collected at major grocery stores in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal had bacteria resistant to at least one
A small dairy in Washington state is recalling unpasteurized fluid goat milk because of concerns about possible contamination with antibiotic residue.
The Lucky Hook Dairy of Moses Lake in Eastern
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
FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) this past summer released its draft guidance on “The Judicious Use of Medically Important Antimicrobial Drugs in Food-Producing Animals.”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
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