In the News
In the News
| Date | In The News | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 2011 |
''House GOP pushes back against health measures affecting school lunches, tobacco'' "The Rehberg amendment would also prevent the FDA from restricting the widespread use of antibiotics in feed for farm animals, which many public health experts believe has led to the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that threaten human health." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Mar 31, 2011 |
"ON DECEMBER 11th 1945, at the end of his Nobel lecture, Alexander Fleming sounded a warning. Fleming’s chance observation of the antibiotic effects of a mould called Penicillium on one of his bacterial cultures had inspired his co |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Mar 30, 2011 |
"Since 1995 Denmark has enforced progressively tighter rules on the use of antibiotics in the raising of pigs, poultry and other livestock. In the process, it has shown that it is possible to protect human health without hurting farmers." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jan 25, 2011 |
''Makers of Livestock drugs in talks on restrictions'' "The Food and Drug Administration is asking drug manufacturers to voluntarily restrict the use of antibiotics in hogs and other livestock, and so far the agency has received a 'good response' from the companies, a senior official said today." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jan 21, 2011 |
''Feeding Animals Antibiotics: Not Helping U.S. Meat Export'' "At a 2010 Congressional briefing sponsored by Rep. Louise Slaughter, I warned the continued and routine overuse of antibiotics in U.S. meat production could be shooting the global competitiveness of that industry in the foot." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Dec 30, 2010 |
''Farmers Disagree on Antibiotic Us'' "Cattle farmer Jay Schutte said most dairy farmers are already administering antibiotics responsibly. Schutte feeds out about 600 cattle a year. " |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Dec 14, 2010 |
''Livestock in U.S. gobble up the antibiotics'' "The U.S.-raised animals we eat consumed about 29 million pounds of antibiotics in the last year alone, according to a first-ever Food and Drug Administration accounting of antimicrobial drug use by the American livestock industry." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Dec 27, 2009 | In a five-part series, "When Drugs Stop Working," the Associated Press explores the global issue of drug resistance focusing on how the crisis was created and efforts currently employed to help save the effectiveness of our critical medicines. | Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Aug 20, 2009 |
''America's Food Crisis and How to Fix It'' ''Somewhere in Iowa, a pig is being raised in a confined pen, packed in so tightly with other swine that their curly tails have been chopped off so they won't bite one another.'' |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Aug 19, 2009 |
''The Media Often Ignore the Biggest Disease Threats'' ''Mitchell J. Schwaber and Yehuda Carmeli's 'Don't Forget the Bacterial Threat' (op-ed, Aug. 12) is a good wake-up call for lawmakers, except that it neglects to mention the harmful role that industrial farm animals play in this growing health crisis.'' |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
