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Legal Arguments Begin in Case Challenging EPA’s Decision to Authorize Medically Important Antibiotic as Citrus Pesticide

January 18, 2023 Press ReleaseUnited States

SAN FRANCISCO – On January 23, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral argument challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of the medically-important antibiotic streptomycin as a pesticide on citrus crops. The lawsuit, brought by farmworker and…

Newly Disclosed Documents Show FDA Allows Livestock Antibiotics Use Despite “High Risk” to Humans

January 27, 2014 Press Release

FDA’s own Review of Livestock Antibiotics Support Federal Court Decision Ordering Agency to Initiate Process to Pull Drugs from Market

NRDC Urges FDA to Curb Livestock Antibiotic Overuse. Again.

September 13, 2016 Expert BlogJonathan Kaplan

Tonight: FRONTLINE airs report on antibiotics overuse in the American meat industry

October 14, 2014 Expert BlogSasha Stashwick

Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments et al. v. FDA et al. (Antibiotic Resistance)

January 24, 2023 Court CaseUnited StatesActive

NRDC and a coalition of public health advocacy groups are suing the FDA to halt unnecessary uses of antibiotics in animal agriculture—and protect people and the environment.

U.S. House Takes Important Step on Antibiotic Stewardship

August 5, 2020 Expert BlogDavid Wallinga, MD

Leadership to protect antibiotics by members of the U.S. House is vital.

FDA's New Report on Animal Antibiotics Ignores Public Health

July 13, 2022 Expert BlogWashington, D.C., United StatesDavid Wallinga, MD

Amid a decades-long concern about widespread U.S. antibiotic overuse in livestock, the FDA continues ignoring the public health need to track and make that use visible.

“One Health” Needs Clear Livestock Antibiotic Rules

November 2, 2018 Expert BlogAllison Johnson, David Wallinga, MD

Will "One Health" initiatives identify concrete goals for reductions in livestock antibiotic use?

European Action Halves Livestock Antibiotic Use

December 1, 2022 Expert BlogUnited StatesDavid Wallinga, MD

NRDC's latest research, using the most recent U.S. and European data, tells the story the FDA cannot or will not tell. U.S. farm stewardship of antibiotics isn't improving. We highlight three successful steps from Europe that could help turn the…

After the barbecue: food for thought

July 5, 2012 Expert BlogAvinash Kar

Industrial Agriculture 101

January 31, 2020 GuideUnited StatesNRDC

Giant farms—whether growing crops or animals—often rely heavily on chemicals and produce waste that pollutes the water and air. As a result, the system we’ve designed to feed the planet also takes a serious toll on its health.

Industrial Farming Is Not As You’ve Pictured

August 24, 2020 Expert BlogPaloma Sisneros-Lobato

The industrial agriculture system is reliant on a few large mega-corporations whose practices continue to exploit workers, growers and communities.

Sunset Rule Threatens Thousands of Public Health Protections

January 29, 2021 Expert BlogAddie Rolnick

The Biden-Harris administration should reverse a last-minute Trump rollback that could eliminate critical health and safety rules.

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