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2015 in Review: Animal Antibiotics

By Lydia Zuraw on December 28, 2015

Antibiotics4_406x250It’s difficult to summarize what happened on the animal antibiotics front this year. There were lots of pledges, lots of discussions and lots of reports, but not very many actions. Still, we still wanted to…
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California Governor Signs Bill Regulating Animal Antibiotics

By Lydia Zuraw on October 10, 2015

PigsFeedingTroughOn Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 27, which will make the Golden State the first in the nation to require a veterinarian’s prescription for therapeutic antibiotic uses in…
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Comments in on FDA’s Plan to Collect Species-Specific Antibiotics Sales Data

By Lydia Zuraw on August 21, 2015

cowsfeeding_406x250Public health advocates concerned about how antibiotics used on farms impact increasing resistance, have long expressed the need for more on-the-ground data – particularly use by species. In May, the Food and Drug Administration proposed…
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Senators Still Want Answers From Antibiotic Resistance Task Force

By Lydia Zuraw on August 19, 2015

http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-images-white-house-image18128229Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) are still waiting for answers to animal antibiotics questions posed eight months ago. The senators originally wrote to the co-chairs of the Interagency Task…
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FDA Proposes Collecting Animal Antibiotics Sales Data By Species

By Lydia Zuraw on May 20, 2015

http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photos-cattle-image9644293The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing to expand animal drug data to include information about species. Each year, the agency publishes a summary of the information animal drug sponsors are required to report…
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62 Percent of 2013 Animal Antibiotics Sales Were Medically Important Drugs

By News Desk on April 13, 2015

http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photo-what-good-antibiotics-image28584115Federal data released last week show that sales of medically important antimicrobials used in food-producing animals in the U.S. increased by 3 percent in 2013 and by 20 percent between 2009 and 2013. The Food…
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Senators Reintroduce Bill to Combat Antibiotic Overuse

By News Desk on March 3, 2015

cowsfeeding_406x250On Monday, Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) reintroduced the Prevention of Antibiotic Resistance Act (PARA). The bill, previously introduced in June 2013, would require the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to withdraw…
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White House Wants to Nearly Double Funding for Antibiotic Resistance Fight

By Lydia Zuraw on January 28, 2015

President Obama wants to nearly double — to more than $1.2 billion — federal funding for combating and preventing antibiotic resistance. The administration is expected to release its full 2016 budget proposal next week, but…
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2014 in Review: Animal Antibiotics

By Lydia Zuraw on December 22, 2014

Food Safety News wrote a lot about antibiotic resistance this year — particularly the debate surrounding the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) plan to phase out the use of certain antibiotics in food animals, introduced…
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Three Senators Have Questions for Interagency Antibiotics Task Force

By News Desk on December 17, 2014

Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) sent a letter Tuesday to Secretaries Chuck Hagel, Tom Vilsack and Sylvia Burwell, co-chairs of the newly formed Interagency Task Force for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant…
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Pew Analysis Highlights Gaps in FDA’s Animal Antibiotics Policy

By Lydia Zuraw on December 4, 2014

A year after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released its Guidance for Industry #213, analysis by the Pew Charitable Trusts finds that gaps in the animal antibiotics policy could allow for some drugs to…
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