In the News
In the News
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| Nov 9, 2012 |
Laura Rogers, project director for the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming, is in Denmark this week meeting with farmers, government officials and public health experts to learn how the United States can adapt the country’s successful model. |
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| Nov 1, 2012 |
Chicago Public Schools: Serving Meat Raised Without Antibiotics This November, the Chicago Public School System celebrate the one-year anniversary of the announcment that it would begin serving chicken raised without antibiotics to students in its 473 schools. |
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| Oct 15, 2012 |
Denmark is one of the largest pork exporting countries in the world, yet it has just reported that total use of antibiotics for pig production in the country decreased 30 percent from 2010 to 2011. The reduction in antibiotic use is a substantial accomplishment for public health and shows how an industry can dramatically transform its practices with government and public support. |
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| Oct 11, 2012 |
State of the Science: Superbugs and Public Health People tend to think of summer as a time reserved for rest and relaxation, but this has not been the case for many scientists this past season. In the last few months, there have been several new studies on antibiotics widely discussed by media, policymakers, and the public alike. |
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| Oct 5, 2012 |
Farmer Friday: Celebrating Farmers Who Raise Animals without Antibiotics Americans want food that is raised sustainably and that promotes public health while minimizing harm to the environment. It is our agricultural system that affords these choices to the American consumer. Farmer Friday provides a weekly opportunity to shine a spotlight on these producers and thank them for protecting public health by using antibiotics only when their animals are sick. |
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| Aug 24, 2012 |
SuperChefs Against Superbugs, an initiative of the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming, is a movement of chefs nationwide who have expressed their support of ending the misuse and overuse of antibiotics in food animal production. As a result, the SuperChefs are urging the Food and Drug Administration to strengthen its antibiotic policies. |
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| Aug 17, 2012 |
''Senators Urge FDA to Collect More Data on Antibiotics in Agriculture'' Thirteen senators from both sides of the aisle wrote to U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg this week asking the agency to collect more data on antibiotics used in food animal production. |
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| Aug 17, 2012 |
219,000+ Americans Unite to Urge FDA to End Antibiotic Overuse More than 219,000 people across the country have urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to end antibiotic overuse on industrial farms just to make animals grow faster and compensate for overcrowded and unsanitary conditions. |
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| Aug 1, 2012 | "Amid growing consumer awareness about antibiotics used to raise food animals, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service is taking a look at some of the claims made on meat packages, including "antibiotic free." | Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jul 26, 2012 | An NFL salary can afford an athlete plenty of ways to while away the offseason. Will Witherspoon fell into cattle herding. And that lead him to his latest quest — building support for a bill that would ban the use of antibiotics on healthy animals in farming. | Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jul 23, 2012 |
Chefs Highlight Need to End Overuse of Antibiotics in Food Animal Production Celebrity chefs and restaurateurs Suzanne Goin and Mary Sue Milliken, who serve only antibiotic-free meat in their establishments, came to Washington, D.C., on May 15 to tell the Administration and their representatives in Congress to rein in the overuse and misuse of antibiotics in food animal production. |
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| Jul 9, 2012 |
''Antibiotic-free meat and poultry score high in Consumer Reports survey''' Many grocery stores offer at least some meat or poultry that is raised without antibiotics, sometimes at prices below what you would expect. Those meats are popular but shoppers need to be careful with labels that tout "no antibiotics administered" and similar claims. |
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| Jun 28, 2012 | "Consumer Reports, a nonprofit product-testing organization, is urging the largest grocery stores in the nation, starting with Trader Joe's, to stop selling meat and poultry raised on antibiotics." | Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jun 28, 2012 | Some argue that, without antibiotics, the agricultural industry will collapse. Danish scientist Frank Aarestrup begs to differ. Denmark is the world's largest exporter of pork, exporting 90% of all it produces, and it did much more than ban the use of antibiotics for growth. It reduced their usage overall and built a comprehensive surveillance system to track and target overuse. | Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 11, 2012 |
''FDA lays out steps to reduce overuse of antibiotics in animals grown for food'' "The Food and Drug Administration called on drug companies Wednesday to help limit the use of antibiotics given to farm animals, a decades-old practice that scientists say has contributed to a surge in dangerous, drug-resistant bacteria." |
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| Apr 11, 2012 |
''U.S. Tightens Rules on Antibiotics Use for Livestock'' "Farmers and ranchers will for the first time be required to get a prescription from a veterinarian before using antibiotics in cattle, pigs, chickens and other animals, federal food regulators announced on Wednesday ... " |
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| Apr 10, 2012 |
''Stop feeding antibiotics to livestock'' "I was pleased to see the recent editorial ("Troublesome antibiotics," April 3) addressing the widespread practice of feeding antibiotics to livestock ... " |
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| Mar 24, 2012 |
''Court orders FDA action on antibiotic use on farms'' "WASHINGTON (AP) A federal court judge has ordered the Food and Drug Administration to take action on its own 35 year old rule that would stop farmers from mixing popular antibiotics into animal feed ..." |
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| Mar 23, 2012 |
''Court orders FDA to examine antibiotics use on animals'' "A federal court on Thursday ordered the FDA to follow through on a 35 year old proposal that would have banned the use of certain antibiotics in animal feed ... " |
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| Mar 23, 2012 |
''More On Court Ordering FDA Hearings on Farm Antibiotics'' "Since I posted last night on the judge’s order that the Food and Drug Administration examine the safety of farm antibiotics -- via hearings that the FDA scheduled, but never held, back in 1977 -- a lot has happened." |
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| Mar 23, 2012 |
''Steps Set for Livestock Antibiotic Ban'' "The Obama administration must warn drug makers that the government may soon ban agricultural uses of some popular antibiotics that many scientists say encourage the proliferation of dangerous infections and imperil public health ..." |
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| Mar 22, 2012 |
''Breaking News: Judge Orders FDA to Examine Safety of Ag Drugs'' "A district judge in New York has ruled in favor of a coalition that sued the Food and Drug Administration in order to compel the agency to follow through on its 35-year-old attempt to exert control over antibiotics in animal feed known as 'growth promoters' ..." |
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| Jan 4, 2012 |
''FDA: Some Livestock Antibiotics Will Be Limited'' "The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday ordered farmers to limit the use of a type of antibiotics they give livestock because it could make people more resistant to a key antibiotic that can save lives, encouraging news for public health advocates who say such animal antibiotics are overused." |
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| Jan 2, 2012 | On April 11, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a series of measures designed to protect human health from drug-resistant superbugs by curbing the overuse and misuse of antibiotics in meat and poultry production. This is an important step, but two important improvements are needed. | Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Sep 14, 2011 |
''Antibiotic Resistance and the Case for Organic Poultry and Meat'' "Feeding antibiotics to livestock creates an ever-increasing number of resistant bacteria, including many that can harm humans. Yet up to now, no one has been able to say how quickly the damage can be undone by ending this practice or if it can be undone at all." |
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