Congress Must Limit How Long Livestock Can Be Fed Key Drugs
The House is hotly debating amendments to the Animal Drug User Fee Act of 2018. Unfortunately, leadership of the Energy and Commerce Commmittee seems determined...
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Mourning a Champion of Public Health
Louise Slaughter, the only microbiologist in Congress, was a stalwart champion for reducing the overuse of antibiotics in U.S. livestock production. Unfortunate...
A Powerful Industry Denies Science on Livestock Antibiotics*
Over past decades, the feeding of medically important antibiotics to healthy livestock animals has become entrenched practice. Predictably, new guidelines from ...
New WHO Guideline Offers Hope in Curbing Antibiotics
In the battle to keep antibiotics working, the World Health Organization (WHO) came out with new recommendations today for farmers and the food industry: Stop u...
What’s the Big Deal About Big Chicken (or Big Pork)
Six decades ago, the U.S. chicken industry led the way in feeding human antibiotics to flocks of chickens. Now, it's leading the retreat from this dangerous pra...
REPORT: Roadmap for a Future Where Antibiotics Still Work
Existing federal policies are not adequate to reverse the unnecessary uses of antibiotics, and the growing threat of antibiotics resistance....