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 he does not want to see the farm shut down.
The U.S. District Court judge for the Western District of…
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A Texas dairy cow with high levels of Flunixin in its liver and a bob veal calf in California with gentamicin in its kidney tissues are the latest examples of animal drug misuse.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has sent official warning letters to both dairy operations.
A June…
Do-N-Joy Holsteins at Arlington, MN was charged in a May 11 warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration with misuse of the animal drug penicillin G procaine.
The warning letter stems from an inspection of the Arlington dairy operation last Dec. 14, in which the Minnesota Department of…
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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 people who see a connection between the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture and an increase in human resistance to the same…
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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 argues Adam B. Townshend, assistant U.S. Attorney, in a 25-page complaint filed Aug. 31 in U.S. District Court for Western…
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